Effect of Irrigation Water Amount and Planting Pattern on Water Use and Yield of Cotton in Northern Xinjiang, China
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 149, Issue 3
Abstract
This study aimed to clarify the effect of irrigation water amount and planting pattern on water use and yield of cotton in Northern Xinjiang. A field experiment was conducted during 2020–2021 comprising four irrigation water amounts (360, 450, 540, and 630 mm) and two planting patterns (same row spacing, R1; and wide-narrow row planting, R2). The results showed that the evapotranspiration (), soil evaporation (), and plant transpiration () of cotton under both planting patterns increased with the increasing irrigation amount. During the entire growth period, the annual average daily and under R2 were higher than those under R1, but the annual average daily under R2 were lower than those under R1. The daily was highest between one and four days after irrigation. The under R1 was approximately 27.45%–31.82%, and that under R2 was approximately 24.52%–28.56% under the four irrigation treatments. The relationship between the and leaf area index was fitted based on an exponential equation (). The yield increased with an increase in the irrigation amount, although there was no significant difference between the yields obtained with 540 mm and 630 mm irrigation amounts. The water use efficiency (WUE) increased first and then decreased with an increase in irrigation water amount, with the highest WUE observed under the 540 mm condition and the lowest under the 630 mm condition.
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the Project of Renovation Capacity Building for the Young Sci-Tech Talents Sponsored by the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (xjnkq-2019011); Science and Technology Supporting Xinjiang project by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2020E02098); Science and Technology Innovation Project by Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (nkyzzkj-016); and Special funds guided by the central government and local governments in 2021 (the second batch). The authors also thank the anonymous reviewers for their critical comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript. We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.cn) for English language editing. Jie Li and Tengfei Ma contributed equally to this manuscript.
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Received: Apr 3, 2022
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