Timing and intensity of heat and drought stress determine wheat yield losses in Germany.

Autor: Riedesel L; Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Strategies and Technology Assessment, Kleinmachnow, Germany., Möller M; Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Braunschweig, Germany., Horney P; Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Strategies and Technology Assessment, Kleinmachnow, Germany., Golla B; Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Strategies and Technology Assessment, Kleinmachnow, Germany., Piepho HP; Institute of Crop Science, Biostatistics Unit, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany., Kautz T; Humboldt University of Berlin, Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Berlin, Germany., Feike T; Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Strategies and Technology Assessment, Kleinmachnow, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Jul 25; Vol. 18 (7), pp. e0288202. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 25 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288202
Abstrakt: Crop yields are increasingly affected by climate change-induced weather extremes in Germany. However, there is still little knowledge of the specific crop-climate relations and respective heat and drought stress-induced yield losses. Therefore, we configure weather indices (WIs) that differ in the timing and intensity of heat and drought stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). We construct these WIs using gridded weather and phenology time series data from 1995 to 2019 and aggregate them with Germany-wide municipality level on-farm wheat yield data. We statistically analyze the WI's explanatory power and region-specific effect size for wheat yield using linear mixed models. We found the highest explanatory power during the stem elongation and booting phase under moderate drought stress and during the reproductive phase under moderate heat stress. Furthermore, we observed the highest average yield losses due to moderate and extreme heat stress during the reproductive phase. The highest heat and drought stress-induced yield losses were observed in Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, and northern Bavaria, while similar heat and drought stresses cause much lower yield losses in other regions of Germany.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Riedesel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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