A trial was carried out at the lysimeter station in southern Italy on muskmelon crop cultivated with
and without plastic mulch during spring–summer in 2001 and 2003. The objective of the experiment
was to verify the reliability of the crop evapotranspiration (ET
) estimate by means of the most recent
update of the FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, in comparison with ET
c
directly measured by
two mechanical weighing lysimeters.
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