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Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Adopting deficit irrigation (DI) to improve crop production and safeguard groundwater resources is of great importance in water scarce regions, e.g., the North China Plain (NCP). Under the background of global warming, it is worth investigating whether DI continues to play such a key...

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Autores principales: Niu, Xiaoli, Feng, Puyu, Liu, De-Li, Wang, Bin, Waters, Cathy, Zhao, Na, Ma, Tiancheng
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9138343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35625420
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology11050692
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author Niu, Xiaoli
Feng, Puyu
Liu, De-Li
Wang, Bin
Waters, Cathy
Zhao, Na
Ma, Tiancheng
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Feng, Puyu
Liu, De-Li
Wang, Bin
Waters, Cathy
Zhao, Na
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Adopting deficit irrigation (DI) to improve crop production and safeguard groundwater resources is of great importance in water scarce regions, e.g., the North China Plain (NCP). Under the background of global warming, it is worth investigating whether DI continues to play such a key role under future climate change scenarios. Thus, we studied the effect of DI on wheat yield and water use efficiency under future climate change scenarios. We found that moderate deficit irrigation (DI3, ≤0.4 PAWC at sowing to flowering stage) under the N3 (150 kg N ha(−1)) condition was identified as the optimum irrigation schedule for the study site under future climate change scenarios. However, the compensation effect of DI3 on yield and water use efficiency (WUE) became weak in the future. To conclude, in water scarce regions of NCP, DI remains an effective strategy to maintain higher yield and enhance water use under future climate scenarios. ABSTRACT: Background. Deficit irrigation (DI) is a feasible strategy to enhance crop WUE and also has significant compensation effects on yield. Previous studies have found that DI has great potential to maintain crop production as full irrigation (FI) does. Therefore, adopting DI to improve crop production and safeguard groundwater resources is of great importance in water scarce regions, e.g., the North China Plain (NCP). Under the background of global warming, it is worth investigating whether DI continues to play such a key role under future climate scenarios. Methods. We studied the response of winter wheat yield and WUE to different DI levels at pre-anthesis under two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios (SSP245 and SSP585) using the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) model driven by 21 general circulation models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Inter-Comparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6). Additionally, we explored the effects of different nitrogen (N) fertilizer application rates on DI. Results. We found that simulated wheat yield would increase by 3.5–45.0%, with WUE increasing by 8.8–46.4% across all treatments under future climate change. Moderate deficit irrigation (DI3, ≤0.4 PAWC at the sowing to flowering stage) under the N3 (150 kg N ha(−1)) condition was identified as the optimum irrigation schedule for the study site under future climate change. However, compensation effects of DI3 on yield and WUE became weak in the future, which was mainly due to increased growing season rainfall projected by GCMs. In addition, we found that N fertilizer application could mitigate the effect of DI3. Conclusions. We highlight that in water scarce regions of NCP, DI remains an effective strategy to maintain higher yield and enhance water use under future climate scenarios. Results strongly suggest that moderate deficit irrigation under a 150 kg N ha(−1) condition could mitigate the contradiction between production and water consumption and ensure food safety in the NCP.
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spelling pubmed-91383432022-05-28 Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain Niu, Xiaoli Feng, Puyu Liu, De-Li Wang, Bin Waters, Cathy Zhao, Na Ma, Tiancheng Biology (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Adopting deficit irrigation (DI) to improve crop production and safeguard groundwater resources is of great importance in water scarce regions, e.g., the North China Plain (NCP). Under the background of global warming, it is worth investigating whether DI continues to play such a key role under future climate change scenarios. Thus, we studied the effect of DI on wheat yield and water use efficiency under future climate change scenarios. We found that moderate deficit irrigation (DI3, ≤0.4 PAWC at sowing to flowering stage) under the N3 (150 kg N ha(−1)) condition was identified as the optimum irrigation schedule for the study site under future climate change scenarios. However, the compensation effect of DI3 on yield and water use efficiency (WUE) became weak in the future. To conclude, in water scarce regions of NCP, DI remains an effective strategy to maintain higher yield and enhance water use under future climate scenarios. ABSTRACT: Background. Deficit irrigation (DI) is a feasible strategy to enhance crop WUE and also has significant compensation effects on yield. Previous studies have found that DI has great potential to maintain crop production as full irrigation (FI) does. Therefore, adopting DI to improve crop production and safeguard groundwater resources is of great importance in water scarce regions, e.g., the North China Plain (NCP). Under the background of global warming, it is worth investigating whether DI continues to play such a key role under future climate scenarios. Methods. We studied the response of winter wheat yield and WUE to different DI levels at pre-anthesis under two Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios (SSP245 and SSP585) using the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM) model driven by 21 general circulation models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Inter-Comparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6). Additionally, we explored the effects of different nitrogen (N) fertilizer application rates on DI. Results. We found that simulated wheat yield would increase by 3.5–45.0%, with WUE increasing by 8.8–46.4% across all treatments under future climate change. Moderate deficit irrigation (DI3, ≤0.4 PAWC at the sowing to flowering stage) under the N3 (150 kg N ha(−1)) condition was identified as the optimum irrigation schedule for the study site under future climate change. However, compensation effects of DI3 on yield and WUE became weak in the future, which was mainly due to increased growing season rainfall projected by GCMs. In addition, we found that N fertilizer application could mitigate the effect of DI3. Conclusions. We highlight that in water scarce regions of NCP, DI remains an effective strategy to maintain higher yield and enhance water use under future climate scenarios. Results strongly suggest that moderate deficit irrigation under a 150 kg N ha(−1) condition could mitigate the contradiction between production and water consumption and ensure food safety in the NCP. MDPI 2022-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9138343/ /pubmed/35625420 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology11050692 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Bin
Waters, Cathy
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Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain
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title_full Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain
title_fullStr Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain
title_full_unstemmed Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain
title_short Deficit Irrigation at Pre-Anthesis Can Balance Wheat Yield and Water Use Efficiency under Future Climate Change in North China Plain
title_sort deficit irrigation at pre-anthesis can balance wheat yield and water use efficiency under future climate change in north china plain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9138343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35625420
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology11050692
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