Plant root systems are exposed to spatial and temporal heterogeneity regarding water availability. In the long-term, compensation, increased uptake by roots in areas with favorable conditions response decreased under stress, is driven growth distribution. short-term (hours–days), compensative processes less understood. We hypothesized hydraulic compensation where local lowered availability acco...

Drip irrigation (DI) has been widely utilized for crops and its water-saving effect confirmed by numerous studies. However, whether this technology can save so much water under the field scale during practical application is still uncertain. In order to answer question, evapotranspiration (ET), soil content, transpiration evaporation over DI border (BI) in an arid area of NW China were continuo...

Leaching of glyphosate and AMPA as affected by the time elapsed between spraying first leaching event was studied on large-scale lysimeters in a two-year study. The events were induced irrigation interventions able to deliver 336 L, equivalent rainfall 40 mm. Four groups three randomly selected 12 available. They irrigated either one day after herbicide treatment (1 DAT), 7 DAT, 14 DAT or 28 DA...