RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Impacts of temperature increase and change in precipitation pattern on ecophysiology, biomass allocation and yield quality of selected crops
A1 Drebenstedt,Ireen
WP 2023/03/22
AB Climate change poses a challenge for the production of crops in the twenty-first century due to alterations in environmental conditions. In Central Europe, temperature will be increased and precipitation pattern will be altered, thereby influencing soil moisture content, physiological plant processes and crop development in agricultural areas, with impacts on crop yield and the chemical composition of seeds. Warming and drought often occur simultaneously. The combination of multiple abiotic stresses can be synergistic, leading to additive negative effects on crop productivity. To date, little information is available from multi-factor experiments analyzing interactive effects of warming and reduced precipitation in an arable field. In addition, one major issue of studying climate change effects on crop development in the long-term is that weather conditions can vary strongly between years, e.g., with hot and dry summers in comparison to cool and wet ones, which directly affects soil moisture content and indirectly affects crop development. Thus, considering yearly weather conditions seems to be important for the analyses of climate change effects on aboveground biomass and harvestable yield of crops. 
The aim of the present work was to identify single and combined effects of soil warming (+2.5 °C), reduced summer precipitation amount (-25%), and precipitation frequency (-50%) on crop development, ecophysiology, aboveground biomass and yield as well as on yield quality of wheat, barley, and oilseed rape grown in the Hohenheim Climate Change (HoCC) field experiment. This thesis presents novel results from the HoCC experiment in the long-term perspective. Thus, aboveground biomass and yield data (2009-2018) of the three crops were analyzed with regard to their inter-annual variability, including annual fluctuations in weather conditions.This thesis consists of three publications. In the first and second publication a field experiment within the scope of the HoCC experiment was conducted with spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. RGT Planet) and winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L. cv. Mercedes) in 2016 and 2017. The objective was to investigate the impacts of soil warming, altered precipitation pattern and their interactions on biomass production and crop yield. In addition, it was examined, whether the simulated climate changes affecting barley photosynthesis and the seed quality compounds of oilseed rape. In the third publication, long-term plant productivity data of wheat, barley, and oilseed rape were evaluated, including aboveground biomass and yield data from the field experiment in 2018 with winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Rebell). 

K1 Klimaänderung
K1 Kulturpflanzen
K1 Weizen
K1 Gerste
K1 Raps
K1 Trockenheit
K1 Dürre
K1 Erwärmung
PP Hohenheim
PB Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
UL http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2023/2133