scholarly journals Effects of temperature frequency trends on projected japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield and dry matter distribution with elevated carbon dioxide

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11027
Author(s):  
Zeyu Zhou ◽  
Jiming Jin ◽  
Libing Song ◽  
Ling Yan

In this study, we investigated the effects of temperature frequency trends on the projected yield and dry matter distribution of japonica rice (Oryza sativa L.) with elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) under future climate change scenarios in northwestern China. The Crop Environment Resource Synthesis (CERES)-Rice model was forced with the outputs from three general circulation models (GCMs) to project the rice growth and yield. Future temperature trends had the most significant impact on rice growth, and the frequency of higher than optimal temperatures (∼24–28 oC) for rice growth showed a marked increase in the future, which greatly restricted photosynthesis. The frequency of extreme temperatures (>35 oC) also increased, exerting a strong impact on rice fertilization and producing a significantly reduced yield. Although the increased temperature suppressed photosynthetic production, the elevated CO2 stimulated this production; therefore, the net result was determined by the dominant process. The aboveground biomass at harvest trended downward when temperature became the major factor in photosynthetic production and trended upward when CO2-fertilization dominated the process. The trends for the leaf and stem dry matter at harvest were affected not only by changes in photosynthesis but also by the dry matter distribution to the panicles. The trends for the rice panicle dry matter at harvest were closely related to the effects of temperature and CO2 on photosynthetic production, and extreme temperatures also remarkably affected these trends by reducing the number of fertilized spikelets. The trends of rice yield were very similar to those of panicle dry matter because the panicle dry matter is mostly composed of grain weight (yield). This study provides a better understanding of the japonica rice processes, particularly under extreme climate scenarios, which will likely become more frequent in the future.

1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 2186-2194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Turkington

Replicates of two genotypes of Trifolium repens L., collected from a Poa pratensis dominated sward and a Dactylis glomerata dominated sward, respectively, were grown in swards composed of various proportions of P. pratensis and D. glomerata. These swards represented a range of environments of neighbours; an increasing proportion of P. pratensis was considered as an increasingly alien environment for individuals of T. repens collected from the D. glomerata dominated site, and vice-versa for the individuals from the P. pratensis dominated site. The individuals of T. repens were harvested on five occasions over a period of 27 months. Both genotypes responded to increasingly alien environments by producing more inflorescences and by distributing proportionately more dry matter to inflorescence production. Some evidence is also presented which suggests that allocation to stolons and inflorescences are alternatives and the balance of the trade off is dependent on the advantages of possibly producing new, better adapted offspring from seed, against the chances of a wandering stolon encountering a less hostile environment. Results are discussed in the context of environmental alienness, a major source of which is the different relative proportions of neighbours. The various genotypes of organisms which a relatively mobile plant species encounters are a major source of this environmental, or biotic, alienness.


1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Steinbeck

Four random clones of American sycamore supplied with four concentrations of Hoagland's solution differed in their response to and interacted with treatment as far as height and diameter growth and total dry matter production in the first growing season were concerned. Varying nutrient intensity did not affect the time of the seasonal peak of height and diameter growth; better growth was maintained subsequent to the seasonal peak at the higher concentrations, however. The proportions of the trees in terms of dry-matter distribution and branching characteristics changed with nutrient concentration.


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