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Journal of Arid Land
Journal of Arid Land  2019, Vol. 11 Issue (6): 892-903    DOI: 10.1007/s40333-019-0028-3
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Impacts of climate warming and crop management on maize phenology in northern China
XIAO Dengpan1, ZHAO Yanxi1, BAI Huizi1, HU Yukun2, CAO Jiansheng2,*()
1 Engineering Technology Research Center, Geographic Information Development and Application of Hebei, Institute of Geographical Sciences, Hebei Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050011, China
2 Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
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Abstract  

Climate warming has and will continue to exert a significantly impact on crop phenology in the past and coming decades. Combining observed data of phenology and a crop growth model provides a good approach for quantitating the effects of climate warming and crop management on crop phenology. The purpose of this study is to determine the impacts of temperature change, sowing date (SD) adjustment and cultivar shift on maize phenology in northern China during 1981-2010. Results indicated that climate warming caused anthesis date (AD) and maturity date (MD) of maize to advance by 0.2?5.5 and 0.6?11.1 d/10a, respectively. Due to climate-driven changes in maize phenology, three growth periods of maize, i.e., vegetative growth period (VGP; from sowing to anthesis), reproductive growth period (RGP; from anthesis to maturity) and whole growth period (WGP; from sowing to maturity) shortened by 0.2?5.5, 0.4?5.6 and 0.6?11.1 d/10a, respectively. With SD adjustment (i.e., SD advancement), AD and MD occurred early by 0.5?2.6 and 0.1?3.4 d/10a, respectively. SD adjustment caused duration of VGP of maize to prolong. However, duration of RGP slightly shortened by 0.1?1.3 d/10a. Furthermore, due to cultivar shift, MD of maize significantly delayed by 4.9?12.2 d/10a. Durations of VGP, RGP and WGP of maize prolonged by 0.2?4.1, 1.6?8.4 and 4.3?11.8 d/10a, respectively. In conclusion, our results indicated that cultivar shift, to some extent, could mitigate the negative impact of climate warming on maize phenology.

Key words： anthesis date      maturity date      sowing date      growth period      cultivar shift     
Received: 25 May 2018      Published: 10 December 2019
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XIAO Dengpan, ZHAO Yanxi, BAI Huizi, HU Yukun, CAO Jiansheng. Impacts of climate warming and crop management on maize phenology in northern China. Journal of Arid Land, 2019, 11(6): 892-903.

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