Francisco Órgaz Rosúa

Crop ecophysiology

My work in recent years has focused on improving irrigation water management in relevant agricultural systems in Mediterranean climate. In the case of olive groves, the study of the determinants of evapotranspiration and its response to deficit irrigation has allowed the development of a procedure to optimize irrigation management in any situation of climate, soil, type of olive grove and water availability. More recently, our group has undertaken a similar study for almond trees, whose intensive irrigated cultivation is undergoing a major expansion and for which the basic information needed for irrigation scheduling is very limited.

• E-mail: orgaz@ias.csic.es
• IAS Main Building – Office 20 top floor
• Telephone: 957 49 92 32

Outstanding contributions

• González-Dugo, V.; López-López, M.; Espadafor, M.; Orgaz, F.; Testi, L.; Zarco-Tejada, P.; Lorite, I.J.; Fereres, E. 2019. Transpiration from canopy temperature: Implications for the assessment of crop yield in almond orchards. European Journal of Agronomy, 105: 78- 85.Plants, 9: 1213.
• López-Bernal, Á.; García-Tejera, O.; Testi, L.; Orgaz, F.; Villalobos, F.J. 2020. Studying and modelling winter dormancy in olive trees. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 280: 107776.
• Agustí-Brisach, C.; Moldero, D.; Raya, M.d.C.; Lorite, I.J.; Orgaz, F.; Trapero, A. 2020. Water Stress Enhances the Progression of Branch Dieback and Almond Decline under Field Conditions. Plants, 9: 1213.