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Margarita Garcia-Vila, Rodrigo Morillo-Velarde and Elias Fereres
Process-based crop models such as AquaCrop are useful for a variety of applications but must be accurately calibrated and validated. Sugar beet is an important crop that is grown in regions under water scarcity. The discrepancies and uncertainty in past ...
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George B. Frisvold and Dari Duval
The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people in the U.S. Southwest, with river basin spanning 250,000 square miles (647,497 km2). Quantitative water rights assigned to U.S. states, Mexico, and tribes in the Colorado Basin exceed annual streamfl...
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Jianqin Ma, Yu Ding, Jianghui Zhang, Yungang Bai, Bifeng Cui, Xiuping Hao, Ming Zheng, Bangxin Ding and Shuoguo Yang
Determining a suitable ?dry sowing and wet emergence? water control program for cotton fields in the arid regions of Northwest China is of great significance in saving water resources, improving economic efficiency, and promoting sustainable development ...
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Shengcai Qiang, Yan Zhang, Junliang Fan, Fucang Zhang, Wen Lin, Min Sun, Zhiqiang Gao and Xiwang Tang
Ridge and furrow plastic mulch (RFPM) and nitrogen (N) application are effective strategies for improving crop productivity in China?s Loess Plain. However, it is not clear how the ridge?furrow ratio and nitrogen fertilizer type (NT) affect the use of wa...
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Haifu Pan, Wuyun Zhao, Ruijie Shi, Lu Li, Fei Dai, Huan Deng and Yiming Zhao
Water is an important factor limiting the development of arid rain-fed agriculture. Film mulching is an effective way to ensure yield in arid areas. However, whether biodegradable film can be used instead of polyethylene film for agricultural production ...
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Shima Mirzaei, Shirin Moradi, Morteza Karimi, Sara Esmaeili, Nazim S. Gruda and Sasan Aliniaeifard
The agricultural sector faces challenges due to climate change and the growing global population. Alkaline stress could adversely impact plant growth and crop production. This stressor diminishes water quality essential for crop cultivation, consequently...
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Witold Grzebisz, Alicja Niewiadomska, Jaroslaw Potarzycki and Agnieszka Andrzejewska
Phosphorus resources, both in phosphate rocks and in the soil, are limited. However, effective food production is not possible without the use of P fertilizers. Recognizing and eliminating or at least ameliorating factors (hot spots) that interfere with ...
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Patrícia Campdelacreu Rocabruna, Xavier Domene, Catherine Preece and Josep Peñuelas
Phosphorus (P) is a vital macronutrient crucial for crop productivity. Plants absorb P salts, mainly orthophosphate, from the soil, yet the primary P source resides in organic materials. Acid and alkaline phosphatases (the predominant forms of soil phosp...
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Abdelmalek Temnani, Pablo Berríos, Susana Zapata-García, Pedro J. Espinosa and Alejandro Pérez-Pastor
Irrigated agriculture is facing a serious problem of water scarcity, which could be mitigated by optimizing the application of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) strategies. For this reason, the aim of our study was to determine irrigation thresholds bas...
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Hongsi Gao, Xiaochun Zhang, Xiugui Wang and Yuhong Zeng
The assessment of crop water productivity (CWP) is of practical significance for improving regional agricultural water use efficiency and water conservation levels. The remote sensing method is a common method for estimating large scale CWP, and the asse...
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