Title
Global warming can negate the expected CO<inf>2</inf> stimulation in photosynthesis and productivity for soybean grown in the midwestern United States
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Siebers M.
Gray S.B.
Drag D.W.
Rosenthal D.M.
Kimball B.A.
Ort D.R.
Bernacchi C.J.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Publisher(s)
American Society of Plant Biologists
Abstract
Extensive evidence shows that increasing carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) stimulates, and increasing temperature decreases, both net photosynthetic carbon assimilation (A) and biomass production for C3 plants. However the [CO2]-induced stimulation in A is projected to increase further with warmer temperature.While the influence of increasing temperature and [CO2], independent of each other, on A and biomass production have been widely investigated, the interaction between these two major global changes has not been tested on field-grown crops. Here, the interactive effect of both elevated [CO2] (approximately 585 μmol mol-1) and temperature (+3.5°C) on soybean (Glycine max) A, biomass, and yield were tested over two growing seasons in the Temperature by Free-Air CO2 Enrichment experiment at the Soybean Free Air CO2 Enrichment facility. Measurements of A, stomatal conductance, and intercellular [CO2] were collected along with meteorological, water potential, and growth data. Elevated temperatures caused lower A, which was largely attributed to declines in stomatal conductance and intercellular [CO2] and led in turn to lower yields. Increasing both [CO2] and temperature stimulated A relative to elevated [CO2] alone on only two sampling days during 2009 and on no days in 2011. In 2011, the warmer of the two years, there were no observed increases in yield in the elevated temperature plots regardless of whether [CO2] was elevated. All treatments lowered the harvest index for soybean, although the effect of elevated [CO2] in 2011 was not statistically significant. These results provide a better understanding of the physiological responses of soybean to future climate change conditions and suggest that the potential is limited for elevated [CO2] to mitigate the influence of rising temperatures on photosynthesis, growth, and yields of C3 crops. © 2013 American Society of Plant Biologists. All Rights Reserved.
Start page
410
End page
423
Volume
162
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Investigación climática
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84877075614
Source
Plant Physiology
ISSN of the container
00320889
Sources of information:
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