Effect of Moistube Fertigation on Infiltration and Distribution of Water-Fertilizer in Mixing Waste Biomass Soil

Guo-rong, Sun; Li, Yilin; Liu, Xiaogang; Cui, Ningbo; Gao, Yanli; Yang, Qiliang

doi:10.3390/su11236757

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“…Grazing intensity had the greatest influence on surface soil moisture content of the grassland [23], while changes at a depth of 40 cm were less obvious. In the process of grassland degradation, above-ground biomass reduced, the effect of vegetation on soil evaporation weakened, and the rainwater infiltration rate decreased.…”

Section: Grazing Significantly Reduced Soil Water Storagementioning

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Light Grazing Significantly Reduces Soil Water Storage in Alpine Grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Guo

Dai

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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The degradation of alpine grasslands directly affects their ability to conserve water, but changes in soil water storage in grassland under different degrees of degradation are poorly understood. Here, we selected four grassland plots along a degradation gradient: no-degradation grassland (NG), lightly degraded grassland (LG), moderately degraded grassland (MG) and severely degraded grassland (SG). We then applied an automatic soil moisture monitoring system to study changes in soil water storage processes. Results revealed significant (p < 0.05) differences in soil water storage among NG, LG, MG and SG. Specifically, LG lost 35.9 mm of soil water storage compared with NG, while soil water storage in LG, MG and SG decreased by 24.5%, 32.1% and 36.7%, respectively. The shallow groundwater table, air temperature and grass litter were the key controlling factors of soil water storage in the grassland. Grazing and future global warming will significantly reduce soil water storage in alpine grasslands.

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Section: Grazing Significantly Reduced Soil Water Storagementioning

confidence: 92%

Light Grazing Significantly Reduces Soil Water Storage in Alpine Grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Guo

Dai

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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“…(2015) Experimental study on influence of water temperature on outflows of low pressure Moistube Moistube +++ I China Shen et al. (2020) Effects of alternate moistube-irrigation on soil water infiltration Moistube +++ I China Sun et al. (2019b) Effect of Moistube Fertigation on Infiltration and Distribution of Water-Fertilizer in Mixing Waste Biomass Soil Moistube +++ I China Sun et al.…”

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Moistube irrigation technology development, adoption and future prospects: A systematic scoping review

Dirwai

Mabhaudhi

Kanda

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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Agriculture is the biggest consumer of fresh water in the world accounting for almost 70% of the water use. The burgeoning world population and increased demands to feed the world requires novel technologies that reconcile water consumption and food security. Moistube is a polymeric semi-permeable membrane irrigation technology that is known to improve water use efficiency and boost yields. The technology is relatively new, hence a lack of comprehensive literature regarding Moistube irrigation (MTI) technology warrants empirical investigation of the existing literature. The study performed a systematic review guided by the Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) and the scoping studies methodological framework to compile an evidence-based literature review on Moistube irrigation. The study performed search queries in the following over-arching and comprehensive databases for grey literature: Google Scholar, Science Direct, Research Gate, CAB direct, All Journals, CNKI, FAO, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and UKZN-EFWE. DistillerSR software was used for screening, data extraction and data charting. Article screening retained one hundred and 55 (n = 155) articles. Forty-nine articles (n = 49) and information sources were found to be related directly and indirectly to Moistube. Moistube articles (n = 29, 59%) were from China were the technology originated. A bulk of literature reported Moistube irrigation use in the arid regions of China. The review revealed areas for research enquiry into the subject matter. Future research areas were fertigation performance under MTI, effects of waste-water on MTI nanopore plugging, yield response of industrial crops of economic importance under MTI and soil wetting geometries under MTI. This signified the need to perform further research enquiries into the subject matter to improve literature availability. Moistube irrigation technology has a low adoption rate in Africa with reported use in South Africa and Morocco. The technology has massive adoption potential in arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Sahara Africa.

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“…Verma et al [53] showed by the effect of water-fertilizer coupling on sugarcane that under deficit irrigation treatment, a reasonable increase of Si fertilizer was beneficial to increase Gs, Tr, and SPAD of sugarcane and could significantly improve the photosynthetic capacity of sugarcane. Li et al [23] identified that increasing fertilizer application significantly improved the photosynthetic capacity and water conductivity of young mango trees, thus improving crop water use efficiency and promoting crop growth, mainly due to the high water and fertilizer content and uniform distribution of crop roots under drip irrigation conditions [54], which allowed the roots to fully absorb water and nutrients and improve crop physiological activity, thereby increasing photosynthetic intensity [55].…”

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Effect of Water-Fertilizer Coupling on the Growth and Physiological Characteristics of Young Apple Trees

Zhou,

Ma,

Zhang

et al. 2023

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China has the largest apple-growing area and fresh fruit production in the world; however, water shortages and low fertilizer utilization rates have restricted agricultural development. It is a major challenge to obtain scientific and reasonable irrigation and fertilization systems for young apple trees in semi-arid regions of northern China. A 2-year field bucket experiment with four irrigation levels of W1 (75–90% Fs, where Fs is the field water holding capacity), W2 (65–80% Fs), W3 (55–70% Fs), and W4 (45–60% Fs), and three fertilizer levels of F1 (27-9-9 g N-P2O5-K2O), F2 (18-9-9 g N-P2O5-K2O), and F3 (9-9-9 g N-P2O5-K2O) was conducted in 2019 and 2020, so as to explore the effects of different water and fertilizer treatments on the growth and physiological characteristics of young apple trees. The results showed that the plant growth, leaf area, and dry matter of young apple trees at each growing period reached maximum values under F1W2, and they showed a positive linear relationship with relative chlorophyll content (SPAD), net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr), stomatal conductance (Gs), water consumption, and water use efficiency (WUE). With the growth of young apple trees, water-fertilizer coupling could significantly increase the leaf SPAD of young apple trees. Pn, Tr, and Gs reached the maximum value under F1W1, and although they decreased under F1W2, the water use efficiency increased by 2.3–25.7% and 4.0–23.8% under F1W2 compared with other treatments in two years, respectively. The water consumption of young apple trees increased with the increase of irrigation and fertilizer, and both dry matter and water productivity reached the maximum value under F1W2, which increased by 0.8%, 14.6% in 2019, and 0.6%, 11.1% in 2020 compared with F1W1, while water consumption decreased by 12.2% and 9.4% in both years. In conclusion, F1W2 treatment (soil moisture was controlled at 65–80% of field water holding capacity, and N-P2O5-K2O was controlled at 27-9-9 g) was the best coupling mode of water and fertilizer for young apple trees in semi-arid areas of northern China.

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Effect of Moistube Fertigation on Infiltration and Distribution of Water-Fertilizer in Mixing Waste Biomass Soil

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Light Grazing Significantly Reduces Soil Water Storage in Alpine Grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Light Grazing Significantly Reduces Soil Water Storage in Alpine Grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Moistube irrigation technology development, adoption and future prospects: A systematic scoping review

Effect of Water-Fertilizer Coupling on the Growth and Physiological Characteristics of Young Apple Trees

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