Water Saving in Agriculture: From Soil to Plant—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 321
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water saving irrigation; physiological stress of cotton; simulation of crop water; regulation of crop water demand and consumption; water, carbon and nitrogen cycle in farmland
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Interests: water and carbon balance; winter wheat; irrigation methods and frequencies; mechanism of water saving in farmland; water efficient use
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Interests: soil nitrogen cycle; greenhouse gas emissions; irrigation management; water use efficiency; poor quality water
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The shortage of water resources is a topic of interest in the world today. Farmland irrigation provides a foundation for developing sustainable agriculture. The development of water-saving agriculture is an important measure for alleviating water resource shortages and ensuring food security. Previous research into water-saving agriculture has mainly focused on the increase in and storage of soil water in the crop root layer and the reduction in evaporation and consumption in the tillage and cultivation of farmland, irrigation engineering, and agronomic water-saving technology. However, with the development of research into the soil–crop water relationship, ever-more research has been conducted into the exploitation of plants’ physiological water-saving potential, the improvement of water and nitrogen use efficiency under fertigation technology, and the change in soil greenhouse gas emissions after changes in soil water supply. Whether luxury transpiration happens in plant growth, how the stomata of leaves respond to environmental changes, what the main signals regulating the stomatal opening and closing are, how to regulate transpiration of crops, how drip irrigation affects water and nitrogen use efficiency, and what contributions water management has made to soil greenhouse gas emissions have been considered to reach a unified conclusion.
This Special Issue focuses on how soil water regulation and leaves sprayed with exogenous substances affect transpiration, photosynthesis, plant growth, and water use efficiency, as well as how irrigation schedules and methods, irrigation water quality, and drop fertigation technology affect farmland water, nitrogen use efficiency, and soil greenhouse gas emissions.
Prof. Dr. Jingsheng Sun
Prof. Dr. Quanqi Li
Dr. Guangshuai Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil water regulation
- exogenous substances
- plant signal of water
- stomate respond
- transpiration
- photosynthesis
- plant growth
- water use efficiency
- greenhouse gas emissions
- water and nitrogen use efficiency
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