Deficit irrigation in fruit trees and vines in Spain.

By M. Ruiz-Sánchez, R. Domingo, Juan R. Castel. 2010

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Water has become the most precious of natural resources in many areas of Spain and, since agriculture is the major consumer of water, improvements in water use efficiency are increasingly sought. Regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) is an irrigation strategy based on applying only a fraction of the plant water requirements during certain periods of plant development. The paper reviews the available information on RDI strategies, in woody tree crops and vines based on studies by Spanish research groups. Both the promising results obtained and the drawbacks are covered. Additional key words: fruit quality; vegetative and fruit growth; water deficit; water relations; yield.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Soil Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Juan R. Castel
2. Diego S. Intrigliolo
3. Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Bello
4. C. Ballester

In Plant Science

1. Diego S. Intrigliolo
2. Juan R. Castel

In Soil Science

1. Juan R. Castel
2. Diego S. Intrigliolo

Citations in the corpus

• Thermographic measurement of canopy temperature is a useful tool for predicting water deficit effects on fruit weight in citrus trees (2013, background): “Regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) is an irrigation technique that has been successfully applied in many citrus species (Ruiz-Sánchez et al. 2010).”