Optimizing Plant Water Use Efficiency for a Sustainable Environment

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to present this Special Issue focused on the most remarkable research experiences about water use efficiency in agriculture, specially under semi-arid conditions and Climate Change scenarios.

Water scarcity is the most limiting constraint in agriculture, together with the soil degradation and the imbalance between sustainability, competitiveness and food demand. In this agreement it is worth to deepen about those strategies and production systems able to reach competitive yields, enhancing the quality of products, preserving the food security, and all of them, within an equilibrium in environmental terms.

Implementing new tools to assess the crop water status, monitoring the continuous soil-plant-atmosphere system, or integrating information systems based on big-data and smart farming tools will reinforce the actual knowledge to offer an appropriate response to the actual challenges to achieve a higher water use efficiency in irrigated and rainfed systems. Moreover, the introduction of resilient crops to water scarcity scenarios or the strengthening of sustainable practices of water resources management will enhance the consolidation of rural population, the agricultural competitiveness and the environmental sustainability.

Dr. Ivan Francisco Garcia Tejero
Dr. Victor Hugo Durán-Zuazo
Guest Editors

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