Nowadays, lack of irrigation water is critical factor that reduce horticultural crop production
and productivity. This serious shortage of irrigation water requires improvement of our …

ABSTRACT A half-root stress is a half portion of the root system exposed to treatment while
the remaining half portion kept under normal conditions. A half-root stress including half-root …

Many modern rice varieties have been intensively selected for high‐yielding performance
under irrigated conditions, reducing their genetic diversity and potentially increasing their …

Soil moisture patterns arise from the combined processes induced by vegetation, soil
properties, climate, topography, parent material, and time. In this chapter, we focus on how …

Sugarcane is an important part of the economy in tropical and subtropical countries where it
is used for the extraction of commercially produced sucrose, as well as a biomass resource …

Axelle Koch, Félicien Meunier, Harry Vereecken, and Mathieu Javaux (2018). Root
processes affecting soil moisture patterns in ecohydrology. In: Li X, Vereecken H, eds …

Plants sustain microorganisms, for example, bacteria, around and inside their roots. These
communities of microorganisms are referred to as root-associated microbiomes. The …

In horticultural sectors where water is a threatened resource, altering irrigation frequency
may present a viable approach to reduce water use, without any negative effect on crop …

Deep-rooted agricultural crops can potentially utilize deep-water pools and thus reduce
periods where growth is water limited. Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) is known to be deep …

Since the advent of agriculture, humans have been working to improve the growth of crop
plants. Historically, a major focus of research has been plant genetics and using traditional …