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From leaf to whole-plant water use efficiency (WUE) in complex canopies: Limitations of leaf WUE as a selection target

open access: yesCrop Journal, 2015
Plant water use efficiency (WUE) is becoming a key issue in semiarid areas, where crop production relies on the use of large volumes of water. Improving WUE is necessary for securing environmental sustainability of food production in these areas.
Hipólito Medrano   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Novel S. pennellii × S. lycopersicum Hybrid Rootstocks for Tomato Production with Reduced Water and Nutrient Supply

open access: yesHorticulturae, 2021
Drought stress and nutrient deficiency are limiting factors in vegetable production that will have a decisive role due to the challenges of climate change in the future.
Jan Ellenberger   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pearl Millet Forage Water Use Efficiency

open access: yes, 2020
Pearl millet (Pennisitum glaucum L.) is a warm season C4 grass well adapted to semiarid climates where concerns over scarce and depleting water resources continually prompt the search for water efficient crop management to improve water use efficiency ...
Brock Blaser   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Rate of Nitrogen Rather Than Timing of Application Influence Yield and NUE of Canola in South Australian Mediterranean Environments

open access: yesAgronomy, 2020
Canola has a high nitrogen requirement and optimal nitrogen (N) management in environments with variable rainfall is a challenge. This study investigated the impact of timing of N as a single or split application at different growth stages on seed yield,
Amritbir Riar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water management, planting slope indicators, and economic benefit analysis for Panax notoginseng production decision under shaded and rain-shelter cultivation: A three-year sloping fields experiment

open access: yesAgricultural Water Management
Panax notoginseng cultivation planting conditions are harsh and require high soil moisture and slope of cultivated land, plus it takes 3–7 years from planting to harvesting. At present, the continuous crop barrier of Panax notoginseng has not been solved,
Jiankai Tang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Nano- and Conventional Silicon and Potassium on The Availability and Uptake of Silicon, Potassium and Potato Yield Under Water Stress Conditions [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة الأنبار للعلوم الزراعية
This field experiment was conducted in the spring of 2023 at Agricultural Research Station 1 of the College of Agriculture at the University of Anbar in Ramadi, Iraq.
M. Jumaah, M. Sallume
doaj   +1 more source

A Review of Modeled Water Use Efficiency of Highly Productive Perennial Grasses Useful for Bioenergy

open access: yes, 2020
Whole plant productivity is obviously the ultimate product of leaf photosynthesis and this has led to numerous efforts to relate the two. However, often with perennial grasses, plant productivity is more sink-limited than source-limited, causing the ...
Sumin Kim, James R. Kiniry
core   +1 more source

Spatial heterogeneity of agricultural drought drivers in irrigation district: A causal inference framework bridging covariation and structural equation modeling

open access: yesAgricultural Water Management
Analyzing the driving factors of agricultural drought is important for irrigation management. This study established a new causal framework integrating causal covariation and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to reveal the agricultural drought ...
Xiang Shi, Wenting Han, Yubin Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of mulched drip irrigation on crop biomass and carbon fluxes in maize field

open access: yesAgricultural Water Management
The agroecosystem, a critical component of the terrestrial carbon cycle, plays an indispensable role in maintaining the balance of carbon pools and ensuring global food security.
Hui Guo, Xuhui Wang, Yahui Wang, Sien Li
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis and Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Use Efficiency in China

open access: yes, 2019
Proper water use requires its monitoring and evaluation. An indexes system of overall water use efficiency is constructed here that covers water consumption per 10,000 yuan GDP, the coefficient of effective utilization of irrigation water, the water ...
Wenge Zhang   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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