Improving Water and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems

Zed Rengel is Winthrop Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Western Australia.

• Contributors viiPreface xi1 Current State and Future Potential of Global Food Production and Consumption 3Christine Heumesser, Simon Thaler, Martin Schönhart, and Erwin Schmid2 Water Resources and Global Change 21Martin Wegehenkel3 Translating Water into Food: How Water Cycles in Natural and Agricultural Landscapes 33Andrzej Kędziora and Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz4 Nutrients as Limited Resources: Global Trends in Fertilizer Production and Use 57Patrick Heffer and Michel Prud’homme5 The Flow of Phosphorus in Food Production and Consumption Systems 79Tina-Simone S. Neset, Dana Cordell, and Lotta Andersson6 Matching Soil Nutrient Supply and Crop Demand during the Growing Season 93Terry Rose and Bill Bowden7 Physiology of Nitrogen-Use Efficiency 105Al Imran Malik and Zed Rengel8 Improving Crop Nitrogen Use in Dryland Farming: Interactions and Potential Trade-offs between Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency 123Trevor P. Garnett and Greg J. Rebetzke9 Breeding Approaches to Increasing Water-Use Efficiency 145Lianne Merchuk and Yehoshua Saranga10 Breeding Approaches to Increasing Nutrient-Use Efficiency: Examples from Common Beans 161Matthew W. Blair11 Using Simulation Modeling of Root Growth and Function as an Aid in Breeding for Increased Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency 177Art J. Diggle and Vanessa M. Dunbabin12 Improving Crop Production in the Arid Mediterranean Climate 187Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Christian Richardt Jensen, and Fulai Liu13 Agronomic Principles of Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency: Case Studies in Dryland Grain Production in Australia 211John A. Kirkegaard and Michael J. Robertson14 Use of Organic Fertilizers Alone or in Combination with Inorganic Ones: Effects on Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Indian Farming Systems 235Cherkumalli Srinivasarao, Bandi Venkateswarlu, Dattatreya Mahabaleswara Hegde, K. Venkateswara Rao, and Sumanta Kundu15 Current Status and Future Perspectives to Increase Nutrientand Water-Use Efficiency in Food Production Systems in China 263Mingsheng Fan, Xiying Zhang, Lixing Yuan, Weifeng Zhang, and Fusuo Zhang16 Water- and Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Food Production in South America 275Nand K. Fageria and Luís F. StoneIndex 297