Crop Water Stress and Deficit Irrigation
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Use and Scarcity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2022) | Viewed by 44056
Special Issue Editor
Interests: irrigation management; deficit irrigation; climate change; plant ecophysiology; water stress; water relations; water footprint; water use efficiency; water productivity; water saving; droughts and water scarcity; plant nutrition; evapotranspiration and plant modelling
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Dear Colleagues,
Freshwater is the most essential resource for the survival of all organisms, including humans. Only 2.5% of the planet’s capital stock is freshwater, and most of it is stored in glaciers and deep groundwater, only a small amount being easily available. All of this, combined with increasing anthropogenic pressure, is turning water scarcity into a widespread concern in many parts of the world. Further, climate change is expected to disrupt hydrological regimes and the availability of water.
In this sense, agriculture is the largest freshwater user. Additionally, its continued growth is increasing the severity of water scarcity and the frequency of imbalance situations between water supply and demand occurring in agrosystems around the world, which are facing growing pressure to reduce water use. These facts highlight the need to maximize crop water productivity. Moreover, among the tools that growers can use to achieve this goal, there should be more precise irrigation strategies and scheduling procedures that will protect water resources and their integrity for their future use.
Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to gather innovative and novel approaches in management or modeling deficit irrigation strategies, as well as research on tools and mechanisms involved in the response of crops to water stress.
All types of manuscripts (original research, reviews, etc.) are welcome.
Dr. Alejandro Galindo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- irrigation management
- deficit irrigation
- water stress
- water relations
- water use efficiency
- water productivity
- water saving
- crop model
- evapotranspiration