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Water balances and evapotranspiration in water- and dry-seeded rice systems

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Rice is a crop that is usually grown under flooded conditions and can require large amounts of water. The objective of this 3-year study was to quantify water use in water- (WS) and dry-seeded (DS) systems. In WS systems, the field is continuously flooded, while in DS systems the field is flush irrigated for the first month and then flooded. Research was conducted on commercial rice fields where the residual of the energy balance method using a sonic anemometer and the eddy covariance method were used to determine crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and crop coefficient (K c) values. In addition, inlet irrigation water and tailwater drainage were determined. Across years, there was no difference in ETc (averaged 862 mm), seasonal K c (averaged 1.07), irrigation water delivery (averaged 1839 mm) and calculated percolation and seepage losses (averaged 269 mm) between systems. An analysis of the first month of the season, when the water management between these two practices was different, indicated that K c and water use were lower in DS systems relative to WS systems when there was only one irrigation flush during this period, while two or three irrigation flushes resulted in similar values between the two systems.

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Acknowledgments

The authors want to thank the California Department of Water Resources for funding this research through a Water Use Efficiency Grant: Agreement 4600004204 “Water Use Efficiency in Sacramento Valley Rice Production”.

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  1. Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Bruce Linquist & Jim Hill

  2. Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Richard Snyder, Honza Rejmanek & Gwen Tindula

  3. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Sacramento, CA, USA

    Frank Anderson

  4. University of California Cooperative Extension, Colusa, CA, 95932, USA

    Luis Espino

  5. Dipartimento di Colture Arboree, Palermo State University, Palermo, Italy

    Guglielmo Inglese & Placido Nicolosi

  6. Department of Science for Nature and Environmental Resources, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

    Serena Marras

  7. Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), Sassari, Italy

    Serena Marras

  8. Department of Plant Production, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Ruben Moratiel

  9. University of California Cooperative Extension, Oroville, CA, 95965, USA

    Randall Mutters

  10. Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Alfonso Russo

  11. Horticulture and Agronomy Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Tom Shapland

  12. Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China

    Zhenwei Song

  13. Agricultural Engineering Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

    Atef Swelam

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Linquist, B., Snyder, R., Anderson, F. et al. Water balances and evapotranspiration in water- and dry-seeded rice systems. Irrig Sci 33, 375–385 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00271-015-0474-4

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