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Are portable polyethylene tents reliable for imposing heat treatments in field-grown wheat?

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dc.creator Kim, Jinwook
dc.creator Slafer, Gustavo A.
dc.creator Savin, Roxana
dc.date 2021
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-03T12:17:08Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-03T12:17:08Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108206
dc.identifier 0378-4290
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/71928
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/24252
dc.description Environmental variability has increased in recent decades and there are high expectations that heat waves will affect wheat productivity. Therefore, methods to quantify the effects of high temperature on wheat growth, yield, and yield-related traits under field conditions are greatly needed. In this opinion paper, we first describe the different approaches to quantify these effects, briefly highlighting their pros and cons. Portable polyethylene tents over the plots are cost-effective and convenient when relatively large plots are preferred and/or when there is no access to electricity in the field. This method shares a drawback with other approaches due to the tent reducing light intensity and altering other environmental factors like wind, humidity and evapotranspiration. We discuss to what degree there is an actual confounding effect (incorrectly assigning changes to heat effects that might be in part due to lower radiation). In that context, we not only discuss the issue theoretically, but also present results from a field experiment comparing a control (open uncovered plot), and a "roof-only" treatment (covering the plot with a polyethylene roof alone; thus impacting incoming radiation but not temperature). These treatments were imposed at either booting or the onset of grain filling, and testing two wheat cultivars having contrasting grain numbers per m2 and average grain weight. Supporting a theoretical framework that this reduced radiation would be compensated by increased radiation use efficiency, we show empirically that the roof-only treatment (which reduced incoming photosynthetically active radiation by 10.7 ± 0.2 % at noon on sunny days, but did not alter the temperature at any time of the day) did not result in any yield penalty with respect to the uncovered control plots. Thus, portable polyethylene tents are a reliable method to impose heat treatments in field experiments. Although other methods are more sophisticated and may be perceived as having fewer confounding factors, portable polyethylene tents are ideally suited to irrigated field experiments where electricity is not available, where relatively large plots are needed, and for research carried out on a limited budget.
dc.description Funding was provided by project RTI2018-096213-B-100 funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). Jinwook Kim held a pre-doctoral research contract from AGAUR (the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of Catalonia).
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-096213-B-I00/ES/PLASTICIDAD FENOTIPICA DEL RENDIMIENTO Y CALIDAD DE TRIGO EN RESPUESTA A GOLPES DE CALOR EN FASES REPRODUCTIVAS DE GENOTIPOS CONTRASTANTES/
dc.relation Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108206
dc.relation Field Crops Research, 2021, vol. 271, núm. 108206
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Elsevier, 2021
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es
dc.subject High-temperature
dc.subject Global warming
dc.subject Climate change
dc.subject Field
dc.subject Wheat
dc.title Are portable polyethylene tents reliable for imposing heat treatments in field-grown wheat?
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion


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