TY - JOUR ID - 2786 TI - Actual impacts of global warming on winter wheat yield in Eastern Himalayas JO - International Journal of Plant Production JA - IJPP LA - en SN - 1735-6814 AU - Zheng, Ch. AU - Chen, Ch. AU - Zhang, X. AU - Song, Zh. AU - Deng, A. AU - Zhang, B. AU - Wang, L. AU - Mao, N. AU - Zhang, W. AD - Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology & Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China. AD - Institute of Applied Ecology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China AD - Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology & Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China AD - Tibet Vocational Technical College, Lhasa 850000, China AD - Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Lhasa, Lhasa 850000, China. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 159 EP - 174 KW - Climate Change KW - Food security KW - Free air temperature increase KW - Tibetan Plateau KW - Wheat cropping DO - 10.22069/ijpp.2016.2786 N2 - Himalayas, are among the areas most vulnerable to global warming, however, little is knownabout warming impacts on the crops. Therefore, the actual affects of anticipated warming onwinter wheat were tested in Tibet, China. During the period 1988-2012, Tibet region hasexperienced a large increase in daily mean, minimum and maximum temperatures during wheatgrowing seasons by 0.50, 0.67 and 0.51 oC every ten years, respectively. The de-trended wheatyield increased by 34.4 kg ha-1 year-1 during this period. According to the historical data, 1 oCincrease in daily mean temperature could get 370.6 kg ha−1 gain in wheat yield. Similar gains inwheat yield were found in a field warming experiment with an increase of 1.1 oC in daily meantemperature. The field warming caused a significant reduction in the pre-anthesis phase andentire growth period by 14 and 13 days, respectively. The green leaf areas and spike number inthe warmed plots were significantly higher than that in non-warmed plots, while the grainnumber per spike was significantly lower in the former than the later (P<0.05). The mainmechanism underlying the positive affects of this moderate warming on wheat yield is throughimproving plant development and growth during the pre-anthesis phase by mitigating the lowtemperature limitation. This study suggests that further efforts should be directed towards theimprovement on agriculture infrastructure to utilize the positive affects of climatic warming oncrop production. UR - https://ijpp.gau.ac.ir/article_2786.html L1 - https://ijpp.gau.ac.ir/article_2786_0165ef90ca8a83f78ec313cc95560d65.pdf ER -