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Abdel-Monnem Sadalaha Khalel
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6264/2015.01B.002
Department of Plant Production, Technical Agricultural College, Mosul 43581, Iraq
In order to reduce the quantity of water applied by irrigation, increase the water use efficiency and determine the appropriate period for irrigation potato crop, a field experiment was implemented at vegetables field, Department of Plant Production, Agriculture Technical College, Mosul, Iraq, during spring season of 2014. This study involved four irrigation intervals (3, 4, 5 and 6 d) under drip irrigation system, with spraying by five antitranspirant substances (control, kaolin 5 g/L, MgCO3 3 g/L, liquid paraffin 2% and Nu-film 17 1%), which subjected in a factorial experiment within split plot system in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The results showed that increasing irrigation intervals from 3 d to 6 d decreased the total water content of the leaves from 83.59% to 81.81%, the rate of relative transpiration from 0.174% to 0.162%, stomata area from 1.620 μm2/stomata to 0.921 μm2/stomata, plant yield from 542.22 g to 425.80 g, total yield of tubers from 25.808 tons/ha to 20.253 tons/ha and marketable yield of tubers from 24.471 tons/ha to 18.822 tons/ha, whereas caused an increase in the leaf water deficit from 19.19% to 23.86% and water use efficiency from 8.63 kg/m3 to 13.32 kg/m3. Spraying potato plants with liquid paraffin 2% led to the highest total water content 83.37%, stomata area 1.466 μm2/stomata, the lowest relative transpiration 0.152%, the lowest leaf water deficit 20.33%, the highest plant yield 509.22 g, total yield 24.236 tons/ha, marketable yield 22.770 tons/ha and water use efficiency 11.83 kg/m3. On the other hand, the interaction treatments between irrigation intervals and antitranspirants resulted in a significant effect in many studied parameters.
Potato, drip irrigation, antitranspirants, tuber, stomata, kaolin, liquid paraffin.