Influence of irrigation management as partial rootzone drying on raspberry canes
Keywords:
raspberry, Rubus idaeus, water stress, PRDAbstract
The effects of partial rootzone drying (PRD) compared with other irrigation systems, namely 100% of evapotranspiration as control, two laterals, side lateral and without irrigation were evaluated in fi eld-grown raspberry canes (cv. Polka) for the vegetative and productive response after applied water stress – PRD and mulching. The experiment was conducted in Kosovo during the years 2014, 2015 and 2016 on raspberry orchard of 1 ha using a nested experimental design. Per four levels of irrigation, for each treatment contained 10 plants, of which five plants per treatment were mulched to a 10 cm layer of wood chips. During the third year of experiment using ANOVA we found significant changes in a series of vegetative and productive indices. Irrigation had significant changes on number of leaves, leaf surface and area, LAI, shoot length, number of fruit, fruit diameter, fruit length, fruit weight and total yield. It should also be stressed that mulching had significant changes in number of leaves, leaf surface and area, LAI, fruit length, fruit weight and total yield. Our results confirmed that a moderate water stress reducing vegetative growth while total yield the highest values were found in two laterals. PRD can be successfully applied to raspberry orchard to reduce vegetative growth and increase total yield, too with significant water saving.
References
Allen, R. G., Pereira, L. S., Raes, D., & Smith, M. (1998). Crop evapotranspiration: Guidelines for computing crop water requirements. FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56. Fao, Rome.
Davies, W. J., Bacon, M. A., Stuart Thompson, D., Sobeih, W., & González Rodríguez, L. (2000). Regulation of leaf and fruit growth in plants growing in drying soil: exploitation of the plants’ chemical signal system and hydraulic architecture to increase the effi ciency of water use in agriculture. Journal of Experimental Botany, 51(350), 1617-1626.
Dry, P.R., Loveys, B. R., Botting, D., & Düring, H. (1996). Effects of partial root-zone drying on grapevine vigour, yield, composition of fruit and use of water. In Proc. 9th Aust. Wine Ind. Techn. Conf., Adelaide, Australia, 1996, 126-131.
Dry, P. R., & Loveys, B. R. (1998). Factors infl uencing grapevine vigour and the potential for control with partial rootzone drying. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 4(3), 140148.
Dry, P. R., Loveys, B. R., Stoll, M., Steward, D., & McCarthy M. G. (2000). Partial Rootzone Drying – an update. Australian Grape grower and Winemaker, 438a, 35-39.
Fereres, E., & Soriano, M. A. (2006). Defi cit irrigation for reducing agricultural water use. Journal of Experimental Botany, 58(2), 147-159.
Funt, R. C., & Ross, D. S. (2013). Soil and water management. In: Raspberries, Crop Production Science in Horticulture, CABI, series, 23, 103-119.
Grant, O. M., Stoll, M., & Jones, H. G. (2004). Partial rootzone drying does not affect fruit yield of raspberries. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 79(1), 125-130.
Greenly, K. M., & Rakow, D. A. (1995). The effect of wood mulch type and depth on weed and tree growth and certain soil parameters. Journal of Arboriculture, 21, 225-225.
Kullaj, E. (2007). Advanced Biology of Fruit Crops. FBM. UBT. Tirana, Albania, 313 pp. (in Albanian).
Lepaja, L., Kullaj, E., Lepaja, K., & Zajmi, A. (2015a). Effects of regulated defi cit irrigation, mulching and their combination on fruit diameter growth of young ‘William’pears. In Proceedings. 50th Croatian and 10th International Symposium on Agriculture. 16-20 February, 2015, Opatija, Croatia. p.580-584.
Lepaja, L., Kullaj, E., Lepaja, K., & Zajmi, A. (2015b). Vegetative and productive response of young ‚Williams’ pear trees to regulated defi cit irrigation (RDI), mulching and their combinations. Acta Hortic. 1094, 351-356.
Loveys, B. R., Dry, P. R., Stoll, M., & McCarthy, M. G. (2000). Using plant physiology to improve the water use effi ciency of horticultural crops. Acta Hort., 537, 187-199.
Marsal, J., Mata, M., Arbonés, A., Rufat, J., & Girona, J. (2002). Regulated defi cit irrigation and rectifi cation of irrigation scheduling in young pear trees: an evaluation based on vegetative and productive response. European Journal of Agronomy, 17(2), 111-122.
Pfammatter, W., & Dessimoz, A. (1997). Infl uence de l’irrigation et de la couverture du sol sur le développement et le rendement de jeunes pommiers (Infl uence of irrigation and ground cover on development and yields of young apple trees). Revue Suisse d’Viticulture, d’Arboriculture et d’Horticulture, 29(5), 301-304 (Fr).
Posadas, A., Rojas, G., Malaga, M., Mares, V., & Quiroz, R. (2008). Partial root-zone drying: an alternative irrigation management to improve the water use effi ciency of potato crops. International Potato Center.
Pulupol, L. U., Behboudian, M. H., & Fisher, K. J. (1996). Growth, yield, and postharvest attributes of glasshouse tomatoes produced under defi cit irrigation. HortScience, 31(6), 926929.
Spreer, W., Nagle, M., Neidhart, S., Carle, R., Ongprasert, S., & Müller, J. (2007). Effect of regulated defi cit irrigation and partial rootzone drying on the quality of mango fruits (Mangifera indica L., cv.‘Chok Anan’). Agricultural Water Management, 88(1-3), 173-180.
Stoll, M., Jones, H. G., & Infante, J. M. (2002). Leaf gas exchange and growth in red raspberries is reduced when part of the root system is dried. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 585, 671-676.
Talluto, G., Farina, V., & Bianco, R. (2007). Growth, fruit yield and quality of ‘Golden Delicious’ apple trees under fi xed partial rootzone drying. Journal of Applied Horticulture, 9(1), 50-55.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
