Optimizing Plant Water Use Efficiency for a Sustainable Environment

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel 2022
• Subjects: abiotic stress; ALES-Arid; almond cultivars; almond quality; antioxidant capacity; apple; benefit-cost ratio; bioactive compounds; biodegradation; Biology, life sciences; cherries; crop coefficient; crop physiological response; crop physiological response to drought scenarios; crop productivity; crop suitability; crop water productivity; crop-production functions; crop-water requirements; deficit irrigation; diseases; diversity; drip irrigation; drought stress; environment; ERP; evapotranspiration; FDR probes and daily fraction of intercepted photosynthetically active radiation; food quality; fruit quality; fruit size; fungi; GIS; greenhouse; growth; harvest index; hydroponics; hydroxycinnamic acids; in vitro culture; internet of things; irrigation; irrigation water productivity; Jerusalem artichoke; landsat; leaf area; leaf area index; leaf greenness index; Linum album Ky. ex Boiss; maize; Manihot esculenta; Manzanilla; marketability; Mathematics and Science; midday stem water potential; mineral fertilization; mineral nutrients; morphological properties; nitrogen; nut yield; olive; osmolytes; oxidative stress; phenology; photosynthesis; photosynthetic rate; pigments; platform; precision agriculture; preformed plastic mulch film; Prunus dulcis; quality; quality markers; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; regulated deficit irrigation; remote sensing; Research and information: general; root components; root growth; root length density; root morphology; root weight density; root-shoot relationships; sap flow; SEBAL; semiarid Mediterranean environment; silicon; smart farming; software; spray-on mulch; stomatal conductance; sustainability; sustained deficit irrigation; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; tomato; transpiration rate; tuber; Vairo; water; water potential; water productivity; water relation; water saving; water status; water stress; water use efficiency; web application; yield; yield components; Zea mays

The rising shortage of water resources in crop-producing regions worldwide and the need for irrigation optimisation call for sustainable water savings. The allocation of irrigation water will be an ever-increasing source of pressure because of vast agricultural demands under changing climatic condit...