Exploring half root-stress approach: current knowledge and future prospects

Figures & data

Figure 1. Schematic diagram of plant processes under half‐root drought system.

Table 1. Summary of experiments used in the comparison of crops under different irrigation regions.

No	Plants	Variety	Region	Experiment nature	Treatments	Water reduction	Reference
1	Grapevine	Sultana	Australia	Pot experiment	Partial root-zone irrigation	–	(Stoll, Loveys & Dry, 2000)
		Tempranillo	Valencia, Spain	Vineyard, field experiment	Irrigation amount and partial root-zone drying (PRD)	–	(Intrigliolo & Castel, 2009)
		Rizamat	Northwest China	Vineyard, field experiment	Partial root-zone drip irrigation	–	(Zhou et al., 2008)
		Shiraz and Tempranillo	Australia and Spain	Field experiment	Deficit irrigation and partial root-zone drying	–	(Fuentes et al., 2014)
		Monastrell	Jumilla, Murci, Spain	Field experiment	Partial root-zone irrigation and regulated deficit irrigation		(Romero et al., 2015)
		Lambrusco	Piacenza, Italy	Pot experiment	Well-watered and half-stressed split-root	–	(Poni et al., 2009)
2	Potato	Liseta	Serbia	Field experiment	Partial root-zone drying	33–42%	(Jovanovic et al., 2010)
		Agria and Ramos	Iran	Field experiment	Deficit and partial root-zone drying irrigation		(Ahmadi, Agharezaee, Kamgar-Haghighi & Sepaskhah, 2014)
		UNICA	Peru	Field experiment	Partial root-zone drying irrigation, Full Irrigation and a deficit irrigation	–	(Yactayo et al., 2013)
		Folva	Taastrup, Denmark	Glasshouse pot experiment	Full irrigation (FI), deficit irrigation (DI) and partial root-zone drying (PRD)	37%	(Liu et al., 2006a)
		Folva	Denmark	Field experiment	Full irrigation (FI), deficit irrigation (DI) and partial root-zone drying (PRD)	30%	(Shahnazari et al., 2008)
		Folva	Denmark	Pot experiment	Partial root-zone drying	30%	(Liu et al., 2006b)
3	Tomato	Petopride	Palmerston North, New Zealand	Wooden boxes experiment	Partial root zone drying	50%	(Zegbe, Behboudian & Clothier, 2004)
		Sunpak	Germany	Compost filled seed trays experiment	Regulated deficit irrigation and partial root-zone drying	–	(Savić et al., 2008)
		Toro F1	Mexico	Greenhouse trays experiment	Partial root-zone drying	46%	(Campos, Trejo, Pena-Valdivia, Ramírez-Ayala & Sánchez-García, 2009)
		F1 Fantastic	Adana, Turkey	Plastic greenhouses experiment	Full irrigation (FI), deficit irrigation (DI) and partial root-zone drying (PRD)	–	(Kirda et al., 2004)
		Cedrico	Denmark	Pot experiment	Partial root-zone irrigation and deficit irrigation	–	(Wang et al., 2012)
4	Hot pepper		Shaanxi, China	Pot experiment	Controlled alternate drip irrigation on partial roots	40%	(Kang, Zhang, Hu, Li & Jerie, 2001)
		-	Palmerston North, New Zealand	Glasshouse experiment	Deficit irrigation and partial root-zone drying	50%	(Dorji, Behboudian & Zegbe-Dominguez, 2005)
5	Common bean	Bronco	Morocco	Pot experiments	Partial root drying (PRD) and regulated deficit irrigation (RDI)	–	(Wakrim, Wahbi, Tahi, Aganchich & Serraj, 2005)
6	Green Bean	Strike	Kahraman Maras, Turkey	Feld experiment	Subsurface drip irrigation and partial root zone-drying irrigation	16%	(Gençoğlan, Altunbey & Gençoğlan, 2006)
7	Citrus	Bellamy	Australia	Field experiment	Partial root-zone drying	–	(Hutton & Loveys, 2011)
8	Mango	Chok Anan	Thailand	Field experiment	Deficit irrigation and partial root-zone drying	–	(Spreer et al., 2007)
9	Maize	Shaandan No. 9	Shaanxi, China	Pot experiment	Split-root system	34.4–36.8%	(Kang, Liang, Hu & Zhang, 1998)
		Shaandan No. 9	Shaanxi, China	Pot experiment	Alternate partial root-zone irrigation	34.4–36.8%	(Li et al., 2010)
		Shanndan No. 9	Northwest, China	Greenhouse experiment	Partial root-zone irrigation	30%	(Hu, Kang, Li & Zhang, 2009)
10	Cotton	Xinluzao No. 7	Northwest, China	Field experiment	Partial root-zone irrigation (PRI)	–	(Du, Kang, Zhang, Li & Hu, 2006)
		Xin K4	China	Field experiment	Partial root-zone irrigation	30%	(Tang, Li & Zhang, 2005)
11	Soybean	Williams	Tehran, Iran	Field experiment	Partial root drying	50%	(Sarai Tabrizi, Parsinejad & Babazadeh, 2012)

: not measured

Figure 2. Schematic diagram of mechanisms to understand the local and systemic regulation of plant under half-root stress.

Figure 3. (I) Schematic representation of maize soybean inter cropping, water, and fertilizer imbalance site. (II) Soil water contents of different spatial position in maize-soybean relay intercropping system. A stands for narrow maize rows, B stands for between maize and soybean, C represents the soybean lines while D shows the soybean sole crop. (III) Split-root approach as a tool to study the local or systemic nature of soybean processes of signal.

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