A crop water stress index and time threshold for automatic irrigation scheduling of grain sorghum

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 107, Issue , 2012, Pages 122-132

  O'Shaughnessy, Susan A ^a   Evett, Steven R ^a   Colaizzi, Paul D ^a   Howell, Terry A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic irrigation scheduling; CWSI Time Threshold; Grain sorghum; Plant feedback system

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION; BIOMASS YIELD; CONTROL METHODS; CROP RESPONSE; CROP WATER STRESS INDICES; DEFICIT IRRIGATION; GRAIN SORGHUM; GRAIN YIELD; GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION METHODS; IRRIGATION RATES; IRRIGATION SCHEDULING; IRRIGATION TREATMENTS; PLANT FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PLANT WATER STRESS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SHORT PERIODS; SOIL WATER; SOLAR NOON; SORGHUM BICOLOR (L.) MOENCH; STRESS INDICES; TIME THRESHOLDS; WELL-WATERED CROP;

ARID REGIONS; AUTOMATION; CONTROL; CROPS; SCHEDULING; SOIL MOISTURE;

IRRIGATION;

BIOMASS; CROP YIELD; GROWING SEASON; IRRIGATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; SORGHUM; WATER STRESS;

SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM BICOLOR BICOLOR;

EID: 84857993280     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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