Effective use of water (EUW) and not water-use efficiency (WUE) is the target of crop yield improvement under drought stress

By A. Blum. 2009

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

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Norton
2. Karim Barkaoui
3. Z. Tadele
4. Steve Beebe
5. I. Rao
6. C. Cajiao
7. J. Polanía
8. M. Rivera

In Plant Science

1. I. Rao
2. Steve Beebe
3. J. Polanía
4. C. Cajiao
5. M. Rivera
6. Lixin Wang
7. S. Daryanto
8. P. Jacinthe

In Soil Science

1. Z. Tadele
2. Steve Beebe
3. I. Rao
4. M. Rivera
5. J. Polanía
6. C. Cajiao
7. B. Raatz
8. Matthew P Reynolds

Citations in the corpus

• Global synthesis of drought effects on cereal, legume, tuber and root crops production: A review (2017, background): “Since biomass production was positively correlated to transpiration, breeding that allowed maximum soil water capture for transpiration (i.e., deep and dense root system) could be important for yield improvement under drought (Blum, 2009).”
• Partitioning of assimilates to deeper roots is associated with cooler canopies and increased yield under drought in wheat (2010, background): “Nonetheless, whatever the mechanism for increasing WU, it is considered the principal driver to yield in most water limited environments ( Blum 2009 ).”
• Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, background): “The enhancement of biomass production under moisture limiting conditions can be achieved primarily by dehydration avoidance through maximising soil water capture while diverting the largest part of the available soil moisture towards stomatal transpiration (Blum 2009).”
• Can Technology Deliver on the Yield Challenge to 2050 (2009, background): “4 Water-limited potential yield (PYW) Equation (3) underlies understanding of PYw progress, despite it limitations (Blum 2009).”
• Impact of Combined Abiotic and Biotic Stresses on Plant Growth and Avenues for Crop Improvement by Exploiting Physio-morphological Traits (2017, background): “Plants which maintain low Tc under drought stress conditions possess high plant water status and thus are better adapted for drought stress (Blum, 2009).”
• Grapevine under deficit irrigation: hints from physiological and molecular data. (2010, background): “…bases of plant responses to mild to moderate water deficits is therefore of utmost importance to modulate the appropriate balance between vegetative and reproductive development, to improve crop water use (Blum, 2009) and to control fruit quality under deficit irrigation (Chaves et al., 2007).”
• Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies of Agriculture in Mediterranean-Climate Regions (MCRs) (2019, methodology): “A better use of the water available from rainfall and irrigation should be a priority in MCRs, in order to increase water productivity (WP), defined as the yield per unit of water used in evapotranspiration [23,45].”