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Growth and yield responses of rice to carbon dioxide concentration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. T. Baker ,
L. H. Allen Jr  and
K. J. Boote
J. T. Baker
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department
L. H. Allen Jr
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
K. J. Boote
Affiliation:
Agronomy Department
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Summary

Rice plants (Oryza saliva L., cv. IR30) were grown in paddy culture in outdoor, naturally sunlit, controlled-environment, plant growth chambers at Gainesville, Florida, USA, in 1987. The rice plants were exposed throughout the season to subambient (160 and 250), ambient (330) or superambient (500, 660, 900 μmol CO2/mol air) CO2 concentrations. Total shoot biomass, root biomass, tillering, and final grain yield increased with increasing CO2 concentration, thegreatest increase occurring between the 160 and 500 μmol CO2/mol air treatments. Early in the growing season, root:shoot biomass ratio increased with increasing CO2 concentration; although the ratio decreased during the growing season, net assimilation rate increased with increasingCO2 concentration and decreased during the growing season. Differences in biomass and lamina area among CO2 treatments were largely due to corresponding differences in tillering response. The number of panicles/plant was almost entirely responsible for differences in final grain yield among CO2 treatments. Doubling the CO2 concentration from 330 to 660 μmol CO2/mol air resulted in a 32 % increase in grain yield. These results suggest that important changes in the growth and yield of rice may be expected in the future as the CO2 concentration of the earth's atmosphere continues to rise.

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Crops and Soils
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 115 , Issue 3 , December 1990 , pp. 313 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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