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{"title":"Digital technologies for water use and management in agriculture: Recent applications and future outlook","authors":"Carlos Parra-López ,&nbsp;Saker Ben Abdallah ,&nbsp;Guillermo Garcia-Garcia ,&nbsp;Abdo Hassoun ,&nbsp;Hana Trollman ,&nbsp;Sandeep Jagtap ,&nbsp;Sumit Gupta ,&nbsp;Abderrahmane Aït-Kaddour ,&nbsp;Sureerat Makmuang ,&nbsp;Carmen Carmona-Torres","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article provides a comprehensive overview of digital technologies for water use and management in agriculture, examining recent applications and future prospects. It examines key water-related challenges - scarcity, pollution, inefficient use and climate change - and shows how various digital technologies such as Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Big Data, Robotics, Smart Sensors and Blockchain can help address them. The review finds that these technologies offer significant potential for improving water management practices, with Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence emerging as the most versatile and widely adopted. Efficient irrigation strategies appear to be the most common application across technologies. Digital solutions significantly reduce water wastage, help identify pollution hotspots, and improve overall water resource management. For example, remote sensing-based approaches (e.g. UAV-mounted multispectral cameras) can accurately monitor soil moisture to optimise irrigation scheduling, while AI-driven models (e.g. random forest or neural networks) can predict groundwater recharge or forecast rainfall events. However, several barriers to widespread adoption are identified, including high implementation costs, lack of technical expertise, data management challenges, and infrastructure and connectivity constraints. The study concludes by suggesting priorities for future research and development, highlighting the need for integrated technological solutions, improved accessibility and affordability, improved efficiency and sustainability, improved water quality, enhanced data management capabilities, and strategies to address emerging concerns such as cybersecurity and the environmental impact of digital technologies themselves. This review aims to inform future research, policy and practice in agricultural water management and support the development of more productive, resilient and sustainable agricultural systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"309 ","pages":"Article 109347"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143125226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate change shifts risk of soil salinity and land degradation in water-scarce regions","authors":"Isaac Kramer ,&nbsp;Nadav Peleg ,&nbsp;Yair Mau","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change introduces significant uncertainty when assessing the risk of soil salinity in water-scarce regions. We combine a soil–water-salinity–sodicity model (SOTE) and a weather generator model (AWE-GEN) to develop a framework for studying salinity and sodicity dynamics under changing climate definitions. Using California’s San Joaquin Valley as a case study, we perform first-order sensitivity analyses for the effect of changing evapotranspiration (ET) rates, length of the rain season, and magnitude of extreme rainfall events. Higher aridity, through increased ET, shorter rainy seasons, or decreased magnitude of extreme rainfall events, drives higher salinity — with rising ET leading to the highest salinity levels. Increased ET leads to lower levels of soil hydraulic conductivity, while the opposite effect is observed when the rainfall season length is shortened and extreme rainfall events become less intense. Higher ET leads to greater unpredictability in the soil response, with the overall risk of high salinity and soil degradation increasing with ET. While the exact nature of future climate changes remains unknown, the results show a serious increase in salinity hazard for climate changes within the expected range of possibilities. The presented results are relevant for many other salt-affected regions, especially those characterized by intermittent wet–dry seasons. While the San Joaquin Valley is in a comparatively strong position to adapt to heightened salinity, other regions may struggle to maintain high food production levels under hotter and drier conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109223"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143175867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial characteristics and critical groundwater depth of soil salinization in arid artesian irrigation area of northwest China","authors":"Cui Chang ,&nbsp;Guiyu Yang ,&nbsp;Shuoyang Li ,&nbsp;Hao Wang ,&nbsp;Yaomingqi Song","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soil salinization readily occurs in artesian irrigation areas within arid regions due to prolonged irrigation, leading to diminished soil productivity and consequential impacts on regional food security and ecological stability. The present study focuses on the northern area of Qingtongxia artesian irrigation district in Ningxia, the spatial characteristics of soil salinity were investigated using the three-dimensional inverse distance weight interpolation, and the types of soil salt accumulation were determined. Furthermore, the high probability partition of each type was determined by the Indicator Kriging method. Additionally, the path analysis method was employed to determine the critical groundwater depth, which is a significant factor influencing the occurrence and development of soil salinization. The results indicate the salt accumulation types in the soil profile are divided into surface accumulation (SA) type, middle accumulation (MA) type, and bottom accumulation (BA) type. The depth to groundwater is a crucial influential factor, with critical depths prior to spring irrigation identified for each type: 2.1 m for the SA type and 1.8 m for both MA and BA types. To mitigate salinization deterioration, it is essential that the depth to groundwater in the distribution area of each type exceeds the corresponding critical depth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109196"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143175869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Saline water concentration determines the reduction pathway for oat phosphorus absorption","authors":"Tong Liu ,&nbsp;Lihua Xia ,&nbsp;Xinliang Dong ,&nbsp;Jintao Wang ,&nbsp;Xiaojing Liu ,&nbsp;Hongyong Sun ,&nbsp;Yunying Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109236","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Saline water irrigation offers a potential solution for sustaining crop yields under freshwater scarcity. However, it carries risks such as soil structure deterioration and soil organic matter decomposition, which could accelerate nutrient release. Elevated soil salinity further hampers crop growth and reduces nutrient uptake, particularly affecting phosphorus absorption. This study investigated the dynamics of soil pH, electrical conductivity, water content and available phosphorus throughout the entire growth period of oat treated with 1, 3, and 5 g L⁻¹ saline water. It also examined the post-harvest responses of soil aggregates and their associated phosphorus, as well as the above-ground biomass and phosphorus content in various oat organs. The results showed that 1) Compared to the 1 g L⁻¹, 3 and 5 g L⁻¹ treatments significantly increased soil electrical conductivity and water content throughout most of the growth period, with the 5 g L⁻¹ treatment also significantly increasing soil available phosphorus content; 2) The 3 and 5 g L⁻¹ treatments significantly reduced the soil macro-aggregate (&gt;1 mm) proportion by 24.76 % and 36.36 % (p &lt; 0.05), while increasing soil micro-aggregate (&lt;0.053 mm) by 39.41 % and 71.59 % (p &lt; 0.05), along with higher available phosphorus content in the &lt; 0.053 mm fraction; 3) The above-ground phosphorus content in oats decreased by 30.27 % and 35.39 % under the 3 and 5 g L⁻¹ treatments, respectively, compared to the 1 g L⁻¹ treatment. Partial least squares structural equation modeling revealed the different reduction pathways: 3 g L⁻¹ saline water inhibited crop phosphorus absorption by reducing phosphorus concentrations in stem and shell (Path coefficient [PC] = 0.796, p &lt; 0.001), whereas 5 g L⁻¹ reduced it by decreasing the stem and seed biomass (Path coefficient [PC] = 0.816, p &lt; 0.001). This study reveals the effects of saline water irrigation on soil and crop phosphorus availability, providing valuable insights for optimizing saline water use and enhancing phosphorus availability in agricultural systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109236"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142805366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lifecycle environmental benefits of integrated rational fertilization, biochar, and constructed wetland in mitigating nutrient loading","authors":"Yu-Ning Chen ,&nbsp;Chihhao Fan ,&nbsp;Michal Šereš ,&nbsp;Markéta Šerešová ,&nbsp;Jan Vymazal ,&nbsp;Shu-Yuan Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Agricultural activities due to fertilization contribute significantly to nutrient loadings and other environmental burdens, posing a severe threat to ecosystems. Although a portfolio of green agricultural practices is recommended, few studies address the environmental benefits from a life-cycle perspective. This study comprehensively evaluates the cradle-to-gate environmental benefits of integrating rational fertilization, biochar, and constructed wetlands (CWs) exemplified by plum cultivation. Four assessment scenarios were designed: (S1) conventional cultivation, (S2) rational fertilization with biochar amendment, (S3) conventional cultivation with a simulated CWs system, and (S4) rational fertilization with biochar amendment and a simulated CWs system. In the assessment, rational fertilization used half the fertilizer compared to conventional practices, biochar was applied at 0.1 ton/ha, and horizontal subsurface flow CWs were filled with washed gravel and planted with <em>Phragmites australis</em>. The findings show that rational fertilization combined with biochar (S2) or CWs (S3) alone show about half the eutrophication impacts of conventional cultivation (S1). Combining rational fertilization, biochar and CWs (S4) further reduces freshwater and marine eutrophication potentials by ∼73.5 % and ∼69.8 %, respectively. Similarly, these green agricultural practices (either S2 or S4) effectively reduce the overall endpoint impacts by about 47 %, with synergistic improvements, particularly in endpoint freshwater ecotoxicity and freshwater eutrophication, observed for S4 (a significant reduction of 76 %) compared to S1. Regarding the carbon footprint, the production of plums using conventional agriculture emits ∼300 kg CO₂-eq per ton-plum, whereas using green agricultural practices results in only ∼138 kg CO₂-eq per ton-plum, representing a reduction of 45.8 % in greenhouse gas emissions. This study highlights the potential of green agricultural practices to mitigate NPS nutrient loadings to aquifers and achieve sustainable agricultural management through reduced global warming and other environmental impacts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109202"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142805398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimizing planting management practices considering a suite of crop water footprint indicators —A case-study of the Fengjiashan Irrigation District","authors":"Yujie Yuan ,&nbsp;Jichao Wang ,&nbsp;Xuerui Gao ,&nbsp;Kejing Huang ,&nbsp;Xining Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109261","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109261","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Irrational allocation of water resources, and excessive fertilization are the main problems facing the sustainable development of agriculture in China. Reducing agricultural water consumption and the impact of agricultural non-point source pollution are key to sustainable and healthy development for regional agriculture. The water footprint theory provides an important methodological tool for agricultural production and water resource management. However, most of the previous studies involve simple scenario comparison or assess the influence of individual factors on the crop water footprint. An integrated methodological and technological framework for optimizing planting structures and management strategies in irrigation districts, which simultaneously considers blue, green, and grey water footprints, has yet to be developed. Based on this, taking Fengjiashan Irrigation District (FID) as an example, the APEX model was introduced to estimate yield and evapotranspiration under different crop types, irrigation systems, fertilization conditions, and planting structures to quantify crop water footprints. Subsequently, an optimization model of plant structure and management practices based on water footprint was developed, which was solved by multi-objective particle swarm optimization. Finally, the optimization scheme of crop planting management with low-water-consumption and low-pollution in FID was identified. The results showed that 110 % of the irrigation quota and 75 % of current fertilization were the most suitable irrigation and fertilization strategy in FID. In the path of planting structure, it was necessary to reduce the area of multiple planting and increase the area of monocropping. Under the optimal planting management practices, the total blue, green, and grey water footprint of the irrigated district changed by −12.3 %, 9.2 %, and −18.3 %. After optimization, the net income of crop planting in the irrigated area increased by 4.7 %.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109261"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determination of the optimal frequency and duration of micro-spray patterns for high-temperature environment tomatoes based on the Fuzzy Borda model","authors":"Run Xue ,&nbsp;Chuan Zhang ,&nbsp;Haofang Yan ,&nbsp;Kinde Negessa Disasa ,&nbsp;Imran Ali Lakhiar ,&nbsp;Muhammad Akhlaq ,&nbsp;Muhammad Usman Hameed ,&nbsp;Jun Li ,&nbsp;Jiangtao Ren ,&nbsp;Shuaishuai Deng ,&nbsp;Biyu Wang ,&nbsp;Rongxuan Bao","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109240","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109240","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>High summer temperatures have a significant impact on the yield reduction and quality of greenhouse crops. Micro-spray has been increasingly utilized in greenhouses to enhance crop productivity and quality. Nevertheless, micro-spray applications' optimal frequency and duration vary depending on the specific temperature conditions to enhance the fruit quality. Thus, this study implemented different micro-spray frequencies, F1 (once per hour) and F2 (twice per hour), and durations, D1 (1 minute), D2 (2 minutes from 11:00–13:00 and 1 minute during other times) and D3 (2 minutes) treatments to study the impact of micro-spray durations and frequencies on tomato chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, growth indicators, and fruit quality, and constructed the Fuzzy Borda combination evaluation (FB) model to obtain the optimal micro-spray treatments. The results showed that micro-spray effectively improved tomato growth indicators and fruit quality. The micro-spray restored part of the photosynthetic mechanism of tomato that was stopped due to high temperature and reduced the photoprotective mechanism, actively dissipating excess energy into heat. F2 had a better effect on improving plant height, LAI, and SPAD than F1. All micro-spray treatments increased yield but decreased WP_c in all of them. Meanwhile, the yield was significantly and positively correlated with LAI and SPAD. Thus, yield could be predicted from LAI and SPAD. In the FB model, F1D3 and F2D1 treatments had the highest scores and rankings of tomatoes, which can be applied to protect tomatoes against heat damage and maximize the economic benefits. Meanwhile, TOPSIS, RSR, or VIKOR can be used to quickly assess tomatoes' superiority or inferiority under different treatments because they had the highest correlation with the FB. In future studies, we need to further investigate the functional distribution of mist and the process of mist changes, which could help us better understand the mechanism of micro-spray.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109240"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimating stomatal conductance of citrus orchard based on UAV multi-modal information in Southwest China","authors":"Quanshan Liu ,&nbsp;Zongjun Wu ,&nbsp;Ningbo Cui ,&nbsp;Shunsheng Zheng ,&nbsp;Shouzheng Jiang ,&nbsp;Zhihui Wang ,&nbsp;Daozhi Gong ,&nbsp;Yaosheng Wang ,&nbsp;Lu Zhao ,&nbsp;Renjuan Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Stomatal conductance (Gs) reflects the extent of water stress experienced by crops, which plays a crucial role in precision irrigation and water resource management. High spatiotemporal resolution multimodal remote sensing data from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) offers great potential for accurately predicting crop stomatal conductance to monitor crop water stress. In this study, multispectral and thermal infrared remote sensing data of citrus canopies were acquired using UAV. Multimodal features, including RGB, spectral, and thermal information of the citrus canopy, were extracted. Simultaneously, Gs of citrus and soil moisture content (SMC) were collected. The Black-winged Kite Algorithm (BKA) was employed to optimize both the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) and Kernel Extreme Learning Machine (KELM) models. Gs estimation models for citrus were constructed by incorporating RGB, multispectral (MS), and thermal infrared (TIR) data, as well as their combinations, using the BKA-KELM, BKA-ELM, KELM, and ELM algorithms. The results showed that Gs had the highest correlation with the average soil moisture content (SMCa) at a depth of 0–40 cm (R² = 0.674, P &lt; 0.05). Additionally, Gs exhibited a strong correlation with 20 cm and 40 cm soil moisture content (SMC20 and SMC40), with R² of 0.638 and 0.606, respectively (P &lt; 0.05). The fusion of RGB, MS, and TIR multimodal information significantly improved the accuracy of Gs estimation. The Gs models constructed using RGB, MS and TIR as inputs demonstrated the best estimation performance, with R² ranging from 0.859 to 0.989, and RMSE from 1.623 mmol to 5.369 mmol H₂O m⁻²·s⁻². The BKA optimization algorithm effectively enhanced the predictive performance of the KELM and ELM models. The BKA-KELM7 model, using RGB+MS+TIR feature information as inputs, was identified as the optimal model for estimating citrus Gs, with R² ranging from 0.906 to 0.989, and RMSE from 1.623 mmol to 3.997 mmol H₂O m⁻²·s⁻². This study showed that combining multimodal information from low-cost UAV with the optimized machine learning algorithm can provide relatively accurate and robust estimates of citrus Gs. It offers an effective method for estimating Gs using only UAV data, providing valuable support for precision irrigation and field management decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109253"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142884210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humic acid improves water retention, maize growth, water use efficiency and economic benefits in coastal saline-alkali soils","authors":"Ge Li ,&nbsp;Yuyang Shan ,&nbsp;Weibo Nie ,&nbsp;Yan Sun ,&nbsp;Lijun Su ,&nbsp;Weiyi Mu ,&nbsp;Zhi Qu ,&nbsp;Ting Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109323","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109323","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Humic acid (HA) is an environmentally friendly and efficient soil amendment that plays a crucial role in the improving of saline-alkali soils. This study investigated the effects of HA on soil water retention, maize growth characteristics, water use efficiency (WUE), and economic benefits (∆NP) in coastal saline-alkali soil. Laboratory experiments tested five HA application rates (0, 1 ‰, 3 ‰, 5 ‰, and 7 ‰), examining their effects on soil infiltration, evaporation, and hydraulic parameters. Based on these findings, a three-year field experiment was conducted. During the maize growing seasons of 2019 and 2020, five HA application rates (H0: 0, H50: 50 kg ha⁻¹, H150: 150 kg ha⁻¹, H250: 250 kg ha⁻¹, H350: 350 kg ha⁻¹) were evaluated. In 2021, the improvement effects of HA were validated. The field experiment focused on the impacts of HA on soil water storage (SWS), desalination rate (RD), maize plant height (PH), leaf area index (LAI), aboveground dry matter (ADM), yield, WUE, and ∆NP. The results indicated that HA application increased cumulative infiltration by 0.83 %–9.92 %, extended the infiltration time required to reach the predetermined wetting front depth by 11.6 %–74.8 %, and reduced cumulative evaporation by 4.72 %–28.99 %. HA application rates showed a positive correlation with soil residual water content (<em>θ</em>_r) and saturated water content (<em>θ</em>_s), while exhibiting a negative correlation with saturated hydraulic conductivity (<em>K</em>_s). Appropriate HA application significantly enhanced SWS, RD, PH, LAI, ADM, yield, WUE, and ∆NP. Principal component analysis revealed that the H250 treatment in 2019 and the H50 treatment in 2020 achieved the highest comprehensive rankings. Furthermore, the function analysis of WUE and ∆NP identified the optimal HA application rates as 193.5 kg ha⁻¹ and 182.3 kg ha⁻¹, respectively. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the improving coastal saline-alkali soils effectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"309 ","pages":"Article 109323"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143125275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advancing date palm cultivation in the Arabian Peninsula and beyond: Addressing stress tolerance, genetic diversity, and sustainable practices","authors":"Soumya Koippully Manikandan ,&nbsp;Dharshini Jenifer. A ,&nbsp;Nisarga K. Gowda ,&nbsp;Vaishakh Nair ,&nbsp;Rami Al-Ruzouq ,&nbsp;Mohamed Barakat A. Gibril ,&nbsp;Fouad Lamghari ,&nbsp;John Klironomos ,&nbsp;Maryam Al Hmoudi ,&nbsp;Mohamed Sheteiwy ,&nbsp;Ali El-Keblawy","doi":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109242","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109242","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Date palm (<em>Phoenix dactylifera</em> L.) cultivation in the Arabian Peninsula is crucial for regional agriculture and global markets. The Arabian Peninsula is dominant in date production, contributing approximately 34 % of the global output. Recent advancements in agricultural technologies have improved fruit yield and quality, expanding date palm cultivation globally. However, sustainability challenges persist due to various abiotic stresses, such as salinity, temperature extremes, drought, soil factors, and biotic stresses, including diseases and pests. This review examines key environmental factors affecting date palm cultivation, with a focus on soil salinity, water scarcity, and climate change-related stresses. The genetic diversity among date palm varieties is emphasized, highlighting the need for breeding programs aimed at improving stress tolerance and yield. Biotechnological advancements, such as genetic transformation and genome editing, are discussed for their potential to enhance crop resilience and productivity. Additionally, remote sensing techniques are explored for their application in precision agriculture, particularly in the mapping and monitoring of date palm health and soil conditions. The significant role of artificial intelligence in accurately mapping date palm trees using multi-platform remotely sensed data is also reviewed, illustrating its potential to enhance geospatial databases and support sustainable management practices. The review concludes with recommendations for optimizing cultivar selection and management strategies tailored to local conditions, emphasizing the need for ongoing research to advance date palm cultivation on a global scale.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":7634,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Water Management","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 109242"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142841144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}