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Developmental and tillering responses of winter wheat (Triticum aestivuni) crops to CO2 and temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

G. R. Batts ,
T. R. Wheeler ,
J. I. L. Morison ,
R. H. Ellis  and
P. Hadley
G. R. Batts
Affiliation:
Department of MeteorologyThe University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK Department of AgricultureThe University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK Department of Horticulture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
T. R. Wheeler
Affiliation:
Department of MeteorologyThe University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK Department of AgricultureThe University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK Department of Horticulture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
J. I. L. Morison
Affiliation:
Department of MeteorologyThe University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
R. H. Ellis
Affiliation:
Department of AgricultureThe University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
P. Hadley
Affiliation:
Department of Horticulture, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 236, Reading RG6 6AT, UK
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Summary

Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L., cv. Hereward) was grown in the field within four double-walled polyethylene-covered tunnels along which near-linear temperature gradients were imposed at normal atmospheric or at an elevated CO2 concentration (c. 700 μmol mol−1 CO2) in 1991/92 and in a further experiment in 1992/93. Development was more rapid the warmer the temperature. In 1991/92 an increase in mean seasonal temperature of 3·5 °C reduced the duration from sowing to harvest maturity (the stage when grain moisture content reduced naturally to 15–18%) by c. 38 days, and reduced the duration from the double ridge stage to harvest maturity by c. 34 days. A similar difference resulted from only 1·6 °C warming in 1992/93. Although the range of mean seasonal temperatures differed between years, the relation between temperature and rate of development from sowing to harvest maturity was common to both years (base temperature, −0.8 °C; thermal time 2410 °C d). Carbon dioxide concentration had no effect on this relation or on that between temperature and the rate of development from sowing to the double ridge stage and from the double ridge stage to harvest maturity. Carbon dioxide enrichment increased tillering substantially in 1991/92; there were 200 more shoots m−2 at terminal spikelet formation in crops grown at elevated compared to normal CO2 (additional shoots were principally coleoptile tillers and those developing after tiller 2) and this difference was reduced to 100 shoots m−2 approaching harvest maturity (additional shoots remaining were those developing after tiller 2). In contrast, no effect of CO2 enrichment on tillering was detected at any stage of development in 1992/93. The number of tillers per plant at terminal spikelet formation was a linear function of main stem dry weight at this developmental stage; this relationship was not affected by year or CO2. As CO2 enrichment increased main stem dry weight in the first year only, when main stem dry weights at normal CO2 were only one half of those values determined in the following year, it is concluded that any benefit of increase in CO2 concentration to tillering in winter wheat may be greatest in those crop production environments where main stem dry weights at terminal spikelet are least and vice versa.

Type
Crops and Soils
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 127 , Issue 1 , August 1996 , pp. 23 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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