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Acta Horticulturae Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (2): 453-466.doi: 10.16420/j.issn.0513-353x.2024-0254

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The Effect of Reducing Soil Temperature with Straw Mulching Cultivation on Potato Growth

ZHOU Jinhua1,2, BAI Lei1, ZHANG Rui1, GUO Huachun1,*()   

  1. 1 Tuber and Root Crop Research Institute,College of Agronomy and Biotechnology,Yunnan Agricultural University,Kunming 650500,China
    2 Industrial Crop Research Institute,Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Kunming 650205,China
  • Received:2024-09-03 Revised:2024-11-09 Online:2025-02-25 Published:2025-02-23
  • Contact: GUO Huachun

Abstract:

The experiment investigated the effects of rice straw mulching on potato growth used the main potato cultivar‘Qingshu 9’as the material. Under the conditions of potato mono-cropping in the spring and summer seasons and potato-corn intercropping,treatments with straw mulching and without straw mulching were established. And the soil temperature,potato tuber yield,quality,canopy temperature,growth stage and aboveground growth conditions were measured. The results showed that in the summer of 2020,the maximum soil temperature under straw mulching treatment(23.81 ℃)was significantly lower than under no straw mulching(30.44 ℃),with the yield and commercial tuber rate also significantly higher than no straw mulching,although there were no significant effects on tuber dry matter and starch content. The results from the potato mono-cropping in the summer seasons of 2021 were similar to 2020,and the straw mulching treatment delayed the number of days from sowing to emergence and from sowing to maturity by 5 and 6 days,respectively,compared with no straw mulching,but no significant difference in the survival time of the aboveground parts and smaller diurnal variations in soil temperature. When potato-corn intercropping,the shading by tall corn did not effectively reduce the canopy air temperature and maximum soil temperature of potatoes,and also resulted in lower yields,commercial tuber rates,and aboveground survival times compared with mono-cropping. The spring and summer mono-cropping trials of 2022 showed similar results to 2021,further indicating that straw mulching treatment did not significantly affect emergence rate,plant morphological characteristics,biomass,dry matter content of various organs,and leaf gas exchange parameters compared with no straw mulching. In summary,straw mulching cultivation is an effective method to mitigate high temperature stress in field-grown potatoes.

Key words: potato, growth, straw mulching, soil temperature, daily variation of soil temperature