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Analyze frameworks and metrics for assessing and improving water use efficiency across hierarchical biological and spatial scales, spanning from genes and plant organs to whole agricultural landscapes.

February 13, 2023Journal of Experimental BotanyOpen Access

Water use efficiency across scales: from genes to landscapes

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VVVincent VadezUniversité de Montpellier RPRaphaël PilloniCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement AGAlexandre GrondinCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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Cross-disciplinary review demonstrates multiscale equations and trade-offs for water use efficiency in agricultural systems, highlighting key levers to optimize farm-to-landscape water management.

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Analyze frameworks and metrics for assessing and improving water use efficiency across hierarchical biological and spatial scales, spanning from genes and plant organs to whole agricultural landscapes.
Synthesized cross-disciplinary research spanning plant physiology, agronomic practices, farm systems, and landscape ecology.
Formulated unified mathematical equations and metrics to bridge water use efficiency indicators across disparate organizational scales.
Assessed predictive models operating from cellular and crop plot levels up to broad agricultural landscapes.
Demonstrated that improvements in water use efficiency at the single-plant level do not directly translate to landscape-scale water savings due to complex socio-ecological trade-offs.
Identified critical management levers governing multiscale efficiency, including crop species selection, agronomic interventions, infrastructure development, and landscape configuration.

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Vadez et al. (2023) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9e33f70802d747abf6d50a https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad052

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Cross-disciplinary review demonstrates multiscale equations and trade-offs for water use efficiency in agricultural systems, highlighting key levers to optimize farm-to-landscape water management.

Water use efficiency across scales: from genes to landscapes

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Water use efficiency across scales: from genes to landscapes

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