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Aug 7, 2024

Effects of Air–Water Interaction on Water Consumption, Fruit Yield, and Quality of Drip-Irrigated Processing Tomatoes

Authors: Jianli Zhang [email protected], Rui Chen [email protected], Jinzhu Zhang, Ph.D. [email protected], and Zhenhua Wang, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-7662 [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 150, Issue 5
https://doi.org/10.1061/JIDEDH.IRENG-10214
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Abstract

To seek the optimal combination of water–air for drip irrigation processing tomatoes in Northern Xinjiang, China, field experiments consisted of four irrigation levels, and two types of gas-filling methods were proposed. Throughout the whole growth period, the water consumption by physical aeration and chemical aeration increased by 13.65% and 9.27%, respectively compared with the nonaerated treatment. Under the conditions of physical aeration, the processing tomato fruit yield and irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) increased by 8.14% and 4.74%; while by chemical aeration, they increased by 7.91% and 4.61%, respectively. Physical aeration had the most prominent role in increasing the contents of organic acid, soluble solids, soluble sugar, lycopene, and VC in processing tomatoes. The presented indicators show that the effect of physical aeration was better than that of chemical aeration. Physical aeration in combination with different irrigation levels, the 4,950  m3·hm−2 irrigation level gave the highest yield of processing tomato, whereas the highest IWUE was obtained in the 4,500  m3·hm−2 irrigation treatment, and the quality parameters of processing tomatoes at the 4,500  m3·hm−2 irrigation level performed better than those at the 4,950  m3·hm−2 irrigation level. To take into account the requirements of processing tomatoes for maximum IWUE and fruit yield and quality, the entropy weight method was used to determine that the irrigation water volume of 4,500  m3·hm−2 under the conditions of physical aeration can be used as a suitable water and air combination pattern for processing tomatoes in drip irrigation in Northern Xinjiang.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Corps Water-saving Irrigation Pilot Project (BTJSSY-201907). The Innovation Team Project in Key Areas of Corps (2019CB004), the National Key R&D Program “Research and Application of Cash Crop Water and Fertilizer Integration Technology Model” (2017YFD0201506).

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Received: Jun 10, 2023
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ASCE Technical Topics:

  1. Aeration
  2. Air pollution
  3. Air quality
  4. Continuum mechanics
  5. Engineering mechanics
  6. Entrainment
  7. Environmental engineering
  8. Fluid dynamics
  9. Fluid mechanics
  10. Hydraulic engineering
  11. Hydrodynamics
  12. Hydrologic engineering
  13. Irrigation
  14. Irrigation engineering
  15. Irrigation water
  16. Pollution
  17. Trickle irrigation
  18. Water (by type)
  19. Water and water resources
  20. Water management
  21. Water quality
  22. Water supply
  23. Water treatment
  24. Water use

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Jianli Zhang [email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate, College of Water and Architectural Engineering, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Modern Water-Saving Irrigation of Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Northwest Oasis Water-Saving Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PR China, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China. Email: [email protected]
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Rui Chen [email protected]
Ph.D. Candidate, College of Water and Architectural Engineering, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Modern Water-Saving Irrigation of Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Northwest Oasis Water-Saving Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PR China, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China. Email: [email protected]
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Jinzhu Zhang, Ph.D. [email protected]
Professor, College of Water and Architectural Engineering, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Modern Water-Saving Irrigation of Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Northwest Oasis Water-Saving Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PR China, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China (corresponding author). Email: [email protected]
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Zhenhua Wang, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-7662 [email protected]
Professor, College of Water and Architectural Engineering, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Modern Water-Saving Irrigation of Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops, Shihezi Univ., Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China; Key Laboratory of Northwest Oasis Water-Saving Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, PR China, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832000, China. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-7662. Email: [email protected]
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