Response and adaptation of soybean systems to climate warming in Northeast China: insights gained from long-term field trials
H. F. Zheng A B , L. D. Chen B D and X. Z. Han A C
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A Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin Province 130012, China.
B State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
C National Field Research Station of Agroecosystem in Hailun; Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081, China.
D Corresponding author. Email: zhfdd@msn.com
Crop and Pasture Science 62(10) 876-882 https://doi.org/10.1071/CP11167
Submitted: 4 July 2011 Accepted: 29 September 2011 Published: 6 December 2011
Abstract
Developing and assessing successful strategies to alleviate adverse impact of climate warming presents a new opportunity for sustainable agriculture and adaptation investment. Efforts to anticipate adaptation of cropping systems may benefit from understanding the global warming effects within decades. This study quantitatively examines the temperature warming impacts during, respectively, growing season and seed filling on soybean yields by using data from long-term field fertilisation experiments from 1987 to 2004. Here we report that grain yields significantly decreased with rising temperature during growing season, whereas the effects of increasing temperature at seed-filling stage on crop yields were significantly positive. The results indicate that a further temperature increment during seed filling appears to decrease soybean system’s risk of yield reduction. Importantly, we inferred that earlier occurrence of seed filling would increase the temperature of this period. The implication is that advancing the onset of soybean seed filling could be an effective adaptation option to global warming, providing an average yield benefit of ~14% per 10 days before the present date.
Additional keywords: adaptations, global warming, seed filling, soybean yield.
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