The physiological basis for the advantage of alternate partial root-zone irrigation (PRI) over common deficit irrigation (DI) in improving crop water use efficiency (WUE) remains largely elusive. Here leaf gas exchange characteristics and photosynthetic CO(2)-response and light-response curves for maize (Zea mays L.) leaves exposed to PRI and DI were analysed under three N-fertilization rates, ...

Soil nitrogen is one of the crucial components for plant growth. An accurate diagnosis based on soil nitrogen information is the premise of scientific fertilization in precision agriculture. Soil nitrogen content acquisition based on near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy shows the significant advantages of high accuracy, real-time analysis, and convenience. However, soil texture, soil moisture conte...

This study determined whether the field level concentration of root zone CO2 affects transpiration rate and root water transport in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.). In an upland field converted from a paddy field, topsoil CO2 during the cropping season rose to 8 kPa of partial pressure after rainfall, whereas O2 dropped only to a minimum of 7 kPa. An elevated root zone CO2 pressure of 6 kPa sign...

The research project Info4Dourou 2.0 's main goal is to improve agriculture in semi-arid regions by developing a support system that optimizes agricultural production and water consumption based on continuous soil humidity measurements using a sensor network. In this context, the main purpose of the study was to give more scienti c support to the agronomic model on which the sensor network is b...

ment, TR-21 was generally recognized to be applicable to areas receiving low intensity rainfall, and to soils that Effective rainfall (ER) is the portion of total rainfall that plants have high infiltration rates (Dastane, 1974). The data use to help meet their consumptive water requirements, and is an important component of water resource budgeting for irrigation. The used to develop the ER eq...

The effects of drip irrigation and different cultivation methods on seedgermination and growth of Puccinellia tenuiflora in saline-sodic soils wereinvestigated in field experiments during 2008-2010 in the Songnen Plain, China.Drip irrigation was applied to waste saline-sodic P. tenuiflora grasslands for bothflat and ridge cultivation methods. Drip irrigation affected the distributions ofelectri...

mates of the temporal and spatial root water uptake patterns are needed. Quantification of root water exAlthough solutions of multidimensional transient water flow can traction rates also contributes to an improved underbe obtained by numerical modeling, their application may be limited in part as root water uptake is generally considered to be one-dimenstanding of chemical fluxes in the vadose...

The sustainable development of efficient water-saving agricultural irrigation in Loess Plateau requires reasonable and quantitative planning, design, management, and strategies based on crop-water-salt response relationship. In the present paper, data were measured by using the soil-water-salt sensor CS655 to modify the simulation of root uptake in the original Soil Water Atmosphere Plant (SWAP...