Water Use in Crop Production

Contents: Preface/M.B. Kirkham. 1. Agricultural water conservation--a global perspective/Paul W. Unger and Terry A. Howell. 2. Evapotranspiration responses of plants and crops to Carbon Dioxide and temperature/L.H. Allen, Jr. 3. Crop responses to water shortages/P.D. Jamieson. 4. Effect of irrigation water quality under supplementary irrigation on soil chemical and physical properties in the "Southern Humid Pampas" of Argentina/Jose Luis Costa. 5. Water use by the Olive tree/J.E. Fernandez and F. Moreno. 6. Canopy position and leaf age affect stomatal response and water use of citrus/T.M. Mills, K.T. Morgan and L.R. Parsons. 7. Long-term reuse of drainage waters of varying salinities for crop irrigation in a cotton-safflower rotation system in the San Joaquin Valley of California--a nine year study: I. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)/Sham S. Goyal, Surinder K. Sharma, Donald W. Rains and Andre Lauchli. 8. Long-term reuse of drainage waters of varying salinities for crop irrigation in a Cotton-Safflower Rotation System in the San Joaquin Valley of California--a nine year study: II. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)/Sham S. Goyal, Surinder K. Sharma, Donald W. Rains and Andre Lauchli. 9. Physiological parameters, harvest index and yield of deficient irrigated cotton/Bruria Heuer and A. Nadler. 10. Productive water use in rice production: opportunities and limitations/To Phuc Tuong. 11. Genotype and water limitation effects on transpiration efficiency in Sorghum/Mirianda Y. Mortlock and Graeme L. Hammer. 12. Hydraulic resistance of Sorghum (C4) and Sunflower (C3)/Jingxian Zhang and M.B. Kirkham. 13. Response of sunflowers to quantities of irrigation water, irrigation regimes and salinities in the water and soil/Z. Plaut and A. Grava. 14. Turfgrass Evapotranspiration/Bingru Huang and Jack D. Fry. 15. Wheat yield and water use as affected by Micro-basins and weed control on the sloping lands of Morocco/Ahmed Bouaziz and Hassan Chekli. 16. Risk assessment of the irrigation requirements of field crops in a maritime climate/S.R. Green, B.E. Clothier, T.M. Mills and A. Millar. Index.

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