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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (26): 98-104.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2020-0647

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The Soil Moisture Threshold for Emergence of Desert Economic Plant griophyllum Squarrosum

Wang Qi1,2(), Ma Quanlin2(), Chen Fang2, Wei Linyuan2, Zhang Weixing1,2   

  1. 1Gansu Linze Desert Ecosystem Research Station, Gansu Desert Control Research Institute, Linze Gansu 734200
    2State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Desertification and Aeolian Sand Disaster Combating,Gansu Desert Control Research Institute, Lanzhou 730070
  • Received:2020-11-11 Revised:2021-01-23 Online:2021-09-15 Published:2021-09-30
  • Contact: Ma Quanlin E-mail:wangqisxy@163.com;MQL925@126.com

Abstract:

Emergence is the most important stage in plant growth. Determining the threshold of soil moisture during the emergence of Agriophyllum squarrosum has great significance to promote the development of wild Agriophyllum squarrosum population and its artificial planting. The pot experiment was conducted by setting temperature, sowing time and soil moisture gradients to study the changes of emergence rate of Agriophyllum squarrosum under different conditions, and to determine the suitable soil moisture content for the emergence of Agriophyllum squarrosum in aeolian sandy soil. The results showed that: (1) in laboratory, the lower limit of moisture threshold under three different temperature gradients was 10.81% (10.0 mm), 10.81% (7.5 mm) and 8.51% (7.5 mm), respectively, in outdoor, the lower limit of moisture threshold of different sowing time was 10.0 mm; (2) the water threshold for the emergence of Agriophyllum squarrosum was not only related to the periodic dormancy characteristics of seeds, but also to the ambient temperature, the higher the ambient temperature, the lower the threshold value of moisture. The study proposed the method for determining the lower limit of the moisture threshold of Agriophyllum squarrosum seedlings for the first time, which could provide basic data for the artificial planting of Agriophyllum squarrosum and the effective use of natural rainfall in the non-arable land.

Key words: Agriophyllum Squarrosum, emergence rate, soil moisture, moisture threshold, temperature, moisture content, aeolian sand soil, pot experiment

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