CHANGES IN SURVIVAL OF WINTER CEREALS DUE TO ICE COVER AND OTHER SIMULATED WINTER CONDITIONS

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1141-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. ANDREWS ◽  
M. K. POMEROY
Keyword(s):  
Cold Hardiness ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Winter Cereal ◽  
High Soil Moisture ◽  
Winter Cereals ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Average Survival ◽  
Soil Temperatures ◽  
Protected Plants

The survival of winter cereal cultivars of contrasting cold hardiness was determined after various modifications of the winter environment at two locations in 3 yr at Ottawa, Ontario. Artificially produced ice covers reduced survival in all cases, and the severest damage was associated with high soil moisture at the time of ice formation. Maintenance of soil temperatures close to zero by replacement of an insulating snow cover over ice increased average survival by about 10% compared with non-insulated plots. Naturally formed ice covers were less damaging than those artificially produced, and in one case formation of an ice cover protected plants from very low air temperatures, resulting in greater survival than in control plots. Total removal of snow in January was severely damaging, while accumulation of snow at a snowfence allowed increased survival of all cultivars. The correlation between cold hardiness and survival in ice treatments was significant, but one wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar showed better survival than comparable wheats in a number of ice-stressed treatments, while not showing superiority in unstressed or controlled environment conditions.

Do wheat breeders have suitable genetic variation to overcome short coleoptiles and poor establishment in the warmer soils of future climates?

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg J. Rebetzke ◽  
Bangyou Zheng ◽  
Scott C. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Wheat Breeding ◽  
Crop Failure ◽  
Coleoptile Length ◽  
Crop Establishment ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Reduced Height ◽  
Soil Temperatures

Increases in air and soil temperatures will impact cereal growth and reduce crop yields. Little is known about how increasing temperatures will impact seedling growth and crop establishment. Climate forecast models predict that by 2060, mean and maximum air temperatures in the Australian wheatbelt will increase by 2−4°C during the March–June sowing period, and particularly at lower latitudes. Concomitant increases in soil temperature will shorten coleoptile length to reduce crop establishment, particularly where deep sowing to access sub-surface moisture. Mean coleoptile length was reduced in commercial wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm with increasing soil temperature (106 mm and 51 mm at 15°C and 31°C, respectively). Coleoptile lengths of modern semidwarf varieties were significantly (P < 0.01) shorter than those of older tall wheats at 15°C (95 mm and 135 mm) and 31°C (46 mm and 70 mm). A 12-parent diallel indicated large additive and small non-maternal genetic effects for coleoptile length at 15°C and 27°C. Large genotype rank changes for coleoptile length across temperatures (rs = 0.37, P < 0.05) contributed to smaller entry-mean heritabilities (0.41–0.67) to reduce confidence in selection for long-coleoptile genotypes across contrasting temperatures. General combining ability effects were strongly correlated across temperatures (rp = 0.81, P < 0.01), indicating the potential of some donors in identification of progeny with consistently longer coleoptiles. Warmer soils in future will contribute to poor establishment and crop failure, particularly with deep-sown semidwarf wheat. Breeding long-coleoptile genotypes with improved performance will require targeted selection at warmer temperatures in populations incorporating novel sources of reduced height and greater coleoptile length.

EVOLUTION OF POLYAMINES IN WINTER CEREAL AND FORAGE SPECIES UNDER FIELD COLD ACCLIMATION IN QUEBEC

1988 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. NADEAU ◽  
R. PAQUIN
Keyword(s):  
Cold Tolerance ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Phleum Pratense ◽  
Cold Hardening ◽  
Winter Rye ◽  
Winter Cereal ◽  
Winter Cereals ◽  
Forage Species ◽  
Secale Cereale L ◽  
Medicago Sativa L

Cold tolerance (LT50) and level of polyamines were measured in crowns of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), winter rye (Secale cereale L.), timothy (Phleum pratense L.) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) grown in two Quebec locations widely different in climates. Putrescine increased in winter cereals and timothy during cold hardening and showed a major peak at the end of winter at both locations (Saint-Hyacinthe and La Pocatière). There was a significant correlation between putrescine levels and cold tolerance during fall. However, in alfalfa, putrescine increased only at the end of winter and, like other species, decreased rapidly as plants underwent spring deacclimation. Levels of spermine and cadaverine remained low and showed little variation during winter. Spermidine levels were higher than spermine but remained stable during fall and winter. No significant correlation was observed between spermine, spermidine and cadaverine levels and cold hardiness.Key words: Polyamines, winter cereals, forage species, cold hardening

CHANGES IN COLD HARDINESS OF OVERWINTERING WINTER WHEAT

1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. ANDREWS ◽  
M. K. POMEROY ◽  
I. A. DE LA ROCHE
Keyword(s):  
Triticum Aestivum ◽  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Cold Hardiness ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Frozen Soil ◽  
Wheat Cultivars

Plantings of Rideau and Cappelle Desprez winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were made on 12, 21, and 28 September 1972, and sampled for cold hardiness and survival throughout the fall, winter, and spring. Samplings in winter from frozen soil were made with the aid of a concrete chipper with a vertically oscillating blade. Both wheat cultivars hardened rapidly in fall but the decline in hardiness and vigor under ice during winter was more rapid in Cappelle Desprez plants. Rideau plants rehardened after thawing of the ice cover. The greater hardiness and survival of Rideau plants was due possibly to their lower metabolic rate and consequent energy conservation under ice cover.

EFFETS DE L’HUMIDITE DU SOL, DES DATES DE SEMIS ET DES MAUVAISES HERBES SUR LE RENDEMENT DES CEREALES

1981 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-M. DESCHENES ◽  
J.-P. DUBUC
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Sandy Loam ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Hordeum Vulgare L ◽  
Yield Variation ◽  
High Soil Moisture ◽  
Seeding Date ◽  
Weed Cover ◽  
Mauvaises Herbes ◽  
Soil Temperatures

Soil moisture and weeds were evaluated under two seeding dates on a St. André sandy loam to explain the increase in grain yield observed with the early sowing of oats (Avena sativa L.), barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). For each seeding date (early and late May), two soil moisture levels were obtained using the seasonal precipitation as the first level and by adding 25 mm of water/week as the second level. Weed cover was noted on each plot. A greenhouse experiment was conducted by simulating the soil moisture and soil temperature conditions measured in the field. In the field, early seeding and irrigation increased the yield of cereals but the yield differences observed between seeding dates were greater than the yield differences obtained between soil moisture levels. Soil moisture does not explain by itself the increased yield obtained with early seeding because the plots sown in late May and irrigated produced about 80% of the yield obtained on plots sown early and not irrigated. The regression analysis has shown that the soil thermal units between sowing and emergence and the total amount of water between emergence and heading explain more than 50% of the yield variation of cereals. Weeds did not play an important role. Greenhouse results were comparable to those obtained in the field although the importance of soil moisture was more evident. On light soils at La Pocatière, the yield of cereals is regulated by cool soil temperatures at seeding and by high soil moisture level between emergence and heading. These conditions are generally met when seeding is done in early May.

Cropping systems for spring and winter cereals under simulated pasture: Yield and yield distribution

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. S. Baron ◽  
A. C. Dick ◽  
H. G. Najda ◽  
D. F. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Hordeum Vulgare L ◽  
Winter Cereal ◽  
Winter Triticale ◽  
Winter Cereals ◽  
Spring Cereals ◽  
Jointing Stage ◽  
Triticosecale Wittmack

Annual crops are used routinely for pasture in many parts of the world, but in Alberta they are used primarily to offset feed shortages. Experiments were conducted during 1987 and 1988 at Lacombe, Alberta under dryland conditions and at Brooks, Alberta under irrigation to determine the feasibility of using spring-planted combinations of spring and winter cereals to extend the grazing season. Treatments for simulated grazing were spring oat (Avena sativa L.), and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) monocrops (SMC), winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and winter triticale (X Triticosecale Wittmack) monocrops (WMC), spring and winter cereal binary mixtures, seeded together in the spring (intercrop-IC) and the winter cereal seeded after one clipping of the spring cereal (double crop-DC). Clippings were initiated at the jointing stage of the spring cereals and were repeated at intervals of 4 wk. The SMC produced the highest yields during the first two cuts (mid-June and mid-July), but regrowth declined thereafter. The WMC generally had superior yields after mid-July. The IC yield was similar to the higher of the SMC or WMC at any cut with more uniform productivity over the growing season. The DC was inferior to the IC for late summer and fall production. Averaged over years the IC produced 92 and 87% as much DM in the fall as the WMC at Lacombe and Brooks, respectively. Yield totalled over all cuts resulted in the sequence IC > WMC > DC > SMC. The IC is a feasible season-long pasture system under irrigation in southern Alberta and under rain-fed conditions in central Alberta. Key words: Cereals, double-crop, intercrop, monocrop, pasture, yields

SOME FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INJURY TO ALFALFA DURING THE 1977–78 WINTER AT BEAVERLODGE, ALBERTA

1980 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. McKENZIE ◽  
G. E. McLEAN
Keyword(s):  
Cold Hardiness ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Severely Injured ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Soil Temperatures ◽  
Cutting Management ◽  
Food Reserves ◽  
Perennial Legumes ◽  
Northern Alberta

During the 1977–78 winter, many perennial legumes were severely injured in northern Alberta and British Columbia. The winter was characterized by an early killing frost on 1 Sept. 1977. Air temperatures were −28 °C in late November and −43 °C in early December prior to any appreciable ground snow cover. This caused soil temperatures at 5 cm to drop to −19 °C. Field and laboratory experiments are described in which cold hardiness measurements (LT40), etiolated regrowth weight measurements of root food reserves and visual percent stand estimates were determined on various cultivars of Medicago sativa, M. media and M. falcata prior to, during and/or following the 1977–78 winter. Injury was first observed in plants collected from the field following the low soil temperatures in November and December. Fall cutting management studies indicated that alfalfa harvested during August or early September in 1977 suffered the most severe injury the following spring. In June 1978, first-cut yields of these plots were up to 50% lower than the yields from single-cut control plots or plots harvested after mid-September. M. sativa, M. media and M. falcata cultivars left for seed showed little evidence of winter injury. The results suggest that low fall food reserves which resulted from harvesting during August or early September and low soil temperatures in December and January were two primary factors associated with winter injury. M. sativa stands cut twice in 1977 were more severely injured than stands of M. media or M. falcata. Three-year-old stands of M. media were more severely injured than 2-yr-old stands.

scholarly journals Relationship between low-temperature tolerance and vernalization response in wheat and rye

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. Fowler ◽  
A. E. Limin ◽  
Shi-Ying Wang ◽  
R. W. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Cold Hardiness ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Temperature Tolerance ◽  
Temperature Acclimation ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Vernalization Response ◽  
Low Temperature Tolerance ◽  
Winter Cereals

Vernalization response and low-temperature acclimation are survival mechanisms that cereals have evolved to cope with low-temperature stress. Both responses have similar optimum temperature ranges for induction, and they are controlled by genetic systems that are interrelated. It has also been suggested that the completion of vernalization is responsible for the gradual loss in low-temperature tolerance observed in winter cereals maintained for long periods of time at temperatures in the optimum range for low-temperature acclimation. In the present study, two experiments were conducted with the objective of clarifying the relationship between vernalization response and low-temperature tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rye (Secale cereale L.). The plants of all cultivars began to low-temperature acclimate at a rapid rate when exposed to a constant 4 °C. The rate of change in low-temperature tolerance then gradually slowed and eventually started to decline, producing a curvilinear relationship between low-temperature tolerance and stage of acclimation. A close relationship was observed between the time to vernalization saturation and the start of the decline in low-temperature tolerance of cultivars held at 4 °C. However, cereal plants retained at least a partial ability to low-temperature acclimate following exposure to warm temperatures after vernalization saturation, indicating that vernalization saturation does not result in a "switching off" of the low-temperature tolerance genes. The possibility that vernalization genes have a more subtle regulatory role in the expression of low-temperature tolerance genes could not be ruled out, and future avenues for investigation are discussed. Key words: Cold hardiness, winter hardiness, cold resistance, low-temperature acclimation, deacclimation, vernalization, wheat, rye

The increase in survival of winter cereal seedlings due to light exposure during ice encasement

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Cold Hardiness ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
Winter Barley ◽  
Winter Rye ◽  
Winter Cereal ◽  
Winter Cereals ◽  
Nonstructural Carbohydrate ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Ice Encasement ◽  
Cellular Oxygen

Exposure of cold-hardened seedlings of a range of winter cereals (11 winter wheats, 1 winter barley, and 1 winter rye) to a light intensity of 100 μE∙m−2∙s−1 during ice encasement at −1 °C markedly increased survival in comparison with that in dark ice encasement. Cold hardiness of 'Dover' winter barley and 'Fredrick' and 'Norstar' winter wheats was significantly greater after a short period of light ice encasement than dark ice encasement. Less ethanol and more CO2 accumulated in plant crowns in light than dark ice, and lactic acid accumulated in the early days of ice encasement but was little influenced by light. There was greater utilization of total nonstructural carbohydrate in the crown in dark, than in light, and greater utilization of total nonstructural carbohydrate in ice than in air at −1 °C. Considerably less oxygen was consumed by plants in light than in dark ice, while leaves in aqueous solutions at −1 °C evolved significant levels of O2 in light but consumed O2 in the dark. It is proposed that the changes in metabolic components in light are associated with low-temperature photosynthesis, which provides cellular oxygen and greater levels of energy in support of cell maintenance in plants during ice encasement.

Date and rate of seeding of winter cereals in central Alberta

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. Jedel ◽  
D. F. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Black Soil ◽  
Kernel Weight ◽  
Winter Survival ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Canadian Prairies ◽  
Winter Cereal ◽  
Winter Triticale ◽  
Winter Cereals

Winter survival is often the most limiting factor for the use of winter cereals for grain production in the Black soil zones of the Canadian prairies. Production practices that optimize winter survival are an important part of extending the winter cereal acreage in this area. In this study, three dates of fall seeding (late August, early September, and late September) at two rates of seeding (258 and 328 seeds m−2) were investigated in 1988–1989, 1989–1990, and 1991–1992, at Lacombe, AB, using Musketeer fall rye (Secale cereale L.), Norstar and Norwin winter wheats (Triticum aestivum L. EM Thell), and Decade and Wintri winter triticales (× Triticosecale Rimpani Wit.). Survival was found to be best in all years when planting was conducted in late August and early September (78–99% survival). In both 1989 and 1990 the early planting resulted in the lowest yields (3.09 and 3.91 t ha−1), while in 1992 the latest planting resulted in the lowest yields (0.92 t ha−1). The early seeding resulted in earlier maturity in 1989 and 1992 (1–13 d). Test weight and kernel weight decreased with later planting (10–116 kg m−3 and 1–3.4 mg, respectively). Kernel protein was generally not affected by the treatments but was higher in some later planted material (0.2–1.0 g 100 g−1). Seeding rates were without effect on most traits, except grain yield in 1992 and kernel weight in 1990 and 1992 when rate effects varied among seeding dates. Date of seeding did not affect plant height except in 1992 when the later planted material was shorter. For all cultivars, survival was decreased with the late planting thereby increasing the risk of crop production. The window for seeding winter cereals in central Alberta is wider for the hardier cultivars and if forced to seed late, these cultivars should be selected. Key words: winter triticale, winter wheat, fall rye, yield, winter survival

scholarly journals Impact of Shade and Fogging on High Tunnel Production and Mineral Content of Organically Grown Lettuce, Basil, and Arugula in Georgia

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 625
Author(s):  
Savanah Laur ◽  
Andre Luiz Biscaia Ribeiro da Silva ◽  
Juan Carlos Díaz-Pérez ◽  
Timothy Coolong
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Content ◽  
Planting Date ◽  
High Tunnel ◽  
Lactuca Sativa L ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Shade Cloth ◽  
High Tunnels ◽  
Soil Temperatures ◽  
Organically Grown ◽  
The Impact

This study evaluated the impact of shade cloth and fogging systems on the microclimate at the plant canopy level and yield of basil (Oscimum basilicum L.), arugula (Eruca vesicaria subsp. Sativa L.), and lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) planted in mid-September and early October in high tunnels. Fogging systems were installed at canopy level in plots within shaded (30%) and non-shaded high tunnels. Average air temperatures in the shaded high tunnels were 0.9 °C lower than non-shaded high tunnels during the day. Shade cloth significantly reduced soil temperatures during the day and night periods by 1.5 °C and 1.3 °C, respectively, compared to non-shaded treatments. Fogging systems did not have an impact on air temperature, soil temperature, or relative humidity, but did increase canopy leaf wetness. Shade and fogging did not impact the yield of any of the crops grown. Yield was impacted by planting date, with earlier planting result in higher yields of lettuce and basil. Yields for arugula were greater during the second planting date than the first. Planting date and shade cloth interacted to affect the concentrations of macronutrients.

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