’ perception of quality. An example is the study of Lopez et al. (2010) on deficit-irrigated ‘O'Henry’ peach. DI significantly increased SSC and TA with no effect on the SSC/TA ratio. Based on this ratio, no conclusion could be reached on how organoleptic
reasonably well under limited water supply conditions ( FAO, 2002 ). Deficit irrigation (DI) is a strategy of applying less water than ET demands with the objective of improving WUE by eliminating the irrigation with a nonsignificant impact on yield ( Kirda
Proper irrigation management is critical to growing quality turfgrass with limited water in arid and semiarid regions. Deficit irrigation, defined as applying water in amounts less than the reference evapotranspiration rate, is an irrigation
Regulated deficit irrigation is used to manage soil water content to impose predetermined periods of plant water stress or soil water deficit that may elicit a desirable response in the plants (see reviews by Behboudian and Singh, 2001 ; Chaves et
; Proebsting et al., 1981 ). Regulated deficit irrigation has more recently been proposed to minimize water use, control vegetative growth, and maintain or even enhance apple fruit quality ( Mills et al., 1996 ; Mpelasoka et al., 2001 ; Fallahi et al., 2011
reduce water applications while minimizing detrimental effects on fruit production. Deficit irrigation strategies, using less than optimum water applications ( Behboudian and Mills, 1997 ; Leib et al., 2006 ) to maintain or even improve fruit quality
water applied in conventional irrigated (CI) and deficit irrigated (DI) treatments for ‘Tardibelle’ peach trees in 2009 and 2010. Fig. 1. Seasonal patterns of midday stem water potential for ‘Tardibelle’ peach trees in 2009 (upper panel) and in 2010
Water deficit has become more of a problem for production of turf and forage grasses due to regional and localized drought stress and increasing demands for fresh water uses in other areas. Reduction in irrigation frequency or total amount of daily
Water movement in regulated deficit irrigated wine grape vineyards in the inland Pacific Northwest has been shown to be restricted to a fairly small zone and often soil moisture status is very low ( Davenport et al., 2008 ). Because plant nutrient
the options available to horticultural growers to reduce water consumption and improve WUE. Possible strategies include deficit irrigation (DI), regulated deficit irrigation, and partial root-zone drying. DI involves the application of water at a rate