Water-Soil-Crop Relationships in Agriculture Production
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2372
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: agricultural soil and water environment; efficient utilization of water and fertilizer for crops, water-soil-crop relationships in dryland agriculture
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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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is still a long-term challenge to ensure food security and sustainable agricultural development in the world. The water-soil-crop relationships, which is a key process in the agricultural production, play an important role in ensuring food security and maintaining sustainable agricultural development. However, water-soil-crop relationships were very complex and still not well-understood in different agricultural production processes. It resulted in a fact that, in order to obtain higher crop yield, extensive irrigation and fertilization management measures were usually applied in the agricultural production process, which has resulted in soil deterioration, crop yield reduction, and serious agricultural non-point source pollution, further restricting the sustainable development of agriculture. The objective of this Special Issue was therefore to focus on water-soil-crop relationships in agriculture production for ensuring food security and achieving precision irrigation agriculture and agricultural sustainability.
Potential topics that included but are not limited to the following:
- Migration of soil water and nutrient in farmland irrigation and fertilization production
- Water and fertilizer use indicators of increasing yield and improving quality in crop productivity
- Development of novel soil conditioner (water-retaining agent, bio-organic fertilizer, biochar et al.) to cope with problematic Soils (such as saline-alkali soil, acid soil, poor soil aggregate structure, and soil diseases caused by successive crops).
Dr. Haidong Wang
Prof. Dr. Qiliang Yang
Dr. Jiaping Liang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- migration of water and nutrient in soil
- water and fertilizer productivity
- plant-water-nutrient relations
- agricultural soil and water environment
- efficient utilization of water and fertilizer for crops
- water-saving irrigation
- water-fertilizer productivity
- soil improvement
- soil salinity
- root rot disease
- biochar
