Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

Lian Song; Luis Guanter; Kaiyu Guan; Liangzhi You; Alfredo Huete; Weimin Ju; Yongguang Zhang

doi:10.1111/gcb.14302

journal article Jun 22, 2018

Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

Lian Song

Global Change Biology Vol. 24 No. 9 pp. 4023-4037 · Wiley

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Abstract

AbstractExtremely high temperatures represent one of the most severe abiotic stresses limiting crop productivity. However, understanding crop responses to heat stress is still limited considering the increases in both the frequency and severity of heat wave events under climate change. This limited understanding is partly due to the lack of studies or tools for the timely and accurate monitoring of crop responses to extreme heat over broad spatial scales. In this work, we use novel spaceborne data of sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), which is a new proxy for photosynthetic activity, along with traditional vegetation indices (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index NDVI and Enhanced Vegetation Index EVI) to investigate the impacts of heat stress on winter wheat in northwestern India, one of the world's major wheat production areas. In 2010, an abrupt rise in temperature that began in March adversely affected the productivity of wheat and caused yield losses of 6% compared to previous year. The yield predicted by satellite observations of SIF decreased by approximately 13.9%, compared to the 1.2% and 0.4% changes in NDVI and EVI, respectively. During early stage of this heat wave event in early March 2010, the SIF observations showed a significant reduction and earlier response, while NDVI and EVI showed no changes and could not capture the heat stress until late March. The spatial patterns of SIF anomalies closely tracked the temporal evolution of the heat stress over the study area. Furthermore, our results show that SIF can provide large‐scale, physiology‐related wheat stress response as indicated by the larger reduction in fluorescence yield (SIFyield) than fraction of photosynthetically active radiation during the grain‐filling phase, which may have eventually led to the reduction in wheat yield in 2010. This study implies that satellite observations of SIF have great potential to detect heat stress conditions in wheat in a timely manner and assess their impacts on wheat yields at large scales.

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Published: Jun 22, 2018
Vol/Issue: 24(9)
Pages: 4023-4037
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Authors

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Lian Song

International Institute for Earth System Sciences Nanjing University Nanjing China; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application Nanjing China

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Luis Guanter

Helmholtz Center Potsdam Remote Sensing Section GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences Potsdam Germany

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Kaiyu Guan

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana Illinois

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Liangzhi You

Macro Agriculture Research Institute College of Plant Science & Technology Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan China; International Food Policy Research Institute Washington District of Columbia

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Alfredo Huete

Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster University of Technology Sydney Haymarket NSW Australia

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Weimin Ju

International Institute for Earth System Sciences Nanjing University Nanjing China; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application Nanjing China

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Yongguang Zhang

International Institute for Earth System Sciences Nanjing University Nanjing China; Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application Nanjing China

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China Award: 2016YFA0600202

International Cooperation and Exchange Programs of National Science Foundation of China Award: 41761134082

Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation Award: GU 1276/1-1

General Program of National Science Foundation of China Award: 41671421

Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China Award: BK20170018

Cite This Article

Lian Song, Luis Guanter, Kaiyu Guan, et al. (2018). Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains. Global Change Biology, 24(9), 4023-4037. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14302

Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains

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