Characterizing root-water-uptake of wheat under elevated CO2 concentration

Jinjie Fan, Xun Wu, Yangliu Yu, Qiang Zuo, Jianchu Shi, Moshe Halpern, Jiandong Sheng, Pingan Jiang and Alon Ben-Gal

Agricultural Water Management, 2023, vol. 275, issue C

Abstract: Delineating root-water-uptake (RWU) under conditions with augmented CO2 concentrations is very important for scheduling irrigation to contend with climate change. Responses of plant growth to elevated CO2 concentration (e[CO2]) have been widely reported, while the effects of e[CO2] on RWU has hardly been studied. A hydroponic experiment of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) with five NO3−-N concentrations (Exp. 1) was conducted to investigate and quantify the effects of e[CO2] on RWU activity. Another experiment growing wheat in soil columns with four combinations of water and N supply levels (Exp. 2) was conducted to validate the results obtained in Exp. 1, establishing a macroscopic RWU model to simulate soil water dynamics under e[CO2]. Although CO2 acclimation was observed in both experiments, plant canopy and root growth were generally stimulated under e[CO2], while transpiration consumption was not synchronously enhanced due to decreased stomatal conductance, indicating an increase in water use efficiency while a decrease in RWU activity. Potential transpiration was found more linearly related to root nitrogen mass (RNM) than root length under various CO2 concentrations, regardless of wheat growth stage, water and N supply level. Consequently, RNM density was used to drive the RWU model. The results from Exp. 1 indicated that the effects of e[CO2] on water uptake coefficient per RNM could be quantified by a recently proposed nonlinear stomatal conductance response model (R2 = 0.84, RMSE = 0.55 cm3 mg−1 d−1). The RWU model reliably simulated the dynamics of soil water transport and wheat transpiration under e[CO2] in Exp. 2 with the RMSE and relative errors mostly less than 0.03 cm3 cm−3 and 10 %, respectively. Practical application of the established RWU model for any other specific conditions is expected to benefit from optimization of parameters following choice of most appropriate stomatal conductance response model.

Keywords: Root uptake activity; Root nitrogen mass; Stomatal conductance; Plant transpiration; Climate change; Triticum aestivum L (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2022.108005

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