Content: The course introduces students to soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, basic aspect of plant-water relations, water relations to plant cell and tissues, structure, function and hydraulic properties of roots, water potential and flux in the soil, plant system, root water uptake, soil water movement and transpiration, modelling water uptake by roots, plant water use efficiency, net radiation to plant canopies, estimation of total evaporation and estimation of leaf temperature.

Objective:To introduce students to the interrelationships between crops, water use and the environment.

Reading materials
1.    Brewer, R. 1988. The Science of Ecology. Sanders, New York.
2.    Enger, E.D. and Smith, B.F. 1991. Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships. 4th Edn. W.C. Brown Publishers
3.    Hillel, D. 1980. Applications of Soil Physics. Academic Press Inc. New York.

4.  Napier, T.L. et al., 1983. Water Resources Research: Problems and Potentials for Agriculture and Rural Communities