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Improving Wheat Grain Yield and Nitrogen Use Efficiency by Optimizing the Fertigation Frequency Using Center Pivot Irrigation System

Dongyu Cai    
Muhammad Rizwan Shoukat    
Yudong Zheng    
Haibin Tan    
Mengyao Sun and Haijun Yan    

Resumen

High efficient nitrogen (N) application method and proper N management strategies can further reduce the losses and enhance N use efficiency. Field experiments were conducted in the 2015?2016 and 2016?2017 growing seasons to evaluate the effects of four fertigation frequencies treatments (FT-1: all the topdressing N was applied at the jointing stage; FT-2: 67% and 33% of the topdressing N was applied at the jointing and filling stages; FT-3: 33%, 50% and 17% of the topdressing N was applied at the regreening, jointing and filling stages; FT-4: 33%, 33%, 17% and 17% of the topdressing N were applied at the regreening, jointing, anthesis and filling stages) on wheat yield, water use efficiency (WUE), partial productivity of N fertilizer (PFPN) and N harvest index (NHI). In addition, one-time topdressing by surface broadcasting at the jointing stage was set up as a control (BC-1). The results showed that FT-3 and FT-4 supplied sufficient NO3--N in the 0?40 cm soil layer, which reduced the risk of soil NO3--N leaching to the deeper layers. FT-4 had the highest grain yield, WUE, PFPN and NHI, with average values of 9153.4 kg ha-1, 2.1 kg m-3, 0.74 kg kg-1 and 31.3 kg kg-1, respectively, followed by these values corresponding to the FT-3 in two years. These findings suggest that topdressing N split with 3?4 times, that is to say applying approximately 16.7% of topdressing N in anthesis and filling stages, respectively by the center pivot fertigation method can significantly improve yield, WUE, PFPN and NHI.

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