Evaluation of straw and polythene mulch for enhancing productivity of irrigated summer groundnut

Ghosh, P. K.; Dayal, Devi; Bandyopadhyay, K. K.; Mohanty, M.

doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2006.03.004

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“…Wang et al [28] reported ridge tillage and a full film mulching system in maize cropping efficiently enhanced water retention. Full plastic film mulch led to improvements in soil water content by reducing water loss through evaporation and promoting water infiltration to the subsoil in groundnut cropping [33]. Schwartz et al [34] reported that mulching promoted soil water redistribution under the film after irrigation.…”

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Combined Effects of Mulch and Tillage on Soil Hydrothermal Conditions under Drip Irrigation in Hetao Irrigation District, China

Zhang

Zhou

et al. 2016

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Soil hydrothermal condition is one of the most important factors affecting crop growth in arid regions. This study aimed to investigate the effect of mulching and tillage on moisture and temperature variations in soil under drip irrigation in the arid Hetao Irrigation District, northwest China. Four treatments were included: (1) alternating ridges (40 cm wide and 20 cm high) and furrows (40 cm wide) with plots fully mulched with plastic film (RFM); (2) alternating ridges (40 cm wide and 20 cm high) and furrows (40 cm wide) with partial film mulch (only the plant rows mulched) (RPM); (3) flat tillage with plots fully mulched with plastic film (FFM); and (4) flat tillage with partial film mulch (only the plant rows mulched) (FPM). The ridge tillage and plastic film increased soil temperature and significantly conserved soil water, and thus increased the maize yield and water use efficiency (WUE). The RFM treatment had a greater effect than the RPM, FFM, and FPM treatments on the soil moisture and water storage over 0-70 cm in depth during the entire growing period in 2014 and 2015, indicating that full transparent plastic film mulch increased soil water status and promoted deep water percolation, and ridge tillage further enhanced water redistribution to deep soils. Furthermore, RFM proportionally increased soil temperature by 0.36 • C, 1.49 • C, and 1.27 • C above the temperatures under RPM, FPM, and FFM, respectively, in 2014 and by 1.19 • C, 1.62 • C, and 0.35 • C, respectively, in 2015. During the drought year of 2014, tillage influenced temperature more than mulching; however, mulching played a more important role in preserving thermal conditions than tillage during the humid year of 2015. Consequently, RFM increased the maize yield and WUE significantly. We conclude that a combined system of full plastic film mulch and ridge tillage creates beneficial soil hydrothermal conditions under drip irrigation and thus promotes the growth and performance of field crops.

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Combined Effects of Mulch and Tillage on Soil Hydrothermal Conditions under Drip Irrigation in Hetao Irrigation District, China

Zhang

Zhou

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“…A significant increase in rooting depth in soils with definite hard subsoils can be attained by deep tillage. Because of the high cost of the operation, it is usually recommended only in most dense soil areas (Martínez et al, 2012).The use of the surface organic mulch diminishes soil temperature due to low thermal conductivity (Khan et al, 2000), favourably influences the water content by controlling evaporation from the soil surface and absorbing water vapour onto mulch tissue (Mulumba and Lal, 2008;Sekhon et al, 2010), and aggregation of soil particles (Jordan et al, 2010; Kêsik et al, 2010) affects the quantity of rainwater entering the soil and evaporation (Ghosh et al, 2006) and crop yield (Siczek and Lipiec, 2011). Furthermore, mulch significantly increases symbiotic nitrogen fixation as measured by nitrogenase activity, nodule diameter, and dry weight (Siczek and Lipiec, 2011).…”

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Effect of drought and heat stresses on plant growth and yield: a review

Lipiec¹,

Doussan²,

Nosalewicz³

et al. 2013

International Agrophysics

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A b s t r a c t. Drought and heat stresses are important threat limitations to plant growth and sustainable agriculture worldwide. Our objective is to provide a review of plant responses and adaptations to drought and elevated temperature including roots, shoots, and final yield and management approaches for alleviating adverse effects of the stresses based mostly on recent literature. The sections of the paper deal with plant responses including root growth, transpiration, photosynthesis, water use efficiency, phenotypic flexibility, accumulation of compounds of low molecular mass (eg proline and gibberellins), and expression of some genes and proteins for increasing the tolerance to the abiotic stresses. Soil and crop management practices to alleviate negative effects of drought and heat stresses are also discussed. Investigations involving determination of plant assimilate partitioning, phenotypic plasticity, and identification of most stress-tolerant plant genotypes are essential for understanding the complexity of the responses and for future plant breeding. The adverse effects of drought and heat stress can be mitigated by soil management practices, crop establishment, and foliar application of growth regulators by maintaining an appropriate level of water in the leaves due to osmotic adjustment and stomatal performance.K e y w o r d s: water stress, high temperature, root and shoot growth, tolerance mechanisms, management practices INTRODUCTIONPlants are frequently exposed to drought and heat stresses that reduce crop yield worldwide. The combined effect of both heat and drought on yield of many crops is stronger than the effects of each stress alone (Dreesen et al., 2012;Rollins et al., 2013).Agricultural water deficit arises from both insufficient rainfall and soil water during the growing season to sustain a high crop yield (Sekhon et al., 2010;Vadez et al., 2011;2012;). Projections show an increase in intense rain events and at the same time reduction in the number of rain days that leads to increased risk of drought (Trenberth, 2011;Vadez et al., 2011). Therefore, under rainfed conditions water scarcity is one of the most widespread limitations to crop production.A period of dry weather, injurious to crops, is often defined as 'drought' that is related to changes in soil and meteorological conditions and not with plant and tissue hydration. Drought stress occurs when the humidity of the soil and the relative air humidity are low and the ambient temperature is high.Predisposition of plants to maintain a high potential of water in the tissues under drought is called dehydration avoidance, and tolerance that determines plant predisposition to survive water deficiency is called drought resistance (Blum, 2005;Vadez et al., 2011). Molecular biologists often report the effect of an exotic gene towards 'drought tolerance' and advertise its expected value in breeding (Blum, 2005).Heat stress or heat wave is defined as the rise in temperature beyond a threshold level for a period sufficient to cause permanent ...

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“…Polyethylene mulch could have positively affected the temperature of the soil (Ghosh et al, 2006) and reduced evaporation (Li et al, 2013), which created more favourable conditions for the mineralization of organic matter and release of higher amounts of mineral N, than was the case with straw mulch. Our results are in agreement with those of Neuweiler et al (2003), who also found a significantly lower mineral N concentration on straw mulched plots than on those covered with polyethylene mulch.…”

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Mulch type and application of manure and composts in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) production: impact on soil fertility and yield

Čabilovski

Manojlović

Bogdanović

et al. 2014

Zemdirbyste-Agriculture

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The objective of this research was to quantify the effect of the application of organic fertilizers: farmyard manure, vermicompost, spent mushroom compost, under two different ground cover management systems (black polyethylene and wheat straw mulch) on soil nutrient levels and strawberry yield during a two-year production cycle. The application of organic fertilizers, in the amounts equivalent to 170 kg ha -1 N, had the greatest impact on the concentration of available phosphorus, which was significantly higher on fertilized plots than on the control even two years after the application. The plots fertilized with farmyard manure and mushroom compost had higher concentrations of available potassium than the control, while the application of vermicompost did not affect the concentration of available potassium in the soil. The application of composts did not affect the concentration of available microelements in the soil, while the concentrations of Fe, Zn and Cu in the year of the organic fertilizers application were significantly higher on farmyard manure fertilized plots than on the control. The application of all three organic fertilizers had a significant effect on the mineral N concentration in the soil only in the year of the application and the following spring. However, the plots covered with polyethylene mulch had a higher mineral N concentration than the control at all sampling times. The concentration of available microelements was significantly higher in soil covered with black polyethylene mulch than in soil covered with straw mulch. Preplant application of organic fertilizers led to increase of yield, ranging from 14.3% in vermicompost treatmet to 17.3% in the farmyard manure treatment in relation to the control, only in the 1 st fruiting year. However, the application of polyethylene mulch facilitated a higher strawberry yield than straw mulch in both fruiting years.

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Evaluation of straw and polythene mulch for enhancing productivity of irrigated summer groundnut

Cited by 200 publications

References 9 publications

Combined Effects of Mulch and Tillage on Soil Hydrothermal Conditions under Drip Irrigation in Hetao Irrigation District, China

Combined Effects of Mulch and Tillage on Soil Hydrothermal Conditions under Drip Irrigation in Hetao Irrigation District, China

Effect of drought and heat stresses on plant growth and yield: a review

Mulch type and application of manure and composts in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) production: impact on soil fertility and yield

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