Water Management and Water Relations of Horticultural Crops: Introduction to the Colloquium

Salinity±mineral nutrient relations in horticultural crops

The relations between salinity and mineral nutrition of horticultural crops are extremely complex and a complete understanding of the intricate interactions involved would require the input from a multidisciplinary team of scientists. This review addresses the nutrient elements individually and we emphasise research directed towards the organ, whole-plant and field level. We have attempted to s...

Water Management and Plant Performance in a Changing Climate: Introduction to Colloquium

Climate change refers to any significant shift or variability in temperature, precipitation, humidity, light, or wind. These changes may be of relatively short duration or last for an extended period that could be decades or longer [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007)]. Throughout history, earth’s climate has been changing naturally. However, the rapid warming we have been w...

Consideration of Water Productivity for Farm Water Management in Different Conditions of Water Availability for Dominant Summer Crops

ABSTRACT- Efficient use of irrigation water for summer crops should be considered seriously due to rare occurrence of precipitation in summer. This research was focused on the assessment of water use efficiency for dominant crops of summer cropping pattern in the study area (i.e., maize and rice) via considering water productivity (WP) with different water management scenarios at farm level at ...

Soil and ground water salintty and their relations to physiography

Water requirement of crops in Khuzestan province

One of the effective steps in use of water resources is accurate estimation of plants water requirement. Lack of accurate estimation of this amount leads to water loss and failure to achieve optimum yield, reduced potential of production, soil resources degradation by too much irrigation or lack of enough leaching and salinization of soils by irrigation less than necessary level, which would ul...