Changing times: Opportunities for altering winter wheat phenology
Changing times: Opportunities for altering winter wheat phenology
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时代变迁:改变冬小麦物候的机会
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10.1002/ppp3.10163
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发表时间:
2020
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通讯作者:
Sheehan H
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作者:
Sheehan H
Social Impact StatementClimate change presents challenges to agricultural production systems. Wheat is a significant crop in the United Kingdom, occupying 40% of arable land area. Increased temperatures and drought risk are predicted to lead to future productivity losses. Plant breeders and researchers are working to develop more resilient wheat varieties although are often driven by different motivating factors compared to farmers. Here, we report on a dialog with agronomists working with farmers in wheat‐producing regions throughout the UK to gain greater understanding of the farm‐level importance of wheat flowering time and maturity along with the future opportunities and risks presented by earlier flowering varieties.SummaryOptimized environmental adaptation is the cornerstone of regional crop breeding. Recent and predicted future instability for long‐standing adaptive response presents new challenges to selective breeding. Wheat is a long day plant, requiring extended daylength to initiate flowering, a response controlled by thePhotoperiod‐1(Ppd‐1) gene. Mutations conferring photoperiod insensitivity arose during domestication, allowing rapid flowering in both short and long days and extending wheat's adaptive range. In the United Kingdom, wheat production is dominated by photoperiod‐sensitive winter varieties which have a relatively narrow window of flowering time. Changing seasonal conditions alongside mounting logistics pressure as a result of loss of effective agrochemicals and increasing seasonal weather fluctuations mean that greater flexibility in varietal flowering time is likely required to sustain UK wheat productivity. In this Opinion piece, we present findings from a recent dialog with UK agronomists on the demand and likely potential for greater flowering time range in winter wheat varieties. This provides important insight connecting farmer priorities and demands with ongoing genetic research and breeding. Our findings highlight the farm‐level importance of wheat phenology and provide recommendations for future research and plant breeding.
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