The great challenge of the agricultural sector is to produce more crop from less water, which can be achieved by increasing crop water productivity. The modernization of the irrigation systems offers a number of possibilities to expand the economic productivity of water and improve the virtual water status. The objective of the present study is to assess the global water productivity (GWP) with...

In the U.S., where heavy use of insecticides has been commonplace for years, the development of proper integrated insect pest control cannot get underway unless there is a changed use pattern for such chemicals. A changed use pattern, however, cannot be accomplished without much study to establish the requirements for integrated control for each major crop situation. In this paper recent develo...

In the present communication, two exponential fuzzy information measures are introduced and characterized axiomatically. To show the effectiveness of the proposed measure, it is compared with the existing measures. Two fuzzy discrimination and symmetric discrimination measures are defined and their validity are checked. Important properties of new measures are studied. Their applications in pat...

prediction of weed emergence timing would help minimize crop yield loss and reducing herbicide use by optimization of the timing of weed control. therefore, seedling emergence evaluation was conducted in different irrigation levels (40, 60, 80, 100 percent of crop water requirement and furrow irrigation) to develop a thermal time seedling emergence model for amaranthus retroflexus l. in sunflow...

the most problematic weed in summer crops in alashthar town is ground cherry (physalis divaricata). in this research, the emergence pattern of this weed in sugar beet and wheat crop was investigated during 2006- 2007. seed dormancy was also studied from october to may in two depths 0 and 10 cm, based on a factorial experiment. the results indicated that the emergence of this weed starts late ap...

drought is one of the most important factors limiting crop yields around the world. drought stress in plants, the change (increase or decrease) in the production of plant proteins. this research was carried out using bread wheat genotypes. for evaluation of leaf protein pattern in wheat, 10 genotypes were assayed with 3 replications under irrigated (non-stress) and rain-fed (stress) conditions....

Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a promising remote sensing signal for early stress detection due to its close link with photosynthesis. Canopy SIF signals are controlled by leaf physiology, canopy structure, radiation intensity and sun-observer geometry. Variations in observations affected variations these controlling factors besides water stress. Mitigating the interference of no...