Publications by authors named "Shao-Wu Hu"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how elevated CO levels affect rice growth, focusing on the development of spikelets, grain filling, and overall rice quality, using a specific cultivar under controlled conditions.
- - Results indicate that increased CO levels boosted overall grain yield by 18.3%, but also led to a reduction in spikelets per panicle and filled-grain percentage due to more empty grains developing in all panicle parts.
- - Notably, the increase in grain dimensions and chalkiness, as well as slight changes in amylose content, were consistent across different grain positions on the panicle, suggesting uniform responses despite some variations in yield metrics.
Light and carbon dioxide (CO) are two essential components for plant photosynthesis. To understand the effects of elevated CO concentration on photosynthetic characteristics of hybrid rice under different light conditions, two hybrid rice varieties (YLY900 and YY538) were grown in the field using a free-air CO enrichment facility (FACE) in 2017 with two CO concentration treatments (ambient CO and elevated 200 μmol·mol above ambient CO), the photosynthesis traits of top full expansion leaves were measured in both sunny and cloudy days at jointing and grain filling stages. Elevated CO increased net photosynthetic rate (P) of two rice varieties.
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