Abstract
Rice panicle temperature (Tp) is a key factor for studying high temperature impacts on spikelet sterility. Comparing with measuring Tp by hand, a Tp simulation model could obtain Tp data readily. The two-layer energy budget model which divides the soil layer and canopy layer was widely used to predict rice canopy temperature (Tc), but panicle existed mostly in the upper layer canopy, and we have proved that Tc was different from the upper layer canopy temperature (Tc1), and the upper layer must be separated from the whole canopy for the purpose of estimating Tp. Thus, we developed the three-layer model, contained upper canopy layer with panicle (50–100 cm), lower rice canopy layer (10–40 cm), and water surface layer (≤10 cm) to estimate Tp with general meteorological and vegetation growth data. There were two steps to estimate Tp. The first step was calculating Tc1 and lower layer canopy temperature (Tc2) by solving heat balance equations with canopy resistances. And the second step was estimating Tp with following parameters: (a) the inclination factors of leaves and panicles (F1, F2, and Fp) which were decided by fitting the calculated transmissivity of downward solar radiation (TDSR) to the measured TDSR, (b) the aerodynamic resistance between the panicle and atmosphere (rap) denoted by wind speed, (c) the panicle resistance for transpiration (rp) denoted by days after heading, and (d) air temperature and humidity at the panicle’s height (Tac1 and eac1) calculated from the resistances of the pathways of sensible and latent heat fluxes in accordance with Ohm’s law. The model simulated fairly well the Tc1, Tc2, and Tp with root mean square errors (RMSEs) of 0.76°C, 0.75°C, and 0.81°C, respectively, where RMSE of measured Tp and predicted Tp by integrated micrometeorology model for panicle and canopy temperature (IM2PACT) including two-layer model was 1.27°C. This model was validated well by two other rice cultivars, and thus, it demonstrated the three-layer model was a new feasible way to estimate Tp.
Highlights
With increasing concerns about global warming, the impacts of higher temperature on rice production have become a major focus in many rice-producing countries in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
Panicles’ height ranges from 50 cm to 100 cm, and this part of the rice plant was set as the upper canopy layer. ere was no panicle on July 18, and the heading was observed on July 25 (Figure 4). e average of the
F1 was smaller than F2 because the transmissivity of solar radiation was larger in the upper layer, and the leaf area index of the upper layer canopy (a1) was bigger than that in the lower layer (a2)
Summary
With increasing concerns about global warming, the impacts of higher temperature on rice production have become a major focus in many rice-producing countries in tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]. Abeysiriwardena et al [24] revealed high temperature condition (35°C day/30°C night) induced complete grain sterility when relative humidity (RH) was 85–95%. Contrary to the results above, [25, 26] demonstrated spikelet sterility of rice did not occur seriously even daily maximum Ta was over 40°C in Australia during the 2004–2006 growing seasons because the Advances in Meteorology strong transpirational cooling by low relative humidity (80%) and low wind speed (u < 1 m s−1) conditions [27]
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