The Effect of Drip Irrigation on the Length and Distribution of Apple Tree Roots
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00027006%3A_____%2F23%3A10176478" target="_blank" >RIV/00027006:_____/23:10176478 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/25271121:_____/23:N0000126
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/3/405/pdf?version=1679471514" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/3/405/pdf?version=1679471514</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae9030405" target="_blank" >10.3390/horticulturae9030405</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Effect of Drip Irrigation on the Length and Distribution of Apple Tree Roots
Original language description
In a three-year experiment (2019-2021), the roots of 7-year-old apple trees (Malus domestica cv. 'Red Jonaprince') grown under drip irrigation were studied. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of irrigation on root density at different depths and distances from the trunk. The working hypothesis assumed that irrigation significantly affects the total length of apple roots. The irrigation treatments corresponding to the calculated water evapotranspiration (ET100), 50% of the calculated ET (ET50), a control (ET0, no irrigation, under rainfed conditions), and a treatment using double-drip lines (2Drops) were monitored. Soil cores were collected in spring and autumn. The total length of the roots (TRLt) and the length of new vital roots (TRLv) to a depth of 80 cm were evaluated. The effects of treatments were mostly insignificant for the TRLt; only in the dry season in 2019 were the TRLt values of the irrigated treatments (ET50 and ET100) significantly higher, 18.67 km center dot m(-2) and 17.45 km center dot m(-2), in comparison to 11.16 km center dot m(-2) for the ET0, at a 10 cm distance from the tree trunk. The irrigation treatments had a statistically significant effect on the TRLv values near the trunk in 2019 and 2020, while in autumn 2020 and 2021, irrigation significantly affected the TRLv at greater distances from the tree trunk. In summary, the irrigation treatments mostly had no significant effect on the total root length. However, an effect of irrigation on the root length of new vital roots was observed at certain sampling dates and distances from the trunk.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/QK1910165" target="_blank" >QK1910165: Modern practices in irrigation regime of fruit trees grown in water deficit conditions</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Horticulturae
ISSN
2311-7524
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
405
UT code for WoS article
000955576200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85151245204