Abstract
Uniform stand establishment is essential for profitable cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.) production in saline fields. This study was conducted during 2003 and 2004 to determine if furrow‐bed seeding and plastic mulching improve stand establishment and cotton lint yield in a saline field. The experiment was arranged in a split‐plot design with seeding patterns (flat‐seeded and furrow‐seeded) as main plots and mulching (with or without plastic mulching) as subplots. The effects of seeding patterns, mulching, and their interactions on root‐zone salinity, soil temperature, stand establishment, and lint yield were monitored. Furrow seeding reduced the root‐zone salinity, while plastic mulching both reduced salinity and increased soil temperatures. As a result, furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulching increased stand establishment and lint yield by 103 and 25% in 2003, and 92 and 22% in 2004, compared with flat‐seeded cotton without mulching, respectively. Plastic mulching and furrow seeding also enhanced earliness as indicated by the percentage of the first two harvests. Physiological assay 30 d after seeding (DAS) showed that plastic mulching and furrow seeding substantially reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues, inhibited peroxidation of lipids, and improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn) and dry matter production. The overall results suggest that use of plastic mulching plus furrow‐bed seeding would be a suitable cultural practice for enhancing cotton production in saline soils.
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Claims 13
Claim · model-written summary
Furrow seeding reduced root-zone salinity.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- Furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- root‐zone salinitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Furrow seeding reduced the root‐zone salinity”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching reduced root-zone salinity.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- salinitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plastic mulching both reduced salinity and increased soil temperatures”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching increased soil temperatures.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- soil temperaturese0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plastic mulching both reduced salinity and increased soil temperatures”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased stand establishment in 2003 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- stand establishmente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 103e0
- Qualifier
- 2003e0
- Comparator
- flat‐seeded cotton without mulchinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulching increased stand establishment and lint yield by 103 and 25% in 2003, and 92 and 22% in 2004, compared with flat‐seeded cotton without mulching, respectively”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased lint yield in 2003 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- lint yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 25%e0
- Qualifier
- 2003e0
- Comparator
- flat‐seeded cotton without mulchinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulching increased stand establishment and lint yield by 103 and 25% in 2003, and 92 and 22% in 2004, compared with flat‐seeded cotton without mulching, respectively”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased stand establishment in 2004 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- stand establishmente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 92e0
- Qualifier
- 2004e0
- Comparator
- flat‐seeded cotton without mulchinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulching increased stand establishment and lint yield by 103 and 25% in 2003, and 92 and 22% in 2004, compared with flat‐seeded cotton without mulching, respectively”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Furrow seeding with plastic mulch increased lint yield in 2004 versus flat seeding without mulch.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulchinge0
- Outcome
- lint yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 22%e0
- Qualifier
- 2004e0
- Comparator
- flat‐seeded cotton without mulchinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“furrow‐seeded cotton under plastic mulching increased stand establishment and lint yield by 103 and 25% in 2003, and 92 and 22% in 2004, compared with flat‐seeded cotton without mulching, respectively”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching and furrow seeding enhanced crop earliness.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- Plastic mulching and furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- earlinesse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Qualifier
- percentage of the first two harvestse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plastic mulching and furrow seeding also enhanced earliness as indicated by the percentage of the first two harvests”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching and furrow seeding reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulching and furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissuese0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plastic mulching and furrow seeding substantially reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues, inhibited peroxidation of lipids, and improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn) and dry matter production”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching and furrow seeding inhibited peroxidation of lipids.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulching and furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- peroxidation of lipidse0
- Direction
- inhibitede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plastic mulching and furrow seeding substantially reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues, inhibited peroxidation of lipids, and improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn) and dry matter production”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching and furrow seeding improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn).
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulching and furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- leaf photosynthesis (Pn)e0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plastic mulching and furrow seeding substantially reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues, inhibited peroxidation of lipids, and improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn) and dry matter production”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic mulching and furrow seeding improved dry matter production.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Treatment
- plastic mulching and furrow seedinge0
- Outcome
- dry matter productione0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plastic mulching and furrow seeding substantially reduced Na + accumulation both in root and leaf tissues, inhibited peroxidation of lipids, and improved leaf photosynthesis (Pn) and dry matter production”
t0“Cotton”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend plastic mulching with furrow-bed seeding for cotton production in saline soils.
- Taxon
- CottonGossypium hirsutumt0
- Outcome
- use of plastic mulching plus furrow‐bed seedinge0
- Qualifier
- in saline soilse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“use of plastic mulching plus furrow‐bed seeding would be a suitable cultural practice for enhancing cotton production in saline soils”
t0“Cotton”
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