Enhancing Phytoremediation Efficiency Using Regulated Deficit Irrigation

Enhancing Phytoremediation Efficiency in Response to Environmental Pollution Stress

Increasing phytoremediation efficiency and reliability using novel omics approaches.

Phytoremediation is a cost-effective green alternative to traditional soil remediation technologies, but has experienced varied success in practice. The recent omics revolution has led to leaps in our understanding of soil microbial communities and plant metabolism, and some of the conditions that promote predictable activity in contaminated soils and heterogeneous environments. Combinations of...

Optimal deficit irrigation using AquaCrop model: a methodology study

Both developing and developed countries have problems with availability of water to increase agricultural productivity. The importance of improving water efficiency in agriculture has been the subject in many research papers. The usual approach to limit water consumption in agriculture at the district and farm level is to apply water quotas. These quotas may be either for the whole season or fo...

Forecasting deficit irrigation adoption using a mixed stakeholder assessment methodology

a Dept. Economía de la Empresa, Área de Economía, Sociología y Política Agraria, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48, 30203, Cartagena, Spain b CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Private Bag 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia c School of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, 35, Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia d Dept. Economía Aplicada, Un...

Global Optimization of Deficit Irrigation Systems Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Water is a limited resource and the dramatically increasing world population requires a significant increase in food production. For improving both crop yield and water use efficiency, the usual optimization strategy in irrigation at the field level considers scheduling parameters, i.e. when and how much to irrigate, as well as control parameters, i.e. the intensity and the irrigation time, for...