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Optimizing water and phosphorus management to improve hay yield and water‐ and phosphorus‐use efficiency in alfalfa under drip irrigation
Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is an important forage legume in arid areas, but limited water resources and low fertilizer utilization have restricted its agricultural development. Meanwhile, studies on the effects of integrated water and phosphorus on production performance and water‐use efficiency and phosphorus‐use efficiency of alfalfa, especially on hay yield, phosphorus accumulation, and total phosphorus uptake are rarely reported under drip irrigation. The treatments were a factorial combination of three irrigation rates (5,250, 6,000, and 6,750?m3/ha per year) and four P rates (0, 50, 100, and 150?kg/ha per year) and consisted of 12 treatments for water and P management, arranged in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. Total hay yield and water‐use efficiency and phosphorus‐use efficiency of alfalfa in P2 treatment were significantly greater than those in the P1 and P3 treatments (p??.05), and the total hay yield of alfalfa with phosphorus application increased by 7.43%–29.87% compared with that in the nonphosphorus (P0) treatment under the same irrigation amount. The total phosphorus and available phosphorus concentrations in the 0–20?cm soil layer were greater than those in the 20–40?cm and 40–60?cm soil layers compared with those in the P0 treatment. Correlation analyses showed that total hay yield was significantly positively correlated with total phosphorus uptake and water‐use efficiency (p??.01). The accumulated phosphorus concentration was significantly positively correlated with total phosphorus and available phosphorus concentration (p??.01) and was positively correlated with the phosphorus‐use efficiency (p??.05). The membership function method was used to evaluate all the indicators, and the three treatments that had the greatest influence on the production performance of alfalfa were, in order, W2P2??W3P2??W1P2. Therefore, an irrigation rate of 6,000?m3/ha and a phosphorus application rate of 100?kg/ha per year should be considered as the best management for both high yield and water‐use efficiency and phosphorus‐use efficiency of alfalfa.
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