White-striped plastic mulch reduces root-zone temperatures during establishment and increases early season yields of annual winter strawberry

Deschamps, Stephen S.; Whitaker, Vance M.; Agehara, Shinsuke

doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2018.09.018

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“…The optimum canopy growth is critical to support strawberry fruit production [18]. Early canopy growth promotion is particularly important to increase early-season yield in winter strawberry production.…”

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“…Early canopy growth promotion is particularly important to increase early-season yield in winter strawberry production. Under subtropical climate conditions, the growth of strawberry plants is often inhibited by heat stress during establishment [18,19]. Deschamps et al [18] reported that, compared to black plastic mulch, cooling effects of white-striped plastic mulch resulted in average increases of 11% and 31% in early season canopy area and yield, respectively, in two strawberry cultivars.…”

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“…Under subtropical climate conditions, the growth of strawberry plants is often inhibited by heat stress during establishment [18,19]. Deschamps et al [18] reported that, compared to black plastic mulch, cooling effects of white-striped plastic mulch resulted in average increases of 11% and 31% in early season canopy area and yield, respectively, in two strawberry cultivars. In this study, increasing the early-season N fertilization rate increased mid-season leaf area by up to 78% and 45% in 'Florida Radiance' and 'Florida127', respectively.…”

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Characterizing Early-Season Nitrogen Fertilization Rate Effects on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Strawberry

Agehara

2021

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In winter strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) production, early-season nitrogen (N) fertilization greatly affects fruit earliness and yields, especially when pre-plant N is not applied. The objective of this study was to characterize the dose-responses of canopy growth, yield, and fruit quality to early-season N fertilization in ‘Florida Radiance’ and ‘Florida127’ strawberry. Field experiments were conducted in west-central Florida, United States. Treatments included four (0.56, 0.84, 1.12 and 1.40 kg ha−1 d−1) and five (0.22, 0.67, 1.12, 1.57, and 2.02 kg ha−1 d−1) early-season N rates in the first and second growing seasons, respectively. Increasing the early-season N rate increased early and total season yields by up to 62% to 65% and 56% to 58%, respectively, in the two cultivars. The total season yield had high positive correlations with leaf area and shoot DW. Model fitting analysis revealed cultivar-dependent dose-responses. Yield and berry size responses in ‘Florida Radiance’ were linear increases, whereas those in ‘Florida127’ were quadratic with peaks occurring at N rates of 1.21 or 1.57 kg ha−1 d−1. In ‘Florida Radiance’, soluble solids concentration showed a linear dose-response with a slope of –0.91 (0.91 °Brix decrease per 1 kg ha−1 d−1 N increase) during the early season. These results suggest that optimization of early-season N fertilization is an important production strategy to improve the profitability of winter strawberry production. Furthermore, fertilizer management that takes into account cultivar-dependent dose-responses can improve fertilizer use efficiency while minimizing fruit quality loss and environmental pollution risks.

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Characterizing Early-Season Nitrogen Fertilization Rate Effects on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Strawberry

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2021

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“…Cooling root zone techniques such as drip irrigation, mulching, and shading can be employed. These methods help regulate soil temperature, maintain moisture levels, and provide shade to the root system [21,22]. [6] found that fruit contained more fructose, glucose, and total carbohydrates when root zone temperatures were lower (18/12°C).…”

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Integration of Evaporative Greenhouse, Internet of Things and Root-zone Cooling to Enhance Growth and Development of Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) in Tropical Climate

Naphrom,

Kunasakdakul,

SANTASUP

et al. 2023

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The experiment was carried out during October 2022 to January 2023 at Mae Hea Agricultural Research, Demonstration and Training Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand; latitude: 18° 44′ 36″ North, Longitude: 98° 57′ 50″ East, and an al-titude 304 msl. Evaporative greenhouse, 9.6 x 40 square meters, with 8 planting troughs was prepared, Sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) system were installed to monitor continuously vital parameters, collect data, and send timely alerts to facilitate problem resolution. The data were displayed via IoT platform dashboard. An average air temperature, light intensity, media moisture and CO2 concentration in the greenhouse during 4 months was 21.1 ◦C, 12,948 Lux, 2 kPa and 495 ppm, respectively. The average maximum temperature in the evaporative greenhouse was 29.6 ◦C, which 4.2 ◦C lower than outside; 33.8 ◦C. Root-zone cooling of the strawberry planting was de-signed as factorial 3x4 in completely randomized design (CRD). Factor A was the short-day strawberry cultivars: 1) “Pharachatan 88” 2) “Pharachatan 80” and 3) “Akihime”. Factor B was the root-zone cooling treatments: 1) normal water dripping (NWD) 2) cold water dripping (CWD) 3) cold water dripping + cold water piping (CWD+CWP) and 4) normal water dripping + cold water piping (NWD+CWP). The results revealed that there was an interaction between the two factors on canopy width, leave width, crown diameter, number of flowers, fruit qualities and fruit color, whereas plant height, leaves length, SPAD and number of inflorescences were not affected by the interaction between the two factors. Four months after the experiment, the root-zone cooling treatments had no effect on chlorophyll contents, whereas “Pharachatan 80” had lower chlorophyll content than others. The CWD+CWP treatment could reduce 2 °C of root-zone temperature and leading to promote vegetative and reproductive growth in strawberry plants. Anyhow, without the root-zone cooling treatment, “Akihime”and “Pharachatan 88” still could produce flowers and yield, but “Pharachatan 80” could not. Furthermore, “Akihime” seemed appreciable in flowering, TSS and yield as compared to others.

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“…Mulching materials have a direct effect on the microclimate near the plant, and positively or negatively affect the physiological metabolism of the plant (Kader et al, 2017). Several studies have reported the beneficial effect of soil mulching on tomato (Kosterna, 2014; Mendonça et al, 2021), blueberry (Munner et al, 2019), potato (Abdelraouf et al, 2021; Zhao et al, 2014), strawberry (Deschamps et al, 2019), sweet pepper and cucumber (Abdelraouf et al, 2021) and maize (Wang et al, 2019). Rice straw mulching resulted in a reduction of soil temperature of up to 3°C, while it increased growth and marketable yield of tomato compared to no mulching (Mendonça et al, 2021).…”

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The effect of deficit irrigation, partial root drying and mulching on tomato yield, and water and energy saving*

Mahmoud

Fayad

2022

Irrigation and Drainage

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Partial root drying (PRD) is a modified irrigation strategy form of deficit irrigation (DI) to improve water productivity. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of PRD, DI and organic mulching on water and energy conservation, as well as tomato yield. A field trial was carried out during the 2019 and 2020 summer seasons in Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt. The main plots were assigned for the irrigation treatments, full irrigation with 100% of crop evapotranspiration, ETc (I 1 ), deficit irrigation with 85% of ETc (I 2 ) and 70% of ETc (I 3 ), meanwhile the subplots were allocated for irrigation strategies of irrigating plants from one side only (P 1 ), PRD (P 2 ), and continuous irrigation plants from both sides (P 3 ), and sub-subplots were allocated for no mulching (M 1 ) and mulching (M 2 ) treatments. The results showed that, compared to I 1 , tomato growth parameters and yield were reduced significantly for the I 2 and I 3 treatments. The tomato yield and water consumptive use were reduced by 3.4 and 5.3%, respectively, for the I 2 treatment and 28.1 and 18.2%, respectively, for the I 3 treatment. Water and energy productivity (WEP) increased by 34 and 47% for the I 2 and I 3 treatments, respectively. Organic mulching and PRD enhanced tomato growth parameters and yield, productivity of irrigation water and WEP. It was concluded, that I 2 Â P 2 Â M 2 interaction enhanced tomato yield while reducing water and energy consumption. K E Y W O R D S deficit irrigation, mulching, partial root drying, tomato, water energy productivity Résumé Le séchage partiel des racines (PRD) est une forme modifiée de stratégie d'irrigation par déficit (DI) pour améliorer la productivité de l'eau. L'objectif de cette étude était d'étudier les effets du PRD, DI et du paillage biologique sur la conservation de l'eau et de l'énergie, ainsi que sur la promotion du rendement des tomates. Un essai sur le terrain a été réalisé pendant les saisons d'été 2019 et 2020 dans le gouvernorat de Kafr el-cheikh, en Egypte. Les principales * L'effet de l'irrigation déficitaire, du séchage partiel des racines et du paillage sur le rendement des tomates et les économies d'eau et d'énergie.

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White-striped plastic mulch reduces root-zone temperatures during establishment and increases early season yields of annual winter strawberry

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Characterizing Early-Season Nitrogen Fertilization Rate Effects on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Strawberry

Characterizing Early-Season Nitrogen Fertilization Rate Effects on Growth, Yield, and Quality of Strawberry

Integration of Evaporative Greenhouse, Internet of Things and Root-zone Cooling to Enhance Growth and Development of Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) in Tropical Climate

The effect of deficit irrigation, partial root drying and mulching on tomato yield, and water and energy saving*

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