This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project.

This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project.

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An understanding of the expected variability in irrigated crops under field size, surface irrigation conditions is needed to improve irrigation designs and water management scheduling procedures. The objective of this work is to describe water application uniformity under an efficient level -basin irrigation system and the variability of water use (soil water depletion) for three levels of irrigation and two basin lengths for a wheat crop. High water distribution uniformities with a level -basin irrigation system did not necessarily result in maximum irrigation application efficiencies where variations in soil -water factors were greater on a drier irrigation treatment than medium or wet treatment. Variations in soil water depletion were found for all irrigation treatments with the largest variation (13 %) occurring for the drier treatment. Spatial dependence was exhibited for soil water depletion but not necessarily for seasonal irrigation water applications.

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Two-year studies (1979-1980, 1980-1981) designed to measure the relation of plant development to yield of spring wheats were undertaken at the University of Arizona Mesa Experiment Station and at the Casa Grande Overpass Farm, Tucson. Low density seeding rates (15 to 20 kg/ha) were used in both studies. The soil at Mesa and in Tucson were clay and sandy barns, respectively. All plants grown under limiting water conditions received 150 kg/m² pre-plant irrigation. Supplemental water as rainfall in the 1979-1980, 1980-1981 seasons were 153 and 79 kg/m² atMesa respectively, and 134 and 116 kg/m2 in Tucson for the respective seasons. Experiments were also conducted in Tucson during the two seasons to evaluate yield performance of wheats under well-watered conditions (525 kg 1m2 and 400 kg/m² irrigation water in the 1979-1980, 1980-1981 seasons, respectively) and on plants which received a single added irrigation approximately 2 to 3 weeks prior to the estimated time of anthesis. Yields in Mesa ranged from 2400 to 3700 kg/ha in 1980 and from 1800 to 3600 kg/ha in 1981. When grown under limiting water conditions in Tucson yields ranged from 1100 to 3000 kg/ha in 1980 and from 2000 to 4100 kg/ha in 1981. Productivities of plants grown with a single added irrigation ranged from 2000 to 4200 kg/ha. Under minimal water conditions yield was correlated with head weight of the main culm, average head weight, grain weight per spike, number of grains per unit land area, Leaf area and Flag leaf area indices at later stages of development, total plant dry weights, root depths and dry weights. Differences were found in tissue water status and leaf growth of selected entries. Tissue water potential was higher in a higher yielding than in a low yielding entry. Additionally, tissues at the basal region tended to be more "sensitive" to changes in soil moisture than those at the mid-section of the expanding leaf. Difficulty in sample selection and variability with plants militated against using leaf growth as an index for determining the degree of stress in field grown wheat cultivars. Neutron probe analysis of soil profile water depletion of a high yielding, long rooted cultivar was greater at the lower depths (60 to 120 cm) after anthesis than for an intermediate or low yielder.

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