Physiological and Agronomic Responses of Plants Irrigated with Saline Reclaimed Water
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 3577
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant–soil water relations; deficit irrigation; water status indicators for precision irrigation; reclaimed water management in orchards and in irrigation communities; nutritional needs of crops; models in crop physiology; transpiration and photosynthesis under different abiotic stresses; soil water balance; multispectral and thermal data
Interests: sustainable water management; deficit irrigation; reclaimed water; desalinated water; water relations; salinity and water stresses; plant physiology; agronomic parameters; isotopic discrimination; spectral and thermal data; citrus; olive; almond
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is influencing the availability of water resources worldwide, reducing renewable surface water and groundwater resources at an alarming rate in most arid and semiarid regions. It is estimated that by 2025, around 2 billion people will be affected by water scarcity with a potential impact on agricultural production. Reused reclaimed water (RW) is considered a non-expensive and reliable non-conventional water source. This water usually contains essential nutrients, beneficial for crop growth and economy of the growers, but also salts and toxic ions which discharge into the environment and can accumulate in soil and crops over time, with negative consequences for soils, plants, and underground water bodies. RW irrigation can cause the accumulation of salts (mainly ions) in the crop root zone to concentrations that result in a damage to soil, plant physiology and yield. In this sense, the impacts of RW must be studied mainly at the levels of plant agrophysiology and ecosystem.
This Special Issue of Plants is poised to address these questions. The issue focuses mainly on the physiological and agronomic responses of plants irrigated with saline reclaimed water and their impact on fruit and soil quality.
Dr. Emilio Nicolás
Dr. Cristina Romero-Trigueros
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil quality
- plant water status
- plant physiology
- saline treated wastewater
- yield
- fruit quality
- nutrients
- molecular markers
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