Improving agricultural water productivity to ensure food security in China under changing environment: From research to practice

S Kang, X Hao, T Du, L Tong, X Su, H Lu, X Li… - Agricultural Water …, 2017 - Elsevier
Irrigation is an important measure for increasing grain production. Improving water use
efficiency in agriculture is expected to play a very important role in ensuring food and water …

Partitioning evapotranspiration into soil evaporation and transpiration using a modified dual crop coefficient model in irrigated maize field with ground-mulching

R Ding, S Kang, Y Zhang, X Hao, L Tong… - Agricultural water …, 2013 - Elsevier
The accurate partitioning of crop evapotranspiration (ET c ) into two components, soil
evaporation (E s ) and transpiration (T r ), is needed to better understand terrestrial hydrological …

Plastic mulch decreases available energy and evapotranspiration and improves yield and water use efficiency in an irrigated maize cropland

Y Fan, R Ding, S Kang, X Hao, T Du, L Tong… - Agricultural water …, 2017 - Elsevier
Plastic film mulch has been widely adopted in recent decades in the arid region of northwest
China, and the practice changes the energy budget of the soil surface, crop water use and …

An Improved Analytic Hierarchy Process Method for the evaluation of agricultural water management in irrigation districts of north China

H Sun, S Wang, X Hao - Agricultural Water Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Agricultural water management is the core part of agricultural efficient water use in irrigation
districts, which provides basic guarantee and decision-support for improving the efficiency of …

Contamination of phthalate esters in vegetable agriculture and human cumulative risk assessment

C Ning, WJ Shuai, HAO Xinmei, HC Zhang, Z Dongmei… - Pedosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Phthalate esters (PAEs), which can disturb human endocrine system, have been widely
detected in vegetable greenhouse agriculture in China. To investigate the effects of …

Comparison of several surface resistance models for estimating crop evapotranspiration over the entire growing season in arid regions

S Li, L Zhang, S Kang, L Tong, T Du, X Hao… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2015 - Elsevier
How to improve the reliability and accuracy of the single-layer Penman–Monteith (PM) model
for estimating crop evapotranspiration (ET) over the entire growing season in arid regions, …

An integrated strategy for improving water use efficiency by understanding physiological mechanisms of crops responding to water deficit: Present and prospect

J Kang, X Hao, H Zhou, R Ding - Agricultural Water Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Water use efficiency (WUE), defined as the ratio of plant carbon gain to water use in various
spatio-temporal scales, is a complex indicator of physiological, agronomic, and engineering …

Response of yield and quality of greenhouse tomatoes to water and salt stresses and biochar addition in Northwest China

Z Wu, Y Fan, Y Qiu, X Hao, S Li, S Kang - Agricultural Water Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving productivity of saline soils under drought condition is critical for sustainable
agricultural development in arid areas. Whether biochar addition can interact with drought and …

Agronomic management system and precipitation effects on soybean oil and fatty acid profiles

J Gao, X Hao, KD Thelen, GP Robertson - Crop Science, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated long‐term agronomic management systems and precipitation level
effects on soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] total oil content and fatty acid composition. …

Response of dry matter and water use efficiency of alfalfa to water and salinity stress in arid and semiarid regions of Northwest China

Y Qiu, Y Fan, Y Chen, X Hao, S Li, S Kang - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
As the planting acreage has been expanding on salinized soils of arid and semiarid regions
of Northwest China, it is important to understand how alfalfa dry matter (DM) and water use …