Claim · model-written summary
Minor stress changes root architecture to improve water gain and limit loss.
- Taxon
- plantsViridiplantaee1
- Outcome
- root architecturee0
- Qualifier
- optimize water gain and reduce losse0
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Verbatim
e0“manipulates root architecture to optimize water gain and reduce loss”
e1“Deficit irrigation practices can be used to manipulate the physiology of water use in plants and increase crop tolerance to drought stress.”
Title
Managing Drought Stress in California Agricultural Systems
Gregory D. Brittain Lincoln (University of Nebraska) 2016
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Monitoring crop water needs can significantly reduce irrigation water use.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation can increase crop drought tolerance.
- Mechanism Minor stress decreases stomatal aperture.
- Observation Minor stress increases root-to-shoot ratio.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation yields are lower than with conventional irrigation but generally only slightly.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation increases yield per unit of applied water.
- Observation Deficit irrigation improves yield quality.
- Observation Deficit irrigation reduces shoot vigor.
- Association Drought stress has positive and negative effects on pathogen and pest dynamics.
- Recommendation The authors recommend irrigation monitoring as a first management step.