Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 2370-2380.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.12.17

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Effects of different water and fertilization on nutrient uptake, yield and quality of greenhouse muskmelon under drip irrigation condition

YUE Wenjun1(), HE Wenxue1, DING Chunmei1, BAI Yu1, ZHOU Yingjie1, XI Hui2,*()   

  1. 1. College of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou 310018, China
    2. Institute of Environment, Resources, Soil and Fertilizer, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Hangzhou 310021, China
  • Received:2020-09-18 Online:2021-12-25 Published:2022-01-10
  • Contact: XI Hui

Abstract:

Water and nitrogen are two important factors affecting crop growth. In facility agriculture, farmers blindly irrigate and fertilize for obtaining high yield, which leads to lots of problems such as reduced yield, decreased quality, soil salinization, and soil fertility destruction. Aiming at the problem of unreasonable irrigation and fertilization of muskmelon in greenhouse in Hangjiahu area of southeast China, effects of different water and nitrogen inputs on dry matter accumulation, nutrient absorption and distribution, yield and quality of melon in greenhouse were studied by drip fertilization under membrane. It can provide a theoretical basis for high quality and high yield of melon and efficient utilization of water and fertilizer in greenhouse. According to data from a mini-meteorological station inside the greenhouse, crop water requirement (ETc) was calculated by modified Penman-Monteith formula. There were 60% of ETc (W1), 80% of ETc (W2), 100% of ETc (W3) three water levels and 70 (N1), 105 (N2), 140 kg·hm-2 (N3) three nitrogen levels, setting up conventional furrow irrigation fertilization CK (ETc, 140 kg·hm-2) for comparison, a total of 10 treatments, application completely randomized block design of experiment. Compared with traditional furrow fertilization (CK), the net photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll content of melon leaves of treatment W3N3 under drip fertilization was increased by 52.3% and 39.0%, respectively. The dry matter increased by 40.96 g (39%) in the mature period. The accumulations of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium of a whole plant increased by 75.40%, 88.20% and 67.08%, respectively. Yield of melon was increased by 6.78 t·hm-2, or 35.27%. Under drip irrigation, increasing irrigation and nitrogen application can significantly improve photosynthetic efficiency, increase dry matter accumulation and nutrient absorption, and thus increase yield. The principle component analysis method was used to evaluate the muskmelon quality, and the results showed that comprehensive principle component could represent 91.27% total quality index, the highest comprehensive evaluation was obtained in W2N2. The integrated drip irrigation and fertilizer technology of melon in greenhouse can achieve the purpose of improving quality and increasing yield as well as efficient utilization of water and fertilizer. Under the condition of drip irrigation and fertilization, the amount of nitrogen applied is N3 (140 kg·hm-2) and the amount of irrigation water is W3 (1.0 ETc), the amount of dry matter accumulation, nutrient absorption and yield of melon were the highest. When both yield and fertilizer utilization efficiency were pursued, W3N2 treatment could obtain higher yield and nitrogen partial productivity. When it came to melon quality and water use efficiency (WUE), W2N2 treatment maximized VC, soluble sugar, soluble solids and high WUE.

Key words: muskmelon, greenhouse, dry matter accumulation, yield, quality

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