Irrigation Schedules Based on Plants, Soil and Meteorological Indicators

Dear Colleagues,

With the world population approaching 8 billion, there is an urgent need to produce enough food to meet people’s development needs. However, the water shortages caused by the intensification of global climate change are increasingly negatively influencing the development of irrigation agriculture, as well as crop production. Advanced irrigation technology and optimal irrigation schedules could improve agricultural water use efficiency, and thus achieve sustainable development. The irrigation schedule is a key management tool for solving the problem of when to irrigate and how much irrigation to apply, which is crucial for the enhancement of WUE (water usage efficiency). Irrigation scheduling can be performed using information regarding plant, soil, and meteorological factors, such as the leaf cell turgor pressure, stem diameter, sap flow, soil water content, soil water potential, cumulative radiation, cumulative temperature, reference crop evapotranspiration (ET₀), etc. Therefore, it is of great significance to launch a Special Issue on irrigation schedules based on plant, soil, and meteorological indicators to deepen readers' understanding of irrigation decision-making techniques, theories, and models, and to promote academic exchanges in the field of irrigation among experts around the world.

This Special Issue aims to collate the latest cutting-edge research and advances in irrigation schedules based on plant, soil, and meteorological indicators. Research articles, review articles, and short communications are invited.

Prof. Xiaosen Wang
Prof. Dr. Haijun Liu
Guest Editors

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