Engineering drought -resistant crop plants is a critically important objective. Overexpression of the vacuolar H(+)-pyrophosphatase (H(+)-PPase) AVP1 in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana results in enhanced performance under soil water deficits. Recent work demonstrates that AVP1 plays an important role in root development through the facilitation of auxin fluxes. With the objective of impro...

Win ISAREG is a model for performing soil water balance and estimating impacts of water stress on yields for crops, concentrating on the evaluation of irrigation scheduling. The soil water balance of different type of soil and crop were study in the typical semiarid Horqin Sandy land area in this paper. With the data from Agula experimental station and concentrate on site A3 with Artemisia and ...

somayyeh bayat and ali sepehri * department of agronomy and plant breeding, faculty of agricultre, bu-ali sina university of hamedan, iran       *corresponding author: e-mail. [email protected], [email protected]   received: 31 may 2012  accepted: 8 october 2012   abstract growth and yield of maize is seriously restricted by water deficit. salicylic acid (sa) and paclobutrazol )pbz) indu...

Background Under field conditions, the development of crops depends on capacity of the canopy to intercept incident radiation and convert it into new biomass (Gifford et al. 1984). The amount of incident radiation intercepted depends on the leaf area index (LAI) and canopy orientation in space. The fraction of the incident photosynthetically active radiation (IPAR) that is absorbed by a canopy ...

A major challenge in rice (Oryza sativa L.) production is to enhance water use efficiency (WUE) and maintain or even increase grain yield. WUE, if defined as the biomass accumulation over water consumed, may be fairly constant for a given species in given climate. WUE can be enhanced by less irrigation. However, such enhancement is largely a trade-off against lower biomass production. If WUE is...

in order to study of sodium nitroprusside(snp) application effect on growth indices and water use efficiency of kidney beans cultivars(akhtar and derakhshan) under water deficit stress, an experiment was conducted in split factorial based in randomized complete block design with three replications in bu-ali sina university research field at 2012. water stress treatments included vegetative stre...

To improve the management of irrigation district is a key to develop water-saving agriculture. Based on the basic principles of water-saving irrigation, and using the method of Modified Penman Monteith and water balance equation, The system of irrigation management and decision support based on WEBGIS was developed,which is according to the soil moisture, crop growth status, meteorology change ...

Water stress in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) causes considerable losses in yield, and therefore, potato is often considered to be a drought sensitive crop. Identification of water deficit tolerant potato genotypes is an adaptation strategy to mitigate the climatic changes that are occurring in the Cundiboyacense region in Colombia. Previous studies have evaluated potato plants under water stre...

the research was carried out to study the effect of controlled deficit irrigation (cdi) on quality and quantity of sugar beet in bardsir region of kerman and karaj during 2005- 2006. in this experiment, 11 irrigation treatments were studied in a randomized complete block design with three replicates. crop water requirement was calculated in two- day periods. the treatments were implemented in d...