Effect of irrigation amounts applied with subsurface drip irrigation on corn evapotranspiration, yield, water use efficiency, and dry matter production in a semiarid climate

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 895-908

  Payero, José O ^a   Tarkalson, David D ^b   Irmak, Suat ^c   Davison, Don ^d   Petersen, James L ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Deficit irrigation; Dry matter; Evapotranspiration (ET); Harvest index; Maize; Subsurface drip irrigation (SDI); Water stress; Water use efficiency; Yield response factor (ky)

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CURING; DRYING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; REUSABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SUBIRRIGATION; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER SUPPLY;

APPLIED (CO); CROP RESPONSES; DRY MATTER PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT; SEMI-ARID CLIMATES; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER BALANCE; SUBSURFACE DRIP (SSD) IRRIGATION; WATER USES; WATER-USE EFFICIENCY (WUE); ZEA MAYS L.;

IRRIGATION;

CROP YIELD; DRIP IRRIGATION; DRY MATTER; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IRRIGATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MAIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; YIELD RESPONSE;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 47349088843     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.02.015     Document Type: Article

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