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Optimizing Crop Water Use for Drought and Climate Change Adaptation Requires a Multi-Scale Approach

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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.824720/full
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.824720
 
Title Optimizing Crop Water Use for Drought and Climate Change Adaptation Requires a Multi-Scale Approach
 
Creator Burridge, J D
Grondin, A
Vadez, V
 
Subject Crop Physiology
Drought
 
Description Selection criteria that co-optimize water use efficiency and yield are needed to promote plant productivity in increasingly challenging and variable drought scenarios, particularly dryland cereals in the semi-arid tropics. Optimizing water use efficiency and yield fundamentally involves transpiration dynamics, where restriction of maximum transpiration rate helps to avoid early crop failure, while maximizing grain filling. Transpiration restriction can be regulated by multiple mechanisms and involves cross-organ coordination. This coordination involves complex feedbacks and feedforwards over time scales ranging from minutes to weeks, and from spatial scales ranging from cell membrane to crop canopy. Aquaporins have direct effect but various compensation and coordination pathways involve phenology, relative root and shoot growth, shoot architecture, root length distribution profile, as well as other architectural and anatomical aspects of plant form and function. We propose gravimetric phenotyping as an integrative, cross-scale solution to understand the dynamic, interwoven, and context-dependent coordination of transpiration regulation. The most fruitful breeding strategy is likely to be that which maintains focus on the phene of interest, namely, daily and season level transpiration dynamics. This direct selection approach is more precise than yield-based selection but sufficiently integrative to capture attenuating and complementary factors.
 
Publisher Frontiers Media
 
Date 2022-04-29
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights cc_attribution
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12454/1/Frontiers%20in%20Plant%20Science_13_1-14_2022.pdf
Burridge, J D and Grondin, A and Vadez, V (2022) Optimizing Crop Water Use for Drought and Climate Change Adaptation Requires a Multi-Scale Approach. Frontiers in Plant Science (TSI), 13. pp. 1-14. ISSN 1664-462X