Functional response of garlic to optimized regulated deficit irrigation (ORDI) across crop stages and years: Is physiological performance impaired at the most sensitive stages to water deficit?

Garlic is widely cultivated around the globe. Particularly in semi-arid regions, where limited water reservoirs are getting more valuable due to climate change and increasing demand. In this context, implementation of irrigation management techniques such as the optimized regulated deficit irrigation (ORDI) are beginning to be explored. ORDI distributes the total available water, based on the needs at each growing stage (in the case of garlic:...