Soil water extraction, water use, and grain yield by drought-tolerant maize on the Texas High Plains

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 155, Issue , 2015, Pages 11-21

  Hao, Baozhen ^a   Xue, Qingwu ^a   Marek, Thomas H ^a   Jessup, Kirk E ^a   Hou, Xiaobo ^a   Xu, Wenwei ^a   Bynum, Edsel D ^a   Bean, Brent W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nextsteppe Seeds Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Deficit irrigation; Evapotranspiration; Extraction depth; Water regime; Yield components

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); SOIL MOISTURE; WATER SUPPLY;

DEFICIT IRRIGATION; LIMITED INFORMATION; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SOIL WATER EXTRACTIONS; WATER REGIME; WATER-USE EFFICIENCY; YIELD COMPONENTS;

EXTRACTION;

BIOMASS; CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; MAIZE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL WATER; WATER DEPTH; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84925867777     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: 18732283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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