Water

Breeding Crops that do Better Under Water Stress

Moisture stress studies in different chickpea types
J. Kumar, N. Dhiman, S.S. Yadav, Jens Berger, Neil C. Turner and Dhirendra Singh

Two New Food Hull-Less Barley Varieties For Rainfed In Egypt
A.A. EL-Sayed, R.A. Abo El-Enein, A.S. El-Gamal, A.A. El-Sherbiny, M.A. El-Moselhy, M.A. Megahed, A.A. El-Hag, A.M.O. El-Bawab, M.T. Abdelhamid, K.A. Amer, R.A. Rizk, S. Grando, M.A. Said, H.A. Ashmawy, S.I. Abaas, M.Z. Shendy and M.I El-Hawary

Amalgamation of drought adaptation and high productivity in arid zone pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
O.P. Yadav, Fran R. Bidinger, C.T. Hash and Rachid Serraj

Screening for late season drought tolerance in wheat genotypes grown in Iran
Goodarz Najafian, Akbar Ghandi and Hassan Abdi

Improving water use efficiency and drought tolerance in groundnut by trait based breeding programmes in India
M.S. Basu and P. C. Nautiyal

Enhancing Water Productivity in Irrigated Rice
Parminder Virk, Sant S. Virmani, V. Lopena and R. Cabangon

Adaptation of photosynthetic components of chickpea to water stress
P.S. Basu, Masood Ali and S.K. Chaturvedi

Wild Helianthus anomalus and H. deserticola from the Desert Southwest USA: a Potential Source of Stress Genes for Cultivated Sunflower
Gerald J. Seiler

Genetics for Improving Crop Water Use Efficiency
Zhengbin Zhang, Ping Xu and Jizeng Jia

Increasing crop-water productivity through genetic improvement for tolerance to water stresses in maize (Zea mays L.)
Pervez H. Zaidi, Ganesan Srinivasan and N.N. Singh

Recent Advances in the Marker-Assisted Selection for Drought Tolerance in Pearl Millet
Rachid Serraj, C.T. Hash, Rattan S. Yadav and Fran R. Bidinger

A Midwestern USA Perspective on Water Use Efficiency and Drought Tolerance in the Soybean
James E. Specht

Developing high yielding wheat for water limited environments in northern Australia
John T. Christopher, Andrew K. Borrell, A.M. Manschadi, Graeme Hammer and Scott Chapman

Differences in drought avoidance root characteristics among several millet species
Walter Zegada-Lizarazu and Morio Iijima

Heritability of Drought–Resistance Traits in Peanut
Alan Cruickshank, Arnaud Dowkiw, Graeme Wright, NageswaraRao C. Rachaputi and Shyam Nigam

Morpho-agronomical variation among diverse lentil genotypes under rainfed environments in Nepal
R Shrestha, K.H.M. Siddique, David W. Turner and Neil C. Turner

Enhancing adaptation of large-seeded kabuli chickpea to drought prone environments
S.S. Yadav, J. Kumar, Neil C. Turner, F.J. Muehlbauer, E.J. Knights, Bob Redden, David McNeil and Jens Berger

Genotypic differences for drought resistance in Lablab purpureus L.
Cristine Hall and B.P. Naidu

Genotypic variation in tropical maize for growth maintenance under drought.
Claude Welcker, Jean-Marcel Ribaut, Bertrand Muller and François Tardieu

Identification of drought tolerant sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) cultivars
Prabawardani Saraswati, Mark Johnston, Ross Coventry and Joseph Holtu

Effect of Drought Tolerance on Preharvest Aflatoxin Contamination in Peanut
C. C. Holbrook, B. Z. Guo, D. M. Wilson, and C. K. Kvien.

 

Irrigated Rice-Based Systems

Increasing Water Productivity and Growth of Rice with Less Irrigation Water
Jong Gun Won, Jang Soo Choi and Seung Phil Lee

The water balance on sloping land in rainfed lowland rice ecosystem
M. Tsubo, Shu Fukai, Jayampathi Basnayake, To Phuc Tuong, Bas A.M. Bouman and Dome Harnpichitvitaya

The water balance on sloping land in rainfed lowland rice ecosystem
Riaz A. Mann, Waqar A. Jehangir and I. Masih

Addressing water scarcity in dry seeded lowland rice
Jose Mathew, K. Mohanasarida and O.N. Resmi

Reducing the impact of muddy water on rice crop establishment
Siva Sivapalan, K. Yin Chan and Nicholas Addison

Growing rice on raised beds in south-eastern Australia.
B.W. Dunn, S.K. Mathews, H.G. Beecher, J.A. Thompson and E. Humphreys

Increasing rainfed rice productivity in Central Java, Indonesia: a modeling approach
Anita Boling, Bas A.M. Bouman, To Phuc Tuong, Sigit Y. Jatmiko, Maddala V.R. Murty, Hendrika H. VanLaar and Herman van Keulen

Performance of rice cultivars under different resource conservation techniques
C. Venkata Reddy, R.K.Malik and Yadav Asho

Water productivity of rice crop in irrigated areas
Waqar A. Jehangir, Hugh Turral and I. Masih

Performance of wheat on beds and flats in Punjab, India
Anil Prashar, S. Thaman, A. Nayyar, E. Humphreys, S.S. Dhillon, Yadvinder Singh, P.R. Gajri, Jagadish Timsina and D.J. Smith

Use of raised beds for increasing wheat production in rice-wheat cropping systems.
M.Ilias. Hossain, Craig Meisner, J.M. Duxbury, J.G. Lauren, M.M. Rahman, M.M. Meer and M.H. Rashid

Bed planting: A new technique to diversify/intensify rice-wheat system in India
S.C. Tripathi, A.D. Mongia, D.S. Chauhan, R.K. Sharma, A.S. Kharub, R.S. Chhokar and Jag Shoran

Mitigating water scarcity through an aerobic system of rice production
Ambrocio R. Castañeda, Bas A.M. Bouman, Shaobing Peng and Romeo M. Visperas

Comparison of Productivity of System of Rice Intensification and Conventional Rice Farming Systems in the Dry-Zone Region of Sri Lanka
Sarath P. Nissanka and Thilak Bandara

Agronomic performance of tropical aerobic, irrigated, and traditional upland rice varieties in three hydrological environments at IRRI
G.N. Atlin, M. Laza, M. Amante, and H.R. Lafitte

Study on permanent-bed-planting with double zero tillage for rice and wheat in Sichuan Basin
Yonglu Tang, Jiaguo Zheng, Gang Huang and Jinquan Du

Planting pattern affects root system development, resistance to water transport, and afternoon depression in photosynthesis in rice plants
Yumiko San-oh, Daisaku Yoshita, Taiichiro Ookawa and Tadashi Hirasawa

 

Physiology and Improving Productivity Under Water Scarcity

• Root Specific

Phosphorus Nutrition Affects Root Morphology Response to Water Deficit at Different Reproductive Stages in an Early Soybean Cultivar
Jin Jian, Wang Guanghua and Liu Xiaobing

Effect of root damage due to simulated and real whitegrub attack on physio- biochemical characters of groundnut under various soil moisture levels
Neelam Yadav and Vijay K Yadav

Measurement of the depth of water extraction by individual plants in a plant nursery, with 18O.
Jean-Louis Durand, Thierry Bariac, Mia Victoria Gonzalez Dugo, Marc Ghesquière, Patricia Richard and Philippe Biron

Effect of Root Exudates on Drought and Aflatoxin Resistance of Peanut Genotypes
Janjira Puntase, Chuckree Senthong, Sawit Meechoui and Keith T. Ingram

Root traits of different crops under rainfed conditions in the High Barind Tract, Bangladesh
M. Yusuf Ali, Selim Ahmed, Chris Johansen, D. Harris and J.V.D.K. KumarRao

Effects of Mepiquat Chloride on Lateral Roots Initiation of Cotton Seedling and Its Mechanism
Liusheng Duan, Xiaoli Tian, Yi Zhang, Zuoshun Tang, Zhixi Zhai and Zhongpei He

Penetration of hardpans by roots of wheat under drought
Tina Botwright and Len Wade

Effect of semi-dwarf genes on the root penetration ability of wheat
Katashi Kubo, Yutaka Jitsuyama, Kazuto Iwama, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Akira Yanagisawa, Ismahane Elouafi and Miloudi M. Nachit

Root growth of canola and wheat in the deep yellow sands of the northern sandplain of the Western Australian wheat belt.
Stephen P. Milroy, Senthold Asseng and Michael L. Poole

Development of the Root System of Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Analyzed by the Root Box Method
Ryosuke Tajima, Shigenori Morita and Jun Abe

Developing testable hypotheses on the impacts of sub-soil constraints on crops and croplands using the cropping systems simulator APSIM.
Zvi Hochman, Merv Probert and Neal P. Dalgliesh

Soil exploration by sorghum root systems in wide row cropping systems
Ian Broad and Graeme Hammer

Effects of chemical subsoil constraints on lower limit of plant available water for crops grown in southwest Queensland
Yash Dang, Richard Routley, Michael McDonald, Ram Dalal, Vanessa Alsemgeest and Denis Orange

• WUE and drought resistance models

Improving harvest index is an effective way to increase crop water use efficiency
Jianhua Zhang and Jianchang Yang

Variation in Water-use Efficiency of Peanut Varieties Across Peanut Production Regions
Diane Rowland, Paul Blankenship, Naveen Puppala, John Beasley, Mark Burow, Dan Gorbet, David Jordan, Hassan Melouk, Charles Simpson and Jim Bostick

Traits for improved drought resistance of winter wheat in the UK
M. John Foulkes, Vinesh Verma, Roger Sylvester-Bradley, Richard Weightman and John W Snape

Variation in shoot and root growth in primary synthetic wheats - implications for overcoming water deficits in marginal environments
Fernanda Dreccer, Francis Ogbonnaya, Gabriela Borgognone and Jayne Wilson

Drought effect on water use efficiency of berseem clover at various growth stages
Martha Lazaridou and S.D. Koutroubas

Drought resistance of NERICA (New Rice for Africa) compared with Oryza sativa L. and millet evaluated by stomatal conductance and soil water content
Michihiko Fujii, Chika Andoh and Seiji Ishihara

Using a Crop Growth Model to Hypothesize Genetic Traits to Improve Peanut Yield under Water-Limited Environments
K. J. Boote

Comparative response of maize (Zea mays L.) and sorghum (Sorghum bicolour L. Moench) to irrigation deficit in a Mediterranean climate
Imma Farré, José María Faci

Water-Saving Strategies in Rain-fed Farming Systems
Xi-Ping Deng, Lun Shan, Sui-Qi Zhang, Shinobu I Nanaga and Neil C. Turner

Transpiration efficiency in a segregating population of sunflower: Inheritance, correlation with other traits and association with hybrid grain yield
Christopher J. Lambrides, Scott Chapman and Ray Shorter

• Effects of water and salt stress on yield and components

Effect of Water Deficit on Seedling, Plantlets and Compatible Solutes of Forage Sorghum cv. Speedfeed
Masoud Sinaki Jafar, Ghorban Nourmohammadi Abbas Maleki

Determination of the most sensitive developmental period of wheat (Triticum aestivum) to salt stress to optimize saline water utilization
B. Kamkar, M. Kafi and M. Nassiri Mahallati

Effect of Adaptive Metabolites on Water Relations of Doubled Haploid Wheat Lines at Different Water Levels
E. Nabizadeh, H. Heidari Sharifabad, E. Majidi Heravan and G. Nourmohammadi

Response of Chickpea to Short Periods of High Temperature and Water Stress at Different Developmental Stages
Y. Gan, J. Wang, S.V. Angadi and C.L. McDonald

Changes in photosynthetic gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, and stem diameter of soybean plants under drought stress condition.
Yoshiyuki Ohashi, Nobuhiro Nakayama, Hirofumi Saneoka and Kounosuke Fujita

Effects of Water Supply and Light Intensity on the Growth of Spring Wheat
Masahiko Tamaki, Tomio Itani and Katsu Imai

Genotypic variations of δ 13C in rice (Oryza. sativa L. and Oryza. glaberrima Steud.) in relation to transpiration efficiency and biomass production as affected by soil water conditions and N
Motohiko Kondo, Osamu Ideta, Edward Barlaan, Tokio Imbe, Sumio Itoh, Paquito P. Pablico, Darryl V. Aragones, Ruth Agbisit and D. Brar

Study of water stress effects in different growth stages on yield and yield components of different rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars
Hemmatollah Pirdashti, Zinolabedin Tahmasebi Sarvestani, Ghorbanali Nematzadeh and A. Ismail

Water and high temperature stress effects on maize production
Madhiyazhagan Ramadoss, Colin J. Birch, Peter S. Carberry and Michael Robertson

Response of mustard and canola genotypes to soil moisture stress during the post-flowering period
C.P. Gunasekera, L.D. Martin, R.J. French and K.H.M. Siddique

• Other physiology and water stress

Water consumption in different heat tolerant cultivars of snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Hide Omae, Ashok Kumar, Yoshinobu Egawa, Koichi Kashiwaba and Mariko Shono

Compensative effects of chemical regulation on physiological damage caused by water deficiency during filling stage of wheat
Liusheng Duan, Zhaohu Li, Caihong Guan, Zhixi Zhai and Zhongpei He

Will modifying plant ethylene status improve plant productivity in water-limited environments ?
Ian C. Dodd, Andrei A. Belimov, Wagdy Y. Sobeih, Vera I. Safronova, Donald Grierson and William J. Davies

Use of reflectance measurements to clearly identify water stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Simone Graeff, Zhongxue Fan and Wilhelm Claupein

Effects of Plant Growth Regulators on Water Deficit-Induced Yield Loss in Soybean
Mingcai Zhang, Liusheng Duan, Zhixi Zhai, Jianming Li, Xiaoli Tian, Baomin Wang, Zhongpei He and Zhaohu Li

Antioxidative Enzymes in Sunflower Subjected to Drought Stress
Dawoud Habibi, Masoud Mashdi Akbar Boojar, Ali Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza Ardakani and Daryoush Taleghani

Leaflet orientation and fibrous root trait combination effects on water use characteristics in soybeans (Glycine max) via reciprocal grafts
Richard D. Johnson, Fred L. Allen and Carl E. Sams

Development and characterization of RILs for molecular mapping of reproductive stage moisture stress tolerance in rice
S. Robin R. Manimaran, R. Pushpa, P. Jeyaprakash, S. Mahendran, H.R. Lafitte and G.N. Atlin

 

A comparative analysis of Crop Water Productivity of rice-wheat and cotton-wheat rotations in Rechna Doab, Punjab, Pakistan
Mobin-ud-Din Ahmad, Ilyas Masih and Hugh Turral

Effect of dairy effluent on DM yields and nutritive characteristics of perennial pasture in late spring and summer
Joe Jacobs, Graeme Ward and Frank McKenzie

Evaluation of the Water Use Efficiency of Dairy Production Using Crops and Pastures
Mark N. Callow and Sarah J. Kenma

Water use efficiency of irrigated forage systems in northern Victoria
Alister Lawson, Kerry Greenwood and Kevin Kelly

Improvement of water productivity in surface irrigation system by changing the plant spacing in sugar beet cultivation
Daryoush. F Taleghani, Ghasem Tohidlou, Javad Gohari, Davood Habibi, Yaghob Sadeghian and Mahmood Mesbah

Water use efficiency response of field-grown muskmelon and pepper to environmental water status
Anna Rita Rivelli, Rossella Albrizio, Stella Lovelli and Michele Perniola

Effect of irrigation strategies on dry matter yields and water use efficiency of a range of forage species
Joe Jacobs, Graeme Ward and Frank McKenzie

Effect of different rates of dairy effluent on millet dry matter yields and nutritive characteristics
Joe Jacobs, Graeme Ward and Frank McKenzie

Water use efficiency in sugar beet, subjected to different sowing times and irrigation regimes in a Mediterranean environment
Michele Rinaldi and Alessandro Vittorio Vonella

A simple versatile model of crop yield response to water deficit 
Richard J Martin, Derek R Wilson, Peter D Jamieson, Peter J Stone, Jeff B Reid and Richard N Gillespie

Response of canopy architecture, yield and water use efficiency of winter wheat to irrigation time
Pu Wang, Yaping Wei, Hui Ju and Danxi. Zhou

Application of remote sensing technologies to improve yield and water-use efficiency in irrigated peanuts
Graeme Wright, Andrew Robson and Greg Mills

Identifying the Potential to Apply Deficit Irrigation Strategies in Cotton Using Large Mobile Irrigation Machines
Simon C. White and Steven R. Raine

Soil Moisture-Based Nutrient Management of Red Pepper
Kang-Ho Jung, Wontae Kim, Seung-Oh Hur and Sangeon Ha

Effects of irrigation scheduling on soybean growth and yield.
Kurt Thelen, Mark Bernards and Michael Staton

Growth responses to alternative irrigation water for drought season in paddy rice 
Joung-Du Shin, Jong-Sik Lee, Won-II Kim, Goo-Bok Jung, GunYeob Kim, Jin-Ho Kim and Sun-Gang Yun

Influences of Chinese Cabbage Growth and Soil Salinity to Alternative Irrigation Waters
Joung-Du Shin, Sang-Won Park, Won-II Kim, Jong-Sik Lee, Goo-Bok Jung and Sun-Gang Yun

Management for ultra early cotton systems
Rose Roche, Michael Bange, Stephen P. Milroy, Grant Roberts and Greg Constable

IMPASSE: A DSS for Assessing Impact of Saline and Non-Saline Irrigation Waters on Crop Yield Reductions
Ravinder Kaur and Rashmi Malik

Study of water use efficiency, yield and quality of two sugar beet varieties in line source sprinkler irrigation
Ghasem Tohidloo, Saeed Ghalebi, Daryoush Taleghani, Seyed Yaghoob Sadeghian and Mohammad Ali Chegini

Effects of water supply and sowing date on water use efficiency of Anise (Pimpinella anisum L.)
Saeed Zehtab-Salmasi, Aziz Javanshir, Reza Omidbaigi, Houshang Alyari and Kazem Ghassemi-Golezani

Soybean Crop Production under Environmental Stress Conditions at Toshky / Egypt
Aly I.N. Abdel-Aal and Mohamed M. Moukhtar

Crop Production and Drainage in Conjunction with subsoiling Role in Deteriorated Egyptian Soil
Mohamed M. Moukhtar, El-Sayed El-Hadidy, and Mohamed A.B. El-Shewikh

Controlled Deficit Irrigation of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa): A Strategy for Addressing Water Scarcity in California
Steve Orloff, D.H. Putnam, Blaine Hanson and Harry Carlson

The effects of deficit irrigation on Water-use efficiency, yield, and quality of forage pearl millet
Shahryar Sasani, Mohammad Reza Jahansooz and Ali Ahmadi

Yield and Yield Components of Dryland Wheat Genotypes Under Supplemental Irrigation.
Z. Tahmasebi Sarvestani, S.A.M. Modarres Sanavy and A. Roohi

  

Environmental Consequences of Water Management in Farming Systems

Optimal transect spacing for EM38 mapping for dryland agriculture in the Murray Mallee, Australia
Garry J. O'Leary, Vincent Grinter and Ivan Mock

Deep drainage calculated from soil chloride under a long-term rainfed crop rotation experiment in the Murray Mallee, Australia
Garry J. O'Leary and Mark G. O'Connell

Lost and reclaimed: A case study of gully rehabilitation in central Kenya highlands using low-cost measures
Charles K.K. Gachene and Joseph G. Mureithi

Environmental Impact Assessment of Surface Run-off to Small Stream in a Steep Cornfield
Joung-Du Shin, Jong-Sik Lee, Won-II Kim, Sang-Won Park, Goo-Bok Jung, Yong-Sun Jhang and Dong-Sig Oh

Managing the interface of trees and crops – trade-offs in low rainfall zones
Yvette Oliver, Ted Lefroy, Richard Stirzaker and Christine Davies

Impact of Alternative Land Use Patterns on Plant Water Use, Surface Water Flow and Drainage on a Topographic Sequence
Enli Wang, Hamish Cresswell, Zahra Paydar and John Gallant

Study on soil and nutrients loss with soil textures and two crops during rainfall 
Seung-Oh Hur, Won-Tae Kim, Kang-Ho Jung and Sang-Keon Ha

Simulation of deep drainage under a 13-year crop sequence in southern NSW
Julianne Lilley, Merv Probert and John Kirkegaard