The intersection of nitrogen nutrition and water use in plants: new paths toward improved crop productivity

DC Plett, K Ranathunge, VJ Melino… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Water and nitrogen availability limit crop productivity globally more than most other
environmental factors. Plant availability of macronutrients such as nitrate is, to a large extent …

Interactions between water and nitrogen in Australian crop** systems: physiological, agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives

VO Sadras, PT Hayman, D Rodriguez… - Crop and Pasture …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
This paper reviews the interactions between water and nitrogen from physiological,
agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives. Our primary focus is wheat; we …

Nitrogen and water-use efficiency of Australian wheat varieties released between 1958 and 2007

VO Sadras, C Lawson - European Journal of Agronomy, 2013 - Elsevier
We used a collection of Australian wheats released between 1958 and 2007 to probe for
time trends in evapotranspiration and nitrogen uptake, and the efficiencies in the use of …

The dual crop coefficient approach to estimate and partitioning evapotranspiration of the winter wheat–summer maize crop sequence in North China Plain

B Zhang, Y Liu, D Xu, N Zhao, B Lei, RD Rosa… - Irrigation Science, 2013 - Springer
An accurate estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ET c) is very useful for appropriate water
management; hence, an accurate and user-friendly model is needed to support related …

The impact of water and nitrogen limitation on maize biomass and resource-use efficiencies for radiation, water and nitrogen

EI Teixeira, M George, T Herreman, H Brown… - Field Crops …, 2014 - Elsevier
The impact of limited water and nitrogen (N) supply on maize productivity and on the
utilisation efficiency of key production resources (radiation, water and N) was quantified in …

Improvement of crop yield in dry environments: benchmarks, levels of organisation and the role of nitrogen

VO Sadras, RA Richards - Journal of experimental botany, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Crop yield in dry environments can be improved with complementary approaches including
selecting for yield in the target environments, selecting for yield potential, and using indirect …

Quantifying crop nitrogen status for comparisons of agronomic practices and genotypes

VO Sadras, G Lemaire - Field Crops Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The nitrogen economy of the crop is a critical driver of biomass and grain production, and its
importance is reflected in a large, worldwide research effort to link nitrogen, growth and …

Implementing the dual crop coefficient approach in interactive software: 2. Model testing

RD Rosa, P Paredes, GC Rodrigues… - Agricultural Water …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper is the second of a two-part series, with the first part describing the SIMDualKc
model, an irrigation scheduling simulation tool that employs the dual crop coefficient …

Water use efficiency in perennial forage species: Interactions between nitrogen nutrition and water deficit

TR Kunrath, G Lemaire, VO Sadras, F Gastal - Field Crops Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Interactions between nitrogen and water may vary between N 2 fixing species and species
that rely only mineral soil nitrogen. Here we compared above ground biomass accumulation …

The potential of controlled traffic farming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and enhance carbon sequestration in arable land: a critical review

DL Antille, WCT Chamen, JN Tullberg… - Transactions of the …, 2015 - elibrary.asabe.org
The drive toward adoption of conservation agriculture to reduce costs and increase
production sustainably causes concern due to the potentially negative effects of increased …