Water use optimisation based on the concept of Partial Rootzone Drying

Partial Rootzone Drying (PRD) is the creation of simultaneous wet and dry (or drying) areas within the root zone. Only part of the root zone is irrigated and kept moist at any one time. This new irrigation strategy allows the exploitation of drought-induced abscisic acid (ABA) based root to stomata...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alaa El-Sadek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-03-01
Series:Ain Shams Engineering Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447913000907