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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2014, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (10): 1787-1796.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2014.01787

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Effect of Straw Mulching on Soil Temperature, Soil Moisture and Spring Maize Yield under Seedling Strip Subsoiling

LI Jing-Jing1, 2,LI Cong-Feng2,*,LI Lian-Lu1,DING Zai-Song2,ZHAO Ming2,*   

  1. 1 College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; 2 Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences / Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2014-02-11 Revised:2014-07-06 Online:2014-10-12 Published:2014-08-04
  • Contact: 赵明, E-mail: zhaomingcau@163.net, Tel: 010-82108752; 李从锋, E-mail: licongfeng@caas.cn, Tel: 010-82106043

Abstract:

No-tillage with straw mulching is widely adopted in arid and semi-arid regions of North China which effectively preserves the water content. But it decreases the soil temperature and results in seed germination delaying. We developed a new way of no-tillage with straw mulching. The straw mulching was conducted only in the wide inter-row, and subsoiling was conducted in the narrow inter-row. To determine the quantity and method of straw mulching in this new no-tillage way, we conducted field experiments in 2012 and 2013 in Langfang, Hebei Province. The maize cultivar Zhengdan 958 was planted with 80 cm+40 cm inter-row planting spacing. The treatments of wide inter-row included mulching with 8.42 t ha-1 of chopped straw (100SC) and prostrated straw (100SP), 4.21 t ha-1 of chopped straw (50SC) and prostrated straw (50SP), with no straw mulching as CK. Soil temperature, soil moisture, emergence quality, days of growth period, dry matter accumulation, yield and its components were compared among these treatments. The results showed that the soil moisture were increased in all the four straw mulching treatments. The 50SC treatment had the least influence on decreasing soil temperature compared with CK. The emergence uniformity of all straw mulching treatments increased significantly. Straw mulching had less significant effects on duration from sowing to seedling. Above-ground biomass of 50SC was improved, and its dry matter accumulation was promoted at post-anthesis stage. Compared with CK, the yield of 50SC was increased by 4.78%, and 1000-kernel weight and kernel weight per ear by 10.9% and 6.5%, respectively. The yield of 50SC had very significant correlation with its whole period dry matter accumulation (DMA) and ratio of post-anthesis to pre-anthesis DMA. Therefore, the mulching technique in this study has less physical constraint to emergence, and in this new way of straw mulching 4.21 t ha-1 of chopped straw mulching is better for maize. With this condition, the adverse effects of straw on emergence are alleviated and dry matter accumulation in later period and yield of maize are increased.

Key words: Maize growth, Straw mulching quantity, Straw mulching method, Soil temperature and moisture, Yield

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