Optimal sowing time to adapt soybean production to global warming with different cultivars in the Huanghuaihai Farming Region of China

Zheng, Haoyu; Zhang, Li; Sun, Hongbao; Zheng, Axiang; Harrison, Matthew Tom; Li, Wenjie; Zou, Jun; Zhang, Datong; Chen, Fu; Yin, Xiaogang

doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109386

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“…Furthermore, during the growing season of summer maize, SR in July and August was significantly higher than in September ( Figure 6B ), and in the past 40 years, SR has shown a decreasing trend, especially in the later growing season ( Figure 7B ). Therefore, the sowing date should be advanced before 15 June to obtain abundant SR. Other research in soybean also indicated that a delayed sowing date to 20 June in the Huang-Huai-Hai region decreased temperature exposure and growing degree days, reducing the duration of grain filling, leaf area index, and photosynthesis, in turn decreasing the number of grains per plant and 1,000-grain weight ( Zheng et al., 2024 ). From a precipitation perspective, in the past 40 years, precipitation has been mainly concentrated on 6 July and 25 July ( Figure 6A ), and exhibited an increasing trend from mid-June to early September, which may have resulted in drought in the sowing stage and waterlogging in the seedling stage for the early sowing date.…”

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Influence of climatic variables on maize grain yield and its components by adjusting the sowing date

Wu,

Yue,

et al. 2024

Front. Plant Sci.

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Yield and its components are greatly affected by climate change. Adjusting the sowing date is an effective way to alleviate adverse effects and adapt to climate change. Aiming to determine the optimal sowing date of summer maize and clarify the contribution of climatic variables to grain yield and its components, a consecutive 4-year field experiment was conducted from 2016 to 2019 with four sowing dates at 10-day intervals from 5 June to 5 July. Analysis of historical meteorological data showed that more solar radiation (SR) was distributed from early June to mid-August, and the maximum temperature (Tmax) > 32°C appeared from early July to late August, which advanced and lasted longer in 1991–2020 relative to 1981–1990. Additionally, the precipitation was mainly distributed from early June to late July. The climate change in the growing season of summer maize resulted in optimal sowing dates ranging from 5 June to 15 June, with higher yields and yield stability, mainly because of the higher kernel number per ear and 1,000-grain weight. The average contribution of kernel number per ear to grain yield was 58.7%, higher than that of 1,000-grain weight (41.3%). Variance partitioning analysis showed that SR in 15 days pre-silking to 15 days post-silking (SS) and silking to harvest (SH) stages significantly contributed to grain yield by 63.1% and 86.4%. The extreme growing degree days (EDD) > 32°C, SR, precipitation, and diurnal temperature range (DTR) contributed 20.6%, 22.9%, 14.5%, and 42.0% to kernel number per ear in the SS stage, respectively. Therefore, we concluded that the early sowing dates could gain high yield and yield stability due to the higher SR in the growing season. Meanwhile, due to the decreasing trend in SR and increasing Tmax trend in this region, in the future, new maize varieties with high-temperature resistance, high light efficiency, shade tolerance, and medium-season traits need to be bred to adapt to climate change and increased grain yield.

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