Effect of deficit irrigation controlled in maize plant development
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Maize is considered one of the main crops that contribute to food and nutritional security for a large part of the world population and drought represents one of the phenomena that most negatively impacts agri-food production and therefore the yield of this cereal. The research was carried out under semi-controlled conditions in concrete containers planted with the maize P7928 cultivar and three controlled deficit irrigation (CDI) treatments were studied, with irrigation suspensions for 15 days in three stages of crop development (SC, SF and SLL)) and a control treatment irrigated at 100 % of the ETc. At the end of the irrigation suspension periods, evaluations of soil moisture, physiological and yield indicators were carried out. The statistical analysis of the data was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 19 program. The results showed that the suspension of irrigation for 15 days in the three stages (SC), (SF) and (SLL) to plants of the maize cultivar P7928 caused significant decreases in soil moisture and RWC. In addition, in SC it reduced the aerial dry mass, considerably the 100 grains mass and the grams per plant. In SF, it reduced stem length, RCC, severely 100grains mass, and yield in grams per plant, and in SLL, only RCC.
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