Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India
In the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, water shortages due to soil salinity limit the yield of dry season crops. To alleviate water shortage as a consequence of salinity stress in the coastal saline ecosystem, the effect of different water-saving (WS) and water-conserving options was assessed on g...
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Indranil Samui Milan Skalicky Sukamal Sarkar Koushik Brahmachari Sayan Sau Krishnendu Ray Akbar Hossain Argha Ghosh Manoj Kumar Nanda Richard W. Bell Mohammed Mainuddin Marian Brestic Liyun Liu Hirofumi Saneoka Muhammad Ali Raza Murat Erman Ayman EL Sabagh |
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Indranil Samui Milan Skalicky Sukamal Sarkar Koushik Brahmachari Sayan Sau Krishnendu Ray Akbar Hossain Argha Ghosh Manoj Kumar Nanda Richard W. Bell Mohammed Mainuddin Marian Brestic Liyun Liu Hirofumi Saneoka Muhammad Ali Raza Murat Erman Ayman EL Sabagh Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India Sustainability drip irrigation mulching yield quality tomato saline soil |
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Indranil Samui Milan Skalicky Sukamal Sarkar Koushik Brahmachari Sayan Sau Krishnendu Ray Akbar Hossain Argha Ghosh Manoj Kumar Nanda Richard W. Bell Mohammed Mainuddin Marian Brestic Liyun Liu Hirofumi Saneoka Muhammad Ali Raza Murat Erman Ayman EL Sabagh |
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Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India |
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Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India |
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Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India |
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Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India |
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Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, India |
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yield response, nutritional quality and water productivity of tomato (<i>solanum lycopersicum</i> l.) are influenced by drip irrigation and straw mulch in the coastal saline ecosystem of ganges delta, india |
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In the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, water shortages due to soil salinity limit the yield of dry season crops. To alleviate water shortage as a consequence of salinity stress in the coastal saline ecosystem, the effect of different water-saving (WS) and water-conserving options was assessed on growth, yield and water use of tomato; two field experiments were carried out at Gosaba, West Bengal, India in consecutive seasons during the winter of 2016–17 and 2017–18. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design with five treatments viz., surface irrigation, surface irrigation + straw mulching, drip irrigation at 100% reference evapotranspiration (ET<sub>0</sub>), drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub>, drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> + straw mulching. Application of drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> + straw mulching brought about significantly the highest fruit as well as the marketable yield of tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.). The soil reaction (pH), post-harvest organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (N, P and K) status and soil microbial population along with the biochemical quality parameters of tomato (juice pH, ascorbic acid, total soluble solids and sugar content of fruits) were significantly influenced by combined application of drip irrigation and straw mulching. Surface irrigation significantly increased the salinity level in surface and sub-surface soil layers while the least salinity development was observed in surface mulched plots receiving irrigation water through drip irrigation. The highest water productivity was also improved from drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> + straw mulched plots irrespective of the year of experimentation. Such intervention also helped in reducing salinity stress for the tomato crop. Thus, straw mulching along with drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> can be recommended as the most suitable irrigation option for tomato crop in the study area as well as coastal saline regions of South Asia. Finally, it can be concluded that the judicious application of irrigation water not only increased growth, yield and quality tomatoes but also minimized the negative impact of soil salinity on tomatoes grown in the coastal saline ecosystem of Ganges Delta. |
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doaj-2f68bf8ba2324ac49ae5e6be692937b92020-11-25T03:46:25ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502020-08-01126779677910.3390/su12176779Yield Response, Nutritional Quality and Water Productivity of Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) are Influenced by Drip Irrigation and Straw Mulch in the Coastal Saline Ecosystem of Ganges Delta, IndiaIndranil Samui0Milan Skalicky1Sukamal Sarkar2Koushik Brahmachari3Sayan Sau4Krishnendu Ray5Akbar Hossain6Argha Ghosh7Manoj Kumar Nanda8Richard W. Bell9Mohammed Mainuddin10Marian Brestic11Liyun Liu12Hirofumi Saneoka13Muhammad Ali Raza14Murat Erman15Ayman EL Sabagh16Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal 741252, IndiaDepartment of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicDepartment of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal 741252, IndiaDepartment of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal 741252, IndiaPurba Medinipur Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mulakhop, Dayaldasi, Nandakumar, East Medinipur, West Bengal 721632, IndiaSasya Shyamala Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Arapanch, Sonarpur, West Bengal 700150, IndiaBangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI), Dinajpur 5200, BangladeshDepartment of Agricultural Meteorology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal 741252, IndiaDepartment of Agricultural Meteorology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal 741252, IndiaAgriculture Discipline, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, AustraliaWater Resource Management Program, CSIRO Land and Water, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, ACT 2601, AustraliaDepartment of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech RepublicGraduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8528, JapanGraduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8528, JapanCollege of Agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, ChinaDepartment of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Siirt University, Siirt 56100, TurkeyDepartment of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Siirt University, Siirt 56100, TurkeyIn the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, water shortages due to soil salinity limit the yield of dry season crops. To alleviate water shortage as a consequence of salinity stress in the coastal saline ecosystem, the effect of different water-saving (WS) and water-conserving options was assessed on growth, yield and water use of tomato; two field experiments were carried out at Gosaba, West Bengal, India in consecutive seasons during the winter of 2016–17 and 2017–18. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design with five treatments viz., surface irrigation, surface irrigation + straw mulching, drip irrigation at 100% reference evapotranspiration (ET<sub>0</sub>), drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub>, drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> + straw mulching. Application of drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> + straw mulching brought about significantly the highest fruit as well as the marketable yield of tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.). The soil reaction (pH), post-harvest organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (N, P and K) status and soil microbial population along with the biochemical quality parameters of tomato (juice pH, ascorbic acid, total soluble solids and sugar content of fruits) were significantly influenced by combined application of drip irrigation and straw mulching. Surface irrigation significantly increased the salinity level in surface and sub-surface soil layers while the least salinity development was observed in surface mulched plots receiving irrigation water through drip irrigation. The highest water productivity was also improved from drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> + straw mulched plots irrespective of the year of experimentation. Such intervention also helped in reducing salinity stress for the tomato crop. Thus, straw mulching along with drip irrigation at 80% ET<sub>0</sub> can be recommended as the most suitable irrigation option for tomato crop in the study area as well as coastal saline regions of South Asia. Finally, it can be concluded that the judicious application of irrigation water not only increased growth, yield and quality tomatoes but also minimized the negative impact of soil salinity on tomatoes grown in the coastal saline ecosystem of Ganges Delta.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/6779drip irrigationmulchingyieldqualitytomatosaline soil |