Water stress is among the dominant yield limiting factors in global crop production. Better drought resistance is therefore a key challenge for breeding and crop management. Avoidance of water stress by effective root water uptake is considered a promising approach to yield stability in water limiting environments. Water uptake efficiency is the result of multiple plant root traits that dynamic...

GOSSYM is a comprehensive crop growth model that has been continuously developed since the late 1970s and widely applied to assist cotton growers, crop consultants, and researchers. The state-of-art CWRF (Climate-Weather Research and Forecasting model) demonstrated skillful simulations of regional water and energy cycle processes that are keenly important to cotton growth. This study focuses on...

Plants in their natural habitats adapt to drought stress in the environment through a variety of mechanisms, ranging from transient responses to low soil moisture to major survival mechanisms of escape by early flowering in absence of seasonal rainfall. However, crop plants selected by humans to yield products such as grain, vegetable, or fruit in favorable environments with high inputs of wate...

Crop coefficient values are used to estimate crop evapotranspiration (ETc) for determining irrigation scheduling. Many important crop biophysical properties such as Percentage Vegetation Cover and Leaf Area Index can be estimated from remotely sensed Vegetation Index, in order to quantify real time vegetation growth dynamics. The objective of this study was to understand the effectiveness of ba...

Impacts of salinity become severe when the soil is deficient in oxygen. Oxygation (using aerated water for subsurface drip irrigation of crop) could minimize the impact of salinity on plants under oxygen-limiting soil environments. Pot experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of oxygation (12% air volume/volume of water) on vegetable soybean (moderately salt tolerant) and cotton (salt...

The aim of the present investigation was to study the growth, yield and yield components of maize (Zea mays L.) single cross 704 under different levels of irrigation, plant density, and ethephon in southern Iran where this particular crop has not yet been studied in detail. A field experiment was performed in the 2004 5 growing season at the experimental farm of the College of Agriculture, Shir...

the aim of the present investigation was to study the growth, yield and yield components of maize (zea mays l.) single cross 704 under different levels of irrigation, plant density, and ethephon in southern iran where this particular crop has not yet been studied in detail. a field experiment was performed in the 2004 5 growing season at the experimental farm of the college of agriculture, shir...

in order to study the effects of drought stress on yield and yield components of safflower genotypes, a split plot based on randomized complete block design with four replications was performed at the research field, islamic azad university, arak, iran during summer of 2009. irrigation treatments included three levels of 100, 75 and 50% crop water requirement and four levels of safflower genoty...