Forests play a critical role in the hydrological cycle making the study of water use by trees and forest stands of prime importance in the global change context .Very negative effects of increasing and more intense droughts on forest vegetation have been described over the last decades. Symptoms...

For a certain overall deficit target, this paper develops a methodology (Optimized Regulated Deficit Irrigation (ORDI)) for determining the stress level (in terms of the rate between actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) and maximum evapotranspiration (ETm)) that can be applied to each growth...

This study assesses the usefulness of the remote scheduling of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) in almond based on the maximum daily trunk shrinkage signal intensity (SIMDS). The 2-year experiment was carried out in SE Spain on 12-year-old almond trees (Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A. Webb cv....

The performance of ‘Hass’ avocado trees grown in lysimeters under different irrigation regimes obtained by manipulating drip irrigation frequency and root volume was examined. The experimental design comprised six treatments (3×2) with three irrigation frequencies and two container volumes...

The use of thermal imaging represents a substantial progress in monitoring plant water status and therefore drought stress in field conditions. However, the effective use of thermal imaging requires consistent methods for data acquisition and image analysis. We determined the temperature...

A field study on purple basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) was carried out to determine the effect of different irrigation water levels in 2007 and 2008 in the research field of Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, in Turkey. Four irrigation treatments were determined as the irrigation water being...

Water and nitrogen supply in potato cropping systems is an essential factor for controlling production level especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Shortage water availability and escalating irrigation costs along with high prices of fertilizers have caused attention to adopt practices to...

Field experiments were conducted at Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore, India during 2007–2009 to study the effect of deficit irrigation practices implemented through drip irrigation system on cotton–maize cropping sequence. Creation of soil moisture gradient is...

Variable and unreliable water supply due to drought substantially reduced irrigation allocation to Australian peach growers from 2005 to 2009. Strategies to maintain productivity with less water were a high priority. Reduced irrigation allocation is likely to continue due to drought and...

A field experiment was performed in two drip-irrigated seedless table grape vineyards (Vitis vinifera L. cv. Autumn Royal and Crimson) from 2007 to 2009 in a semiarid area of north-eastern Spain to evaluate the effect of post veraison regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) on the grape yield and...