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Effects of Tillage Regimes on Water Consumption and Dry Matter Accumulation in Dryland Wheat

WANG Hong-Guang, YU Zhen-Wen, ZHANG Yong-Li*,SHI Yu,WANG Dong   

  1. Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture / Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an 271018, China
  • Received:2011-09-01 Revised:2012-01-19 Online:2012-04-12 Published:2012-02-13
  • Contact: 张永丽, E-mail: zhangyl@sdau.edu.cn, Tel: 0538-8247828

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Abstract: The area of dryland wheat is large in Huang-Huai-Hai Rivers region, where grain yield of wheat was low and unstable because of deficient and variable precipitation. Conservation tillage is an important cultivation mode to stimulate crop production and has been a hotspot in cultivation research of winter wheat. Minimum tillage and no-tillage are believed to significantly increase grain yield and water use efficiency of dryland wheat. A field experiment was conducted to study the effects of tillage modes on water consumption and dry matter accumulation of wheat in hill area of Shandong Province in 2009–2010 and 2010–2011 growing seasons. Compared to strip rotary tillage (SR), rotary tillage after subsoiling (RS), and rotary tillage (R) treatments, strip rotary tillage after subsoiling (SRS) treatment was beneficial to reduce water consumption amount from sowing to pre-winter stage, increase water consumption amount from anthesis to maturity stage, and promote the ratio of water consumption after anthesis to the total water consumption. The water reduction amount in 0–20 cm soil layer was lower in SRS treatment than in RS and R treatments from sowing to jointing, while that in 40–160 cm soil layer was higher in SRS treatment than in SR and R treatments from jointing to maturity.In the whole growing period of 2009–2010 and seedling, anthesis, and filling stages of 2010–2011, the evaporation of SRS was lower than that of RS or R treatment, which was equivalent to that of SR with no significant difference. SRS treatment had the highest dry matter accumulation amount from anthesis to maturity stage. Compared to SR and R treatments, SRS treatment had higher water consumption amount and water use efficiency. There was no significant difference between SRS and SR treatments in water consumption and water use efficiency, but the grain yield was the highest in SRS treatment. Therefore, SRS treatment is considered as the best tillage treatment under the experimental condition.

Key words: Tillage, Winter wheat, Water consumption amount, Evaporation, Dry matter accumulation amount

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