Plant-Based Methods for Irrigation Scheduling of Woody Crops

Irrigation scheduling: advantages and pitfalls of plant-based methods.

This paper reviews the various methods available for irrigation scheduling, contrasting traditional water-balance and soil moisture-based approaches with those based on sensing of the plant response to water deficits. The main plant-based methods for irrigation scheduling, including those based on direct or indirect measurement of plant water status and those based on plant physiological respon...

Modelling Evapotranspiration of Container Crops for Irrigation Scheduling

Traditional and New Approaches to Irrigation Scheduling in Vegetable Crops

Intensive vegetable cropping systems use large amounts of water and nutrients. Excess application of water and nutrients results in economic losses (higher fertilizers and pumping costs) and contributes to nutrient leaching and environmental degradation. Increasing nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and water use efficiency (WUE) should be a priority for sustainable horticulture. This increased NUE,...

Hyperspectral remote sensing analysis of short rotation woody crops grown with controlled nutrient and irrigation treatments

Department of Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York, USA; Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA; USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Aiken, South Carolina, USA; Savannah River National Laboratory, Savannah River Site, US Department ...

Short Rotation Woody Crops for Industrial Applications

Purpose-grown trees have the potential to be a significant portion of the bioenergy solution in the Southeastern United States. Trees are a biomass source with existing end-use markets and associated infrastructure and provide a “living inventory” with a variety of benefits over annually harvested energy crops. The economic feasibility of utilizing tree woody biomass is improved by increasing p...