Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies

Climate change is expected to increasingly affect rice production through rising temperatures and decreasing water availability. Unlike other crops, rice is a main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions due to methane emissions from flooded paddy fields. Climate change can therefore be addressed in...

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Main Authors: Heredia, Maria Cristina, Kant, Josefine, Prodhan, M. Asaduzzaman, Dixit, Shalabh, Wissuwa, Matthias
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Springer 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127468
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author Heredia, Maria Cristina
Kant, Josefine
Prodhan, M. Asaduzzaman
Dixit, Shalabh
Wissuwa, Matthias
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Heredia, Maria Cristina
Kant, Josefine
Prodhan, M. Asaduzzaman
Wissuwa, Matthias
author_facet Heredia, Maria Cristina
Kant, Josefine
Prodhan, M. Asaduzzaman
Dixit, Shalabh
Wissuwa, Matthias
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description Climate change is expected to increasingly affect rice production through rising temperatures and decreasing water availability. Unlike other crops, rice is a main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions due to methane emissions from flooded paddy fields. Climate change can therefore be addressed in two ways in rice: through making the crop more climate resilient and through changes in management practices that reduce methane emissions and thereby slow global warming. In this review, we focus on two water saving technologies that reduce the periods lowland rice will be grown under fully flooded conditions, thereby improving water use efficiency and reducing methane emissions. Rice breeding over the past decades has mostly focused on developing high-yielding varieties adapted to continuously flooded conditions where seedlings were raised in a nursery and transplanted into a puddled flooded soil. Shifting cultivation to direct-seeded rice or to introducing non-flooded periods as in alternate wetting and drying gives rise to new challenges which need to be addressed in rice breeding. New adaptive traits such as rapid uniform germination even under anaerobic conditions, seedling vigor, weed competitiveness, root plasticity, and moderate drought tolerance need to be bred into the current elite germplasm and to what extent this is being addressed through trait discovery, marker-assisted selection and population improvement are reviewed.
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spelling CGSpace1274682023-12-08T19:36:04Z Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies Heredia, Maria Cristina Kant, Josefine Prodhan, M. Asaduzzaman Dixit, Shalabh Wissuwa, Matthias rice wet season dry season greenhouse gases planting Climate change is expected to increasingly affect rice production through rising temperatures and decreasing water availability. Unlike other crops, rice is a main contributor to greenhouse gas emissions due to methane emissions from flooded paddy fields. Climate change can therefore be addressed in two ways in rice: through making the crop more climate resilient and through changes in management practices that reduce methane emissions and thereby slow global warming. In this review, we focus on two water saving technologies that reduce the periods lowland rice will be grown under fully flooded conditions, thereby improving water use efficiency and reducing methane emissions. Rice breeding over the past decades has mostly focused on developing high-yielding varieties adapted to continuously flooded conditions where seedlings were raised in a nursery and transplanted into a puddled flooded soil. Shifting cultivation to direct-seeded rice or to introducing non-flooded periods as in alternate wetting and drying gives rise to new challenges which need to be addressed in rice breeding. New adaptive traits such as rapid uniform germination even under anaerobic conditions, seedling vigor, weed competitiveness, root plasticity, and moderate drought tolerance need to be bred into the current elite germplasm and to what extent this is being addressed through trait discovery, marker-assisted selection and population improvement are reviewed. 2022-01 2023-01-18T20:17:41Z 2023-01-18T20:17:41Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127468 en Limited Access Springer Heredia, M.C., Kant, J., Prodhan, M.A., Dixit, S. and Wissuwa, M. 2022. Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 135:17–33.
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wet season
dry season
greenhouse gases
planting
Heredia, Maria Cristina
Kant, Josefine
Prodhan, M. Asaduzzaman
Dixit, Shalabh
Wissuwa, Matthias
Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
title Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
title_full Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
title_fullStr Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
title_full_unstemmed Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
title_short Breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
title_sort breeding rice for a changing climate by improving adaptations to water saving technologies
topic rice
wet season
dry season
greenhouse gases
planting
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127468
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