The Effect of Converting Furrow Irrigation to Drip on Water Consumption, WUE and Growth Traits of Sultana Grapevine

Authors

1 Departman of agronomy, grape faculty, malayer university, hamedan, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Faculty of agriculture, Bu Ali University

3 Associate Professor College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, Qazvin, Iran

4 Assistant Professor Faculty of Agriculture, Malayer university, Malayer, Hamedan

5 Assistant Professor Faculty of science, Malayer university, Malayer, Hamedan,

Abstract

In order to evaluate switching the furrow to drip irrigation methods on stem length, WUE and depth of root zone of Sultana grapevines, an experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with four replications in 2015-2016 growing season. Treatments of experiment were including furrow (I1), compound of drip and furrow irrigation (I2), bubbler irrigation (I3), drip irrigation 1 (I4), compound of surface and sub-surface drip irrigation (I5), drip irrigation 2 (I6) and drip irrigation 3 (I7). The results showed that the drip irrigation treatments cause decreasing the stem length, leaf area and water consumption compared to the furrow irrigation significantly; Thereby, the average of parameters which are including stem length, leaf area in a vine and irrigation volume are 133 cm, 11.1 m2/vine and 5337m3/ha, respectively, these mentioned parameters for drip irrigation systems are 121 cm, 6.5 m2/vine and 3625 m3/ha, individually. The results indicated that there was positive correlation (R2) between the mentioned parameters. The treatments of I6 and I7 had respectively 31 and 29 ton/ha yield and more than furrow irrigation with 24 ton/ha; However, the other drip irrigation treatments showed less yield than furrow irrigation. The maximum and minimum of water used efficiency (WUE) belonged to I6 treatment with 10.3 kg/m3 and the I1 with 4.9 kg/m3 respectively. . In the end of experiment, taken samples from the vine roots revealed drip irrigation systems caused to create shallow root.

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