“…Complex crop responses to water stress have continually been a research focus of deficit irrigation (Andarzian et al., ; Iqbal et al., ; Mkhabela & Bullock, ; Steduto, Hsiao, Raes, & Fereres, ; Toumi et al., ). Many studies have analyzed the relationships between crop growth, ET, and RWU (Goosheh, Pazira, Gholami, Andarzian, & Panahpour, ; Han et al., ; Jha et al., ), while others have studied crop growth and ET under deficit irrigation (Salemi et al., ; Yu, Zeng, Su, Cai, & Zheng, ). Andarzian et al.…”