Abstract:It is well know that the agricultural water resource is very limited in North China (which lies in the continental monsoon region in warm temperate zone), especially during winter wheat growth period. The sufficient use of available soil water at planting (ASWp ) stored in the deep soil layer is an effective measure to improve water use efficiency (WUE). The key point of utilizing water in the deeper soil layer is exploiting the root water absorbing function in the profile, that is optimize the root distrib...