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Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions

Weeds usually penalize crop yields by competing for resources, such as water, light, nutrients, and space. Most of the studies on the crop-weed competition domain are limited to assessing crop-yield losses due to weed pressure and other crop-weed interactions, overlooking the significant uptake of s...

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Autores principales: Singh, Mandeep, Kukal, Meetpal Singh, Irmak, Suat, Jhala, Amit J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8777227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35069649
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.794090
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author Singh, Mandeep
Kukal, Meetpal Singh
Irmak, Suat
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description Weeds usually penalize crop yields by competing for resources, such as water, light, nutrients, and space. Most of the studies on the crop-weed competition domain are limited to assessing crop-yield losses due to weed pressure and other crop-weed interactions, overlooking the significant uptake of soil-water by weeds that exacerbates global water constraints and threatens the productivity and profitability. The objective of this review was to synthesize globally available quantitative data on weed water use (WU) sourced from 23 peer-reviewed publications (filtered from 233 publications via a multi-step protocol of inclusion criteria) with experimental investigations across space (3 continents), time (1927–2018), weed species (27 broadleaf and 7 grasses) and characteristics, cropping systems (5), soil types (ranging from coarse-textured sand to fine-textured clay soils), determination techniques, experimental factors (environment, management, resource availability, and competition), and aridity regimes (ranging from semi-arid to humid climate). Distributions of weed WU data reported via eight different metrics were assessed for variability and mean WU. A lack of the best experimental and reporting practices in weed WU research was identified that undermined the robustness, transferability, and application of the WU data. Mandatory protocols and the best practices typically followed in the agricultural water management research were described and recommended for weed scientists to avoid pitfalls in quantifying and presenting weed WU. A model of mixed plant community evapotranspiration (ET) was adapted to model weed-crop-soil system evaporation and transpiration in a crop canopy infested with multiple (n) weed species. Finally, potential cross-disciplinary questions across the domains of crop science, weed science, agricultural water management, irrigation science and engineering, and environmental changes were proposed to direct and prioritize future research efforts in the crop-weed-water arena.
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spelling pubmed-87772272022-01-22 Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions Singh, Mandeep Kukal, Meetpal Singh Irmak, Suat Jhala, Amit J. Front Plant Sci Plant Science Weeds usually penalize crop yields by competing for resources, such as water, light, nutrients, and space. Most of the studies on the crop-weed competition domain are limited to assessing crop-yield losses due to weed pressure and other crop-weed interactions, overlooking the significant uptake of soil-water by weeds that exacerbates global water constraints and threatens the productivity and profitability. The objective of this review was to synthesize globally available quantitative data on weed water use (WU) sourced from 23 peer-reviewed publications (filtered from 233 publications via a multi-step protocol of inclusion criteria) with experimental investigations across space (3 continents), time (1927–2018), weed species (27 broadleaf and 7 grasses) and characteristics, cropping systems (5), soil types (ranging from coarse-textured sand to fine-textured clay soils), determination techniques, experimental factors (environment, management, resource availability, and competition), and aridity regimes (ranging from semi-arid to humid climate). Distributions of weed WU data reported via eight different metrics were assessed for variability and mean WU. A lack of the best experimental and reporting practices in weed WU research was identified that undermined the robustness, transferability, and application of the WU data. Mandatory protocols and the best practices typically followed in the agricultural water management research were described and recommended for weed scientists to avoid pitfalls in quantifying and presenting weed WU. A model of mixed plant community evapotranspiration (ET) was adapted to model weed-crop-soil system evaporation and transpiration in a crop canopy infested with multiple (n) weed species. Finally, potential cross-disciplinary questions across the domains of crop science, weed science, agricultural water management, irrigation science and engineering, and environmental changes were proposed to direct and prioritize future research efforts in the crop-weed-water arena. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8777227/ /pubmed/35069649 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.794090 Text en Copyright © 2022 Singh, Kukal, Irmak and Jhala. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Singh, Mandeep
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Irmak, Suat
Jhala, Amit J.
Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions
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title_full Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions
title_fullStr Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions
title_full_unstemmed Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions
title_short Water Use Characteristics of Weeds: A Global Review, Best Practices, and Future Directions
title_sort water use characteristics of weeds: a global review, best practices, and future directions
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8777227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35069649
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.794090
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