Abstract:
Objective Investigating the influence of aerated irrigation during the Emergence stage on the growth, yield and fiker quality of Cotton Cultivated with dry Sowing and wet emergence technique.
Methods Using cotton Xinluzhong 54 as the research object, two aerated and three emergence water gradients were set up, and six treatments were designed in a full-combination experiment to monitor the emergence rate, stem thickness, plant height, dry matter accumulation, leaf area index, yield quality, and irrigation water productivity of dry sowing and wet seedling cotton fields.
Results Compared with non-aerated irrigation treatment, the stem diameter of aerated irrigation treatment increased by 10.22%~44.36% and 4.10%~11.72%, respectively both at seedling stage and bud stage, the plant height increased by 3.09%~26.44% and 8.39%~30.91%, respectively, the dry matter accumulation increased by 3.5%~27.03% and 4.80%~31.28%, respectively. And leaf area index increased by 4.17%~36.79% and 4.78%~37.5%, respectively, The growth advantage of seedling stage and bud stage was obvious, but it had no effect at flowering, bolformation and boll opening stages. The stem diameter, dry matter accumulation and leaf area index of WP2 treatment were the largest in different treatments, and the plant height of WP3 treatment was the highest. Under the same irrigation amount, the effective number of bolls per plant, single boll weight, seed cotton yield and irrigation water production efficiency of WP2 treatment were higher than those of other treatments, which were 10.46, 5.62 g, 5943 kg/hm2 and 1.54 kg/hm3, respectively. The yield increase effect was higher than those of other treatments, and the irrigation water production efficiency was also the highest. The average length and breaking strength of the upper half of WP2 treatment were the highest among all treatments, but there was no significant difference in micronaire, uniformity and elongation among different treatments.
Conclusion Considering the combined effects of the treatments on cotton plant growth characteristics, yield, quality and irrigation water productivity, the WP2 treatment is the preferred water-air irrigation mode under the conditions of this experiment.