Effects of irrigation threshold and fertilization on growth, yield and physiological properties of fertigated tomato in greenhouse
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2013.01.15
Key Words: irrigation threshold  fertigation  growth  yield  phot osynthetic characteristic  water use efficiency( WUE)
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YUAN Yuxia Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water-saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
ZHANG Fucang Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water-saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
ZHANG Yan Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water-saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
SUO Yansong Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education/Institute of Water-saving Agriculture in Arid Areas of China, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China 
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Abstract:
      For the purpose of exploring the effective mode of fertigation in greenhouse, the experiment was conducted to analyze the effects of different irrigation threshold and fertilization on growth, physiological pro perties and yield of tomato. There were three irrigation threshold treatments in cluding W1 (65%θF), W2 (75%θF) and W3 (85%θF), and three fertilization treatments including F1 (low) , F2 (middle) and F3 (high). The results showed that the growth, yield and physi ological properties of tomato could be modified by different irrigation threshol d and fertilization. Under certain irrigation threshold, the plant height, leaf area, photosynthesis and transpiration rate, dry matter production and yield of tomato could be significantly increased along with the increase of fertilization amount, while excessive fertilization was detrimental to the growth, dry matter accumulation and yield improvement of tomato. Under certain fertilization amoun t, the plant height, leaf area and dry weight of tomato could be improved by rat ional increase of irrigation threshold, while excessive irrigation threshold was not conducive to the growth, photosynthetic rate and yield improvement of tomat o. The treatment of W2F2 was most conducive to the growth, dry matter accumulati on, yield and water use efficiency of tomato. The experiment also showed that, u nder different water and fertilization treatments, there was a significant linea r correlation between the yield and dry matter weight as well as leaf net photos ynthetic rate, and there was a significant quadratic parabola correlation betwee n the leaf water use efficiency and net photosynthetic rate.