Response of Crop Plant Growth and Water Use to Different Irrigation Regimes

Dear Colleagues,

With global warming, drought has become a key constraint for agricultural productivity. The frequency of droughts will significantly increase under climate changes, especially in arid/semi-arid regions. Therefore, efficient irrigation management is central to the challenge of balancing increasing drought events and water demands.

Recent progress have revealed regulation of irrigation scheduling on crop growth and development, yield and its composition, and have developed models for simulating crop response to irrigation scheduling at different growing stages. While mechanism and simulation of crop physiological response to different irrigation regimes challenge our current understanding. This Special Issue aims to bring light into the complexity of irrigation management on crop phenotype, physiological and biochemical process under different scenarios.

Characterize and quantify responses of crop physiology and biochemistry to different irrigation regimes; Priming of irrigation on crop physiology and yield; Regulation of phytohormone on crop growth and yield formation under difference scenarios of irrigation: from cell to plant; Water and nutrients transport from root to shoot under different irrigation regimes.  

Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited.

Dr. Yang Gao
Guest Editor

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