Rice production threatened by coupled stresses of climate and soil arsenic

Muehe, E. Marie; Wang, Tianmei; Kerl, Carolin F.; Planer-Friedrich, Britta; Fendorf, Scott

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12946-4

Rice production threatened by coupled stresses of climate and soil arsenic

Journal Article · Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12946-4· OSTI ID:1597477

Muehe, E. Marie ^[1]; Wang, Tianmei ^[1]; ^[2]; Planer-Friedrich, Britta ^[2]; ^[1]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Univ. of Bayreuth (Germany)

Projections of global rice yields account for climate change. They do not, however, consider the coupled stresses of impending climate change and arsenic in paddy soils. Here, we show in a greenhouse study that future conditions cause a greater proportion of pore-water arsenite, the more toxic form of arsenic, in the rhizosphere of Californian Oryza sativa L. variety M206, grown on Californian paddy soil. As a result, grain yields decrease by 39% compared to yields at today’s arsenic soil concentrations. In addition, future climatic conditions cause a nearly twofold increase of grain inorganic arsenic concentrations. Our findings indicate that climate-induced changes in soil arsenic behaviour and plant response will lead to currently unforeseen losses in rice grain productivity and quality. Pursuing rice varieties and crop management practices that alleviate the coupled stresses of soil arsenic and change in climatic factors are needed to overcome the currently impending food crisis.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)

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OSTI ID:: 1597477

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 10; ISSN 2041-1723

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Language:: English

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