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Use Of Capacitance Sensors For Development Of Conservative Irrigation Regimes, Ethan Daniel Hagen
Use Of Capacitance Sensors For Development Of Conservative Irrigation Regimes, Ethan Daniel Hagen
Masters Theses
Several experiments were conducted to further develop capacitance sensor-based automated irrigation systems. The first experiment tested whether the photosynthetic response to decreasing volumetric water content (VWC) differed among four species tested. A sigmoidal curve best described the relationship for all species (r2 [r-squared]>0.86). The VWC that maintained maximum photosynthesis at 90% was selected as a potential conservative irrigation set point and values were not different between species, nor were 100% container capacity values. This indicates that a single set point is adequate to initiate irrigation and that a common upper threshold for VWC can be used for this …