Fertilizer Application for Enhanced Crop Nutrient and Water Use Efficiency under Irrigation Strategy
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2025 | Viewed by 167
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biological water-saving irrigation; plant–water relations; crop quality
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Interests: efficient water use; salinity; irrigation; natural stable isotope
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural water scarcity and soil fertility degradation were two critical problems that exposed great challenges to ensure crop production and food security around the world. Appropriate irrigation and fertilizer application could closely modulate crop physiology and growth in response to these challenges. However, the effect and mechanism of irrigation coupled with fertilization on improved nutrient/water utilization via crop water physiology, edaphology and plant nutrition still need further investigation. Therefore, the objective of this research topic was to gather the advanced studies on reasonable/novel fertilizer application (macro/micro-element fertilizer, nano-fertilizer, biofertilizer and CO2-fertilizer, etc.) for enhanced crop growth, nutrient and/or water use efficiency under various irrigation strategies (drip irrigation, subsurface irrigation, reduced irrigation and alternate partial root-zone irrigation as well as fertigation, etc.) and their interactive effects. The original research, meta-analysis articles and reviews/mini-reviews related to this topic were expected, and would provide some valuable acknowledge for achieving efficient water and fertilizer management in agricultural crops.
Dr. Zhenhua Wei
Dr. Zhenchang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fertilization
- irrigation
- crop physiology
- plant growth
- nutrient uptake
- water use efficiency
