Abstract
The most important effect of water stress on plants is that it reduces leaf area and leads to changes in leaf morphology. Decreased leaf area results in reduces crop yield through the reduction in photosynthesis. This study investigates the effects of the decrease in leaf area on seed cotton yield, evapotranspiration (ET), water use efficiency (WUE), and leaf geometry in cotton plants under water stress in different growth periods. The cotton plant was divided into three different growth periods (vegetative period (VP), flowering and boll growth period (FB), and boll opening (BO) period), and irrigation water was applied at field capacity level during the periods of full irrigation (T), while non-irrigation was applied during the water stress periods (O). In the experiment, 6 different irrigation strategies were based on: OOO, TTT, OTO, TOO, OTT, and TOT. In each treatment, five leaves were taken from three plants in every replicate during three growth periods, and the leaf area and geometric lengths of each leaf were measured. Seed cotton yield, evapotranspiration, and WUE decreased significantly depending on the severity and duration of the water stress to which the cotton was exposed. Physiologically, cotton leaves under water stress in the first stage of growth tended to increase the leaf lobe numbers while reducing the leaf area. Therefore, there were more leaf lobes numbers measured in OOO than in other treatments. Irrigation in the vegetative growth period was more effective in increasing the leaf area than the other growth periods.
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Claim · model-written summary
Water stress significantly decreased seed cotton yield, evapotranspiration and WUE, depending on its severity and duration.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume1 - Treatment
- water stresse1
- Outcome
- Seed cotton yield, evapotranspiration, and WUEe1
- Direction
- decreasede1
- Qualifier
- depending on the severity and duration of the water stresse1
- Comparator
- full irrigatione2
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Verbatim
e1“Seed cotton yield, evapotranspiration, and WUE decreased significantly depending on the severity and duration of the water stress to which the cotton was exposed”
e2“irrigation water was applied at field capacity level during the periods of full irrigation (T), while non-irrigation was applied during the water stress periods (O)”
Claim · model-written summary
Cotton under water stress in OOO had more leaf lobe numbers than in other irrigation treatments.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume3
- Organ / stage
- first stage of growthe3
- Treatment
- OOOe4
- Direction
- moree4
- Comparator
- other treatmentse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“Physiologically, cotton leaves under water stress in the first stage of growth tended to increase the leaf lobe numbers while reducing the leaf area”
e4“there were more leaf lobes numbers measured in OOO than in other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress in the first growth stage reduced cotton leaf area.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume3
- Organ / stage
- first stage of growthe3
- Treatment
- water stresse3
- Outcome
- leaf areae3
- Direction
- reducinge3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“Physiologically, cotton leaves under water stress in the first stage of growth tended to increase the leaf lobe numbers while reducing the leaf area”
Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation in the vegetative growth period increased leaf area more effectively than irrigation in the other growth periods.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume6
- Treatment
- Irrigation in the vegetative growth periode5
- Outcome
- leaf areae5
- Direction
- increasinge5
- Comparator
- the other growth periodse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e5“Irrigation in the vegetative growth period was more effective in increasing the leaf area than the other growth periods”
e6“The cotton plant was divided into three different growth periods”
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