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Water productivity and yield of chickpea in response to supplementary irrigation, plant density, and sulfur fertilizing

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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an essential pulse crop grown and consumed all over the world, which rendered the whole world to produce millions of tons per annum, that led to thinking about improving the productivity of water and land. For this purpose, the current study was carried out to investigate the effect of two plant densities (P15 and P30) 15 and 30 plants m−2; two levels of elemental sulfur (S0 and S50) 0 and 50 g m−2; and supplementary irrigation SI with non-irrigation NI; on some characteristics chickpea and water productivity (WP). The seeds (variety-Flip 82-150) were sown on March 13, 2018. The cumulative depth of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) from sowing stage to harvesting stage was calculated (437 and 402 mm) for SI and NI, respectively. The cumulative rainfall (152 mm) was contributed to ETa by 37.8% and 34.8% in NI and SI, respectively, Since SI (33 mm) was applied to bring the fraction available water remaining to 0.91 from 0.52, this amount of single irrigation contributed to ETa by 8% in SI treatment. As to the rest contribution of the ETa value were obtained from moisture storage of soil profile. The results also showed that SI increased grain yield by 34.3%, as well as led to the increase of WP by 23.5%. P15 as compared to P30 resulted in 25.2% and 25.6% promotion in yield and WP, respectively. The same trend of increasing in yield (14.7%) and WP (12.8%) was noticed from the effect of S50 compared to S0.

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    Mohammed A. Fattah, Shara J. Hama, Rebaz A. Ahmad, Roshn M. Rasul & Renas Y. Qader

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Fattah, M.A., Hama, S.J., Ahmad, R.A. et al. Water productivity and yield of chickpea in response to supplementary irrigation, plant density, and sulfur fertilizing. J. Crop Sci. Biotechnol. 23, 385–393 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12892-020-00047-4

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