A COMPUTER CONTROLLED IRRIGATION OF POTTED CHRYSANTHEMUM GROWN AT OUTDOOR CONDITIONS
Journal Title: Current Trends in Natural Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
A rapid and reliable method to estimate water requirements for chrysanthemum production with practical applications to commercial operations was developed to promote water conservation. A water-requirement prediction equation (R2 = 0.71) that used class A pan evaporation along with plant-canopy height and width as input variables was generated. Equation verification was carried out by comparing vegetative growth and quality of crops irrigated according to the generated water-requirement equation to crops irrigated based on demand and conservative fixed daily irrigation regimes. Vegetation growth of the plants irrigated with the generated equation was smaller than plants grown by demand irrigation, but plant quality was not significantly different. Applied water was significantly lower for plants irrigated with the generated equation than would normally be applied in a commercial operation using a conservative fixed daily irrigation rate. The study showed that there was a close relationship between chrysanthemum water requirements and the plant and evaporative data. A simplified ET equation involving plant characteristics and evaporative data could be used in the irrigation scheduling of chrysanthemum grown under restricted root volume.
Authors and Affiliations
Halil Kirnak
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP25062
- DOI -
- Views 307
- Downloads 10
ASPECTS REGARDING LEGAL PROTECTION OF SOIL RESOURCES
Along with specialty items used for the development and implementation of sustainable development, protection and conservation of the environment, legal protection component of soil resources play an essential role. Leg...
EFFECT OF PHENOL INTOXICATION ON SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF PERCA FLUVIATILIS AND PELOPHYLAX RIDIBUNDUS
A significant interest to phenols and their derivatives is connected with the fact that these compounds play an important role in human industrial activity and are widely spread in our environment. In the present paper...
BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS, COMPOSITION AND POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF CYNARA SCOLYMUS L.
Nature represents an inexhaustible resource for human people’s health and care. In the last couple of years, medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) became one of the main research fields in Romania due to their therapeuti...
THE ROLE OF BETABLOCKERS IN LOWERING THE RISK OF CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED HEART FAILURE IN BREAST CANCER
Anthracyclines and molecular targeted therapy, pharmacologic agents currently used in breast cancer, are potentially cardiotoxic, leading to cardiac dysfunction, and even to overt heart failure. This paper reviews the a...
HIGHLIGHTING OF SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL BACTERIAL GROUPS ISOLATED FROM DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, AREA ROŞU, ROŞULEŢ AND PUIU LAKES
Industrialization and the socio-economic conditions, as well as the human standards changing from the last few decades, led to increased pollution degree including the discharge area of he Danube River in the Black Sea....