Soil Improvement and the Efficient Utilization of Water and Fertilizer in Greenhouse Crops
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Agroecology Innovation: Achieving System Resilience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 36560
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drip fertigation; migration of water and nutrient in soil; water and fertilizer productivity; plant-water-nutrient relations; isotope tracing; crop growth model
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Interests: irrigation water use efficiency; crop science; crop modelling; soil science; water and fertilizer management; plant nutrition; water-fertilizer interaction
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Interests: water-saving irrigation; water-fertilizer productivity; soil improvement; soil salinity; root rot disease; biochar; water-soil-crop relationships in intercropping systems
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Interests: slow release fertilizer; drip fertigation; water and fertilizer productivity; nitrogen cycle
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We encourage you to submit papers for an important Special Issue on “Soil Improvement and the Efficient Utilization of Water and Fertilizer in Greenhouse Crops”. Greenhouses are one of the most important facilities for the production of winter–spring crops all over the world. Greenhouse crops play an important role in balancing the human dietary structure and increasing farmers' income. However, due to people's one-sided pursuit of yield, excessive fertilization and unreasonable irrigation are common in the process of greenhouse management. At the same time, the multiple cropping index is high, and the farming system as well as environment are special, which lead to low water and fertilizer use efficiency in addition to secondary salinization, acidification and hardening, and imbalances in the nutrient balances of soils in greenhouses. These phenomena lead to serious damage to soil ecological environments, thus affecting crop quality and human health. This Special Issue invites studies (including, e.g., original research, technology reports, modelling approaches and methods, opinion articles, perspectives, invited reviews, and mini-reviews) that focus on advanced field management technology, tools, or materials to improve soil and enhance crop quality as well as water and fertilizer use efficiency in greenhouses.
Dr. Haidong Wang
Prof. Dr. Xiukang Wang
Dr. Jiaping Liang
Dr. Jinjin Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- irrigation
- fertilization
- biochar
- water and fertilizer use efficiency
- soil environment
- greenhouse gas
- greenhouse crop quality
- plant disease
- crop growth model
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