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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2015, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (05): 778-786.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2015.00778

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Effects of Plastic Mulching and Irrigation on Yield of Corn in Arid Oasis Irrigation Area

YU Ai-Zhong,CHAI Qiang*   

  1. Key Laboratory of Arid Land Crop Science in Gansu Province/College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • Received:2014-10-13 Revised:2015-02-06 Online:2015-05-12 Published:2015-03-04
  • Contact: 柴强, E-mail: Chaiq@gsau.edu.cn, Tel: 0931-7631104 E-mail:yuaizh@gsau.edu.cn

Abstract:

The knowledge on coupling effect of plastic film mulching and limited water supply on corn yield in inland irrigation area is essential in developing effective cropping systems. A field experiment was conducted to reveal yield formation process and mechanism of corn under different plastic film mulching patterns (full-film, half-film and no mulching) and irrigation quota treatments (7200, 6450, and 5700 m3 ha-1) in Shiyanghe River Basin of Gansu Hexi Corridor. The results showed that plastic film mulching patterns and irrigation levels had significant effect on grain yield, harvest index, double-ear rate, seed number per ear, seed weight and water use efficiency(WUE). The grain yield reached 13 275.5 and 12 880.5 kg ha-1 under full-film mulching with high and moderate irrigation levels, respectively, which was 7.0% to 31.0% higher than that under half-film mulching and no mulching with the same irrigation level.The WUE reached 16.9 kg mm-1 hm-2 under full-film mulching treatment, which was 12.7% and 6.3% higher than that under half-film mulching and no mulching treatments respectively.Full-film mulching with high irrigation level had the greatest double-ear rate, seed number per ear and seed weight, which were 23.9%, 658.6 per ear and 36.4 g per 100 grain respectively. The average leaf area index (LAI) achieved 2.8 and 2.7 under full-film and half-film mulching with high irrigation level, respectively, which were significantly higher than that with low irrigation level. Moreover, soil water content in the soil layer from 0 to 30 cm and accumulated soil temperature of 0 to 25 cm was up to 23.9% and 3717.9°C, which was significantly higher than that in other treatments. It can be concluded that plastic film mulching increased the grain yield by improving seed number per ear and seed weight, resulting from the enhancement of double-ear rate and average LAI due to improving soil thermal characteristics.

Key words: Plastic film mulching, Yield, Soil water, Accumulated soil temperature, LAI

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