Productivity, Sustainability and Resilience of Rice Production System

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Production".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 3135

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Research and Development Center of Rice Cropping Technology, China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI), Hangzhou 310006, China
Interests: rice cultivation; rice physiological process under abiotic stress; chemical regulation to keep high production of rice and so on
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Dear Colleagues,

Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. More than 40% of the world’s population eats a rice-based diet, and rice production, therefore, plays a considerable part in assuring food security and energy supply. At the same time, there are currently 820 million hungry people in the world. By 2050, it is estimated that the global population will exceed 9 billion, and about 70% more food will be required for human consumption. Furthermore, abiotic stresses mainly caused by global climate change and deteriorated environment occurred frequently. This brings about great threats to rice production systems and increases the risk of world hunger. Therefore, agricultural technologies conducive to increasing productivity, sustainability and resilience of rice grain production are in urgent need. This Special Issue aims at collecting studies providing effective strategies for improving grain yield, water (nitrogen fertilizer et al.) use efficiency, resilience of rice plant to unfavorable environmental abiotic stresses, and obtaining new sights on corresponding physiological regulation mechanisms. Papers including original research and reviews deal with the above topics of are welcomed in this Special Issue.

Dr. Tingting Chen
Dr. Guanfu Fu
Dr. Longxing Tao
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Keywords

  • rice
  • high yield
  • cultivation management
  • use efficiency
  • abiotic stress
  • regulation mechanisms

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Estimating Yield and Economic Losses Induced by Ozone Exposure in South China Based on Full-Coverage Surface Ozone Reanalysis Data and High-Resolution Rice Maps
by Jie Pei, Pengyu Liu, Huajun Fang, Xinyu Gao, Baihong Pan, Haolin Li, Han Guo and Feng Zhang
Agriculture 2023, 13(2), 506; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13020506 - 20 Feb 2023
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Surface ozone (O3) pollution is an emerging environmental abiotic stress that poses substantial risks to crop yield losses and food security worldwide, and especially in China. However, the O3-induced detrimental effects on double-season rice have rarely been investigated at [...] Read more.
Surface ozone (O3) pollution is an emerging environmental abiotic stress that poses substantial risks to crop yield losses and food security worldwide, and especially in China. However, the O3-induced detrimental effects on double-season rice have rarely been investigated at large scales and over relatively long temporal spans. In this study, we estimated the crop production reductions and associated economic losses for double-season rice across southern China during 2013–2019, using a high spatial resolution surface ozone reanalysis dataset and rice distribution maps, and county-level production data, in combination with a locally derived exposure-response function for rice. Results show that AOT40 (cumulative hourly O3 exposure above 40 ppb) presented generally increasing trends over growing seasons in 2013–2019, spanning from 4.0 to 7.1 ppm h and 6.1 to 10.5 ppm h for double-early rice and double-late rice, respectively. Moreover, O3-induced relative yield losses ranged from 4.0% to 6.6% for double-early rice and 6.3% to 11.1% for double-late rice. Over the seven years, ambient O3 exposure resulted in crop production losses of 1951.5 × 104 tons and economic losses of 8,081.03 million USD in total. To combat the O3-induced agricultural risks, measures such as stringent precursors emission reductions and breeding O3-resistant cultivars should be continuously implemented in the future. Full article
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