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Velocity of temperature and flowering time in wheat – assisting breeders to keep pace with climate change

Overview of attention for article published in Global Change Biology, January 2016
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Title
Velocity of temperature and flowering time in wheat – assisting breeders to keep pace with climate change
Published in
Global Change Biology, January 2016
DOI 10.1111/gcb.13118
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Bangyou Zheng, Karine Chenu, Scott C Chapman

Abstract

By accelerating crop development, warming climates may result in mismatches between key sensitive growth stages and extreme climate events, with severe consequences for crop yield and food security. Using recent estimates of gene response to vernalisation and photoperiod in wheat, we modelled the flowering times of all 'potential' genotypes as influenced by the velocity of climate change across the Australian wheatbelt. In the period 1957 - 2010, seasonal increases in temperature of 0.012 °C y(-1) were recorded and changed flowering time of a mid-season wheat genotype by an average -0.074 d y(-1) , with flowering 'velocity' of up to 0.95 km y(-1) towards the coastal edges of the wheatbelt, i.e. this is an estimate of how quickly the given genotype would have to be 'moved' across the landscape in order to maintain its original flowering time. By 2030, these national changes are projected to accelerate by up to 3-fold for seasonal temperature and by up to 5-fold for flowering time between now and 2030, with average national shifts in flowering time of 0.33 d y(-1) and 0.41 d y(-1) between baseline and the worse climate scenario tested for 2030 and 2050, respectively. Without new flowering alleles in commercial germplasm, the life cycle of wheat crops is predicted to shorten by two weeks by 2030 across the wheatbelt for the most negative climate scenario. While current cultivars may be otherwise suitable for future conditions, they will flower earlier due to warmer temperatures. To allow earlier sowing to escape frost, heat and terminal drought, and to maintain current growing period of early-sown wheat crops in the future, breeders will need to develop and/or introduce new genetic sources for later flowering, more so in the eastern part of the wheatbelt. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 1%
Sweden 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Mexico 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 91 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 28%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 18%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 5 5%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 23 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 42 44%
Environmental Science 10 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 4%
Social Sciences 2 2%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 30 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 April 2022.
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#2,875,884
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#3,354
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Outputs of similar age
#48,362
of 403,382 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Global Change Biology
#37
of 84 outputs
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