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Genotypic differences in soybean yield responses to increasing temperature in a cool climate are related to maturity group

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Title: Genotypic differences in soybean yield responses to increasing temperature in a cool climate are related to maturity group
Authors: Kumagai, Etsushi Browse this author
Sameshima, Ryoji Browse this author
Keywords: Global warming
High temperature
Maturity group
Soybean
Yield
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier
Journal Title: Agricultural and forest meteorology
Volume: 198
Start Page: 265
End Page: 272
Publisher DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.08.016
Abstract: To adapt soybean production to climate change, a thorough understanding of its response to high temperature is required. Modeling studies have predicted that high temperature would shorten the growth period and hence lower seed yield of less day length-sensitive (early-maturing) soybean cultivars, whereas the magnitude of yield reduction by high temperature would be smaller in cultivars with higher day length sensitivity (late-maturing), suggesting that late-maturing cultivars would benefit from a future high-temperature environment. Current mean growing season temperature ranges from 19.4 to 22.6 degrees C in the northern, cool regions of Japan, which is near or below the reported optimum temperature (22-24 degrees C) for seed yield. We tested the hypothesis that adaptation by growing late-maturing cultivars will be successful in maintaining seed yield under a cool climate when temperature is increased during 21st century. We used three Japanese soybean cultivars, early-maturing Yukihomare and late-maturing cultivars Ryuhou and Enrei. Plants were grown over 3 years from June to September (a conventional season) under three temperature regimes, T1 (ambient), T2 (1.8-3.6 degrees C above ambient), T3 (4.8-5.7 degrees C above ambient), in a sunlit temperature gradient chamber. The leaf area at the full expansion stage, pod and seed numbers, and seed yield increased at elevated temperature in the late-maturing cultivars but not in the early-maturing one. The photosynthetic rate and effective quantum yield of photosystem II at the flowering stage increased at elevated temperature in all three cultivars. The period from sowing to the beginning of flowering (R1) decreased in all three cultivars at elevated temperature, whereas the period from R1 to the beginning of pod addition and the flowering period were prolonged in the late-maturing cultivars, but not in the early-maturing one. The differential response in post-flowering development in different maturity groups is probably related to the differences in the day length requirements of these cultivars. Our data clearly demonstrate that yield enhancement by increasing temperature in the late-maturing cultivars resulted from both the improvement in sources (leaf area and leaf photosynthesis) and the increase in sink size (number of flowers, pods and seeds) due to the longer flowering period. We conclude that the yield of the late-maturing cultivars sown during the conventional season in the cool regions of Japan will increase during the 21st century. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Type: article (author version)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/57799
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