The experiment was investigated to survey of yield and yield components of sunflower cultivars under drought stress in 2012 in Kabootatabad of Esfahan farm. An experiment was conducted in split plot and was designed in randomized complete block with three replications. Irrigation was as main plots in 3 levels (control (normal irrigation), irrigation of 130 mm evaporation from pan evaporation, i...

Over the past few decades, the competition for freshwater resources has substantially increased in arid/semi-arid areas, exacerbating the pressure on the largest user of water, namely agriculture, to consume less water. However, reducing crop consumptive water use or evapotranspiration through water stress can have a negative impact on production economics if not precisely managed. Remote sensi...

Reuse of partially treated domestic wastewater for agricultural irrigation is a growing practice in arid regions throughout the world. A field sampling campaign to determine bioaerosol concentration, culturability, and identity at various wind speeds was conducted at a flooded wastewater irrigation site in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Direct fluorescent microscopy measurements for total a...

Due to excessive exploitation of groundwater resources to meet crop irrigation requirement, shallow groundwater table is falling at the rate of about 1m/y for the last 20 years in North China plain, which has caused many ecological and environmental problems. A kind of non-linear multi-year optimization model of groundwater resources allocation (MOGA) has been developed to decrease groundwater ...

Abstract To study the effect of water stress in rapeseed cultivars at the seedling stage, 10 rapeseed cultivars were evaluated at three irrigation levels [normal irrigation (control) and irrigation after depletion of 60 and 85% of available soil water]. Analysis of variance showed considerable variation among cultivars. Water stress reduced all of the studied morphological characteristics, espe...

A one year drought was simulated in 1989 on mature conventionally spaced cv. Chico walnuts. A controlled deficit irrigation (~DI) regime was used to apply 16 inches of water for the season. Yield in that year was not significantly different than fully irrigated (41 inches) trees. The CDI trees were returned to full irrigation in 1990. This year, nut yield was dramatically lower due to about an ...

A research was conducted in Southern Italy to study the changes in seed yield, oil content andfatty acids composition, in response to irrigation at different stages of growing season (at sowing,Dry; from sowing to beginning of flowering, S-BF; from visible bud to 75% flowering, VB-FF;from beginning of flowering to seed ripening, BF-M; from sowing to seed ripening, Full), in astandard sunflower ...