The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA BIOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2006  
         
  Article:   MAIZE WATER CONSUMPTION AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF TECHNOLOGY.

Authors:  CORNEL DOMUŢA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The results of our research were obtained in Oradea, Western Romania, during 2001-2005. Maize water consumption was determined by using the water balance method on 0-150 cm profile of the soil, in both nonirrigated and irrigated conditions. Determinations made every ten days in the irrigated variant, maintained the soil moisture between easily available water content and field capacity on 0-75 cm profile of the soil. Water use efficiency was calculated by reporting the yield to water consumption. All the components of the technology applied, such as crop rotation (melioration, crop rotation of 3 and 2 years, monocrop), hybrid use, plant density (25, 40, 55, 70 and 85 thousand plants/hectare), soil tillage (plow at 25 cm and 12 cm depth, ciesel, disk), fertilization (manure, manure + N90P45), irrigation and weed control, significantly influenced the values of the maize water consumption and of the water use efficiency. These findings underline the importance of optimizing every technological component of the maize crop.  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page