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Thermal time in sprinkler-irrigated lowland rice

Soma térmica em arroz de terras baixas irrigado por aspersão

Abstract:

The objective of this work was to evaluate methods of thermal time calculation and the duration of the development stages of lowland rice (Oryza sativa) irrigated by sprinkling. The experiment was conducted during three growing seasons (2010/2011, 2011/2012, and 2014/2015), with five irrigation water depths, six cultivars, and four replicates. Six methods of thermal time calculation were tested: two using the minimum basal temperature; two using the minimum and optimum temperatures; and two using the minimum, optimum, and maximum basal temperatures. For the thermal time calculation, the crop development cycle was divided into the vegetative, reproductive, and grain-filling phases. The methods that used the three cardinal temperatures showed the lowest coefficients of variation for most of the developmental phases. Both irrigation water depths and rice cultivars affected the thermal time of the development stages. The greater the water availability, the lower the duration of the development cycle. Thermal time values depend on the calculation method.

Index terms:
Oryza sativa; degree-day; irrigation water depth; phenology; water availability.

Resumo:

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar métodos de cálculo da soma térmica e a duração das fases de desenvolvimento de arroz (Oryza sativa) de terras baixas irrigado por aspersão. O experimento foi realizado durante três anos agrícolas (2010/2011, 2011/2012 e 2014/2015), com cinco lâminas de irrigação, seis cultivares e quatro repetições. Seis métodos de cálculo da soma térmica foram avaliados: dois com a temperatura basal inferior; dois com as temperaturas basal inferior e ótima; e dois com as temperaturas basal inferior, ótima e superior. Para o cálculo da soma térmica, o ciclo de desenvolvimento da cultura foi dividido nas fases vegetativa, reprodutiva e de enchimento de grãos. Os métodos que utilizaram as três temperaturas cardinais apresentaram os menores coeficientes de variação na maioria das fases de desenvolvimento. Tanto as lâminas de irrigação quanto as cultivares de arroz influenciaram a soma térmica das fases de desenvolvimento. Quanto maior é a disponibilidade hídrica, menor é a duração do ciclo de desenvolvimento. Os valores de soma térmica dependem do método de cálculo.

Termos para indexação:
Oryza sativa; grau-dia; lâmina de irrigação; fenologia; disponibilidade hídrica.

Introduction

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation in the western region, known as Fronteira Oeste of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, is carried out predominantly by flooded irrigation. In this system, water demand is high, as maintaining a permanent water depth on the soil surface requires water saturation, besides the replacement of the water lost by crop evapotranspiration, percolation and lateral flow in the crop area and in irrigation channels (Reunião…, 2010REUNIÃO TÉCNICA DA CULTURA DO ARROZ IRRIGADO, 28., 2010, Bento Gonçalves. Arroz irrigado: recomendações técnicas da pesquisa para o Sul do Brasil. Porto Alegre: Sosbai, 2010. 188p.). Sprinkler irrigation is an alternative to this system, in which water is provided only to supply crop evapotranspiration, which reduces other losses. Therefore, some producers of Fronteira Oeste have chosen to cultivate sprinkler-irrigated rice to reduce water consumption and facilitate crop rotation.

However, sprinkler-irrigated lowland rice cultivation may alter the basic growth and development processes already known under flooded-irrigation cultivation. In a study under flooded and nonflooded environments, Bosco et al. (2009)BOSCO, L.C.; GRIMM, E.L.; STRECK, N.A. Crescimento e desenvolvimento de genótipos de arroz cultivados em solo alagado e não-alagado. Revista Ceres, v.56, p.796-804, 2009. showed that growth and development of lowland rice are affected by the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Thus, its necessary to investigate the effect of the irrigation system on basic processes of growth and development of rice cultivars traditionally grown in flooded soil.

Air temperature (Streck et al., 2008STRECK, N.A.; BOSCO, L.C.; LUCAS, D.D.P.; LAGO, I. Modelagem da emissão de folhas em arroz cultivado e em arroz-vermelho. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v.43, p.559-567, 2008. DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2008000500002.
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) and water availability (Cho & Oky, 2012CHO, J.; OKY, T. Application of temperature, water stress, CO2 in rice growth models. Rice, v.5, p.1-8, 2012. DOI: 10.1186/1939-8433-5-10.
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) are the two abiotic factors that most affect plant growth and development. The temperature effects on these processes have been evaluated by using thermal calculation values in degree-days (Renato et al., 2013RENATO, N. dos S.; SILVA, J.B.L.; SEDIYAMA, G.C.; PEREIRA, E.G. Influência dos métodos para cálculo de graus-dia em condições de aumento de temperatura para as culturas de milho e feijão. Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, v.28, p.382-388, 2013. DOI: 10.1590/S0102-77862013000400004.
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). This method is based on the fact that plants require the summation of thermal units to complete their developmental stages.

Thermal time can be calculated by several methods, from which the simplest one is that which measures the thermal accumulation above a lower threshold value (lower basal temperature). However, from a biological point of view, plant response to temperature is best represented by the use of three cardinal temperatures, that is, the lower basal, optimum, and upper basal temperatures (Erpen et al., 2013ERPEN, L.; STRECK, N.A.; UHLMANN, L.O.; LANGNER, J.A.; WINCK, J.E.M.; GABRIEL, L.F. Estimativa das temperaturas cardinais e modelagem do desenvolvimento vegetativo em batata-doce. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, v.17, p.1230-1238, 2013. DOI: 10.1590/S1415-43662013001100015.
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).

The duration of plant development stages is important for defining crop management practices, such as the choice of sowing dates and application of fertilizers and other chemical products (Freitas et al., 2006FREITAS, T.F.S. de; SILVA, P.R.F. da; STRIEDER, M.L.; SILVA, A.A. da. Validação de escala de desenvolvimento para cultivares brasileiras de arroz irrigado. Ciência Rural, v.36, p.404-410, 2006. DOI: 10.1590/S0103-84782006000200008.
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), calibration of growth, and development simulation models (Rosa et al., 2015ROSA, H.T.; WALTER, L.C.; STRECK, N.A.; DE CARLI, C.; RIBAS, G.G.; MARCHESAN, E. Simulação do crescimento e produtividade de arroz no Rio Grande do Sul pelo modelo SimulArroz. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, v.19, p.1159-1165, 2015. DOI: 10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v19n12p1159-1165.
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), as well as for the irrigation management.

The objective of this work was to evaluate methods of thermal time calculation and the duration of the development stages of lowland rice irrigated by sprinkling.

Materials and Methods

The study was carried out at the experimental area of Universidade Federal do Pampa (Unipampa), located in the municipality of Itaqui, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (29°09'22"S, 56°33'03"W, at 74 m altitude). The climate of the region is a Cfa - subtropical without a defined dry season - according to Köppen-Geiger’s classification. The soil is classified as a Plinthudult (Santos et al., 2013SANTOS, H.G. dos; JACOMINE, P.K.T.; ANJOS, L.H.C. dos; OLIVEIRA, V.A. de; LUMBRERAS, J.F.; COELHO, M.R.; ALMEIDA, J.A. de; CUNHA, T.J.F.; OLIVEIRA, J.B. de. Sistema brasileiro de classificação de solos. 3.ed. rev. e ampl. Brasília: Embrapa, 2013. 353p.).

Three experiments were conducted during three growing seasons (2010/2011, 2011/2012, and 2014/2015). A experimental split-plot randomized block design was carried out with four replicates. Water depths were evaluated in the plots, and six lowland rice cultivars - IRGA 417, IRGA 424, and Inov CL, in 2010/2011 and 2011/2012, and IRGA 428, IRGA 429, and XP 102 CL, in 2014/2015 - were evaluated in the subplots. In the 2011/2012 growing season, water depths of 0, 50, 100, and 150% of the crop evapotranspiration (ETc) were evaluated, whereas, in the 2010/2011 and 2014/2015 growing seasons, the water depths of 0, 50, 100, 150, and 200% of ETc were evaluated. Sowings were conducted on 11/9/2010, 10/22/2011, and 11/17/2014, within the recommended period for rice cultivation.

The experimental plots were composed of 18 rows of 5.0 m long, spaced at 0.17 m, totaling 15.3 m2. Sowing density was of 100 kg seed ha-1 (or 350 plants m-2) for IRGA 417, IRGA 424, IRGA 428, and IRGA 429 cultivars, and of 50 kg seed ha-1 (or 175 plants m-2) for Inov CL and XP 102 CL which are hybrids.

Irrigation requirement was determined from the ETc obtained by multiplying the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) by the crop coefficient (Kc). ETo was estimated by the Penman-Monteith equation (Allen et al., 1998ALLEN, R.G.; PEREIRA, L.S.; RAES, D.; SMITH, M. Crop evapotranspiration: guidelines for computing crop water requirements. Roma: FAO, 1998. 300p. (FAO. Irrigation and drainage paper, 56).) based on data of temperature, air humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation, obtained at an automatic weather station located 200 m from the cultivation site. Crop coefficient (Kc) values were: 1.05, up to 20 days after emergence (DAE); 1.125, from 21 to 40 DAE; 1.2, from 41 to 95 DAE; and 0.9, from 95 DAE on (Allen et al., 1998ALLEN, R.G.; PEREIRA, L.S.; RAES, D.; SMITH, M. Crop evapotranspiration: guidelines for computing crop water requirements. Roma: FAO, 1998. 300p. (FAO. Irrigation and drainage paper, 56).).

Irrigation was performed with a fixed irrigation shift of two days. Irrigation volume was calculated by the sum of ETc, divided by the irrigation system efficiency (70%). When the precipitation volume was above the accumulated ETc since the last irrigation, one day was not accounted for ETc, or two days when the volume was ≥50 mm.

Fertilization was carried out according to the recommendation for rice cultivation by the Comissão de Química e Fertilidade do Solo, for soils of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina (Manual…, 2004MANUAL de adubação e de calagem para os Estados do Rio Grande do Sul e Santa Catarina. 10.ed. Porto Alegre: Comissão de Química e Fertilidade do Solo - RS/SC, 2004. 400p.), for an expected grain yield of 12 Mg ha-1. The control of weeds, insects, and diseases, as well as other crop management practices, were carried out whenever necessary, according to technical recommendations for irrigated rice cultivation in Southern Brazil (Reunião…, 2010REUNIÃO TÉCNICA DA CULTURA DO ARROZ IRRIGADO, 28., 2010, Bento Gonçalves. Arroz irrigado: recomendações técnicas da pesquisa para o Sul do Brasil. Porto Alegre: Sosbai, 2010. 188p.) for maintain plants free of stress.

Phenology was determined according to Counce et al. (2000)COUNCE, P.A.; KEISLING, T.C.; MITCHELL, A.J. A uniform, objective, and adaptive system for expressing rice development. Crop Science, v.40, p.436-443, 2000. DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2000.402436x.
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scale. The emergence (EM) was considered when 50% of plants were visible above the ground. The other development stages - panicle differentiation (R1), anthesis (R4), and physiological maturity (R9) - were monitored daily. In the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 growing seasons, the development stages were monitored in ten randomly selected plants per subplot. The beginning of each developmental stage was considered as the date at which 50% of plants were at the same phenological stage. In the 2014/2015 growing season, four plants were monitored per subplot right after their emergence, and the date of the beginning of each stage was registered.

Daily thermal time (TTd, °C day) was determined by six linear methods (Streck et al., 2007aSTRECK, N.A.; MICHELON, S.; BOSCO, L.C.; LAGO, I.; WALTER, L.C.; ROSA, H.T.; DE PAULA, G.M. de. Soma térmica de algumas fases do ciclo de desenvolvimento da escala de COUNCE para cultivares sul-brasileiras de arroz irrigado. Bragantia, v.66, p.357-364, 2007a. DOI: 10.1590/S0006-87052007000200020.
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, 2007bSTRECK, N.A.; PAULA, F.L.M. de; BISOGNIN, D.A.; HELDWEIN, A.B.; DELLAI, J. Simulating the development of field grown potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, v.142, p.1-11, 2007b. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.09.012.
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; Rosa et al., 2009ROSA, H.T.; WALTER, L.C.; STRECK, N.A.; ALBERTO, C.M. Métodos de soma térmica e datas de semeadura na determinação de filocrono de cultivares de trigo. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v.44, p.1374-1382, 2009. DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009001100002.
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). Methods using only one cardinal temperature (methods 1.1 and 1.2), two cardinal temperatures (2.1 and 2.2), and three cardinal temperatures (3.1 and 3.2) were used, as described below.

Method 1.1: TTd = (Tmean - Tb) × 1 day; if Tmean<Tb, then Tmean=Tb

Method 1.2: TTd = (Tmean - Tb) × 1 day; if Tmin≤Tb, then Tmin=Tb

Method 2.1: TTd = (Tmean - Tb) × 1 day; if Tmean<Tb, then Tmean=Tb; if Tmean>Topt, then Tmean=Topt

Method 2.2: TTd = (Tmean - Tb) × 1 day; if Tmin<Tb, then Tmin=Tb; if Tmax>Topt, then Tmax=Topt

Method 3.1: TTd = (Tmean - Tb) × 1 day, when Tb≤Tmean≤Topt; TTd = {(Topt - Tb) × [(TB - Tmean) / (TB - Topt)]} × 1 day, when Topt<Tmean≤TB; if Tmean<Tb, then Tmean=Tb; if Tmean>TB, then Tmean=TB

Method 3.2: TTd = (Tmean - Tb) × 1 day, when Tb≤Tmean≤Topt; TTd = {(Topt - Tb) × [(TB - Tmean) / (TB - Topt)]} × 1 day, when Topt<Tmean≤TB; if Tmin <Tb, then Tmin=Tb; if Tmax>TB, then Tmax=TB

In the equations above, the variables stand for: TTd, daily thermal time (°C day); Tmean, mean daily air temperature (°C), calculated by the arithmetic mean of the maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) daily air temperatures; and Tb, Topt, and TB are, respectively, the cardinal temperatures (°C) for the lower basal temperature, optimum temperature, and upper basal temperature for rice plant development.

Crop developmental cycle was divided into vegetative (EM−R1), reproductive (R1−R4), and grain-filling (R4−R9) phases. Cardinal temperatures for each developmental phase were obtained from the literature (Table 1). The accumulated thermal time (TTa, °C day) for each crop developmental phase was calculated by TTa = ΣTTd.

Table 1.
Cardinal temperatures estimated by different authors for different developmental phases of lowland rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars.(1 )

The efficiency of TTa methods was evaluated by the coefficients of variation (CV) of cultivars and irrigation water depths, in the three growing seasons (2010/2011, 2011/2012, and 2014/2015). The statistical analysis was performed for all development stages only in the 2014/2015 growing season, as the dates at which the development stages occurred in the other growing seasons were considered when the averages of all replicates, in each treatment, were at each respective development stages. Therefore, in those growing seasons, the date of each replicate was not registered separately. The data of the 2014/2015 growing season were subjected to the analysis of variance, and treatments were compared by the Tukey’s test, at 5% probability.

Results and Discussion

The meteorological conditions during the three growing seasons were distinct (Figures 1 and 2). In the 2010/2011 growing season, frequent and high volumes of precipitations occurred throughout the crop development cycle, with 1,502.8 mm precipitated volume, which is equivalent to twice the normal (725.7 mm) for the period in the municipality of Itaqui, RS, Brazil, as a result of El Niño phenomenon (NOAA, 2016NOAA. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Historical El Niño/ La Niña episodes: cold & warm episodes by season. Available at: <Available at: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ensoyears_1971-2000_climo.shtml >. Accessed on: Jan. 21 2016.
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). In the 2011/2012 growing season, low amounts of rainfall (340.0 mm) were observed, with values lower than the half of the expected volume for the period, according to climatologic normal for the place (Wrege et al., 2011WREGE, M.S.; STEINMETZ, S.; REISSER JÚNIOR, C.; DE ALMEIDA, I.R. Atlas climático da Região Sul do Brasil: estados do Paraná, Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul. Pelotas: Embrapa Clima Temperado; Colombo: Embrapa Florestas, 2011. 336p.). Temperature (26.0°C) and relative humidity (63.1%) above and below the climatologic normal (24.9°C and 75.0%, respectively) were also registered; this can be explained by the effect of La Niña phenomenon during the period (NOAA, 2016NOAA. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Historical El Niño/ La Niña episodes: cold & warm episodes by season. Available at: <Available at: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ensoyears_1971-2000_climo.shtml >. Accessed on: Jan. 21 2016.
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). The 2014/2015 growing season had intermediate conditions, with 300 mm rainfall during the vegetative phase, which is above the climatologic normal, and 120 mm during the reproductive phase, which is below the historical monthly mean (Wrege et al., 2011WREGE, M.S.; STEINMETZ, S.; REISSER JÚNIOR, C.; DE ALMEIDA, I.R. Atlas climático da Região Sul do Brasil: estados do Paraná, Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul. Pelotas: Embrapa Clima Temperado; Colombo: Embrapa Florestas, 2011. 336p.).

Figure 1.
Rainfall and irrigation for 100% water depth of the crop evapotranspiration (ETc), during the developmental cycle of sprinkler-irrigated lowland rice in three growing seasons: A, 2010/2011; B, 2011/2012; and C, 2014/2015. Dashed lines correspond to the average dates of occurrence of panicle differentiation (R1), anthesis (R4), and physiological maturity (R9) for lowland rice cultivars using a water depth of 100% ETc.

Figure 2.
Air temperature (A) and relative air humidity (B) during the vegetative (EM-R1), reproductive (R1-R4), and grain-filling (R4-R9) development phases, and during the total developmental cycle (EM-R9) of lowland rice (Oryza sativa) in the 2010/2011, 2011/2012, and 2014/2015 growing seasons, in the municipality of Itaqui, RS, Brazil. Bars represent the standard deviation of the mean.

A tendency of reducing CV values was observed with water increasing availability, and with the use of three cardinal temperatures for calculating thermal time (Table 2). These results agree with those found by Rosa et al. (2009)ROSA, H.T.; WALTER, L.C.; STRECK, N.A.; ALBERTO, C.M. Métodos de soma térmica e datas de semeadura na determinação de filocrono de cultivares de trigo. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v.44, p.1374-1382, 2009. DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009001100002.
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in a study on wheat cultivars. These authors reported that the standard deviation of values obtained by methods with three cardinal temperatures is lower than that obtained with other methods, since the former better represents the interaction between plant development and air temperature.

Table 2
Coefficients of variation for the accumulated thermal time (TTa, °C day) during the vegetative (EM-R1), reproductive (R1-R4), and grain-filling (R4-R9) developmental phases, and total developmental cycle (EM-R9) of sprinkler-irrigated lowland rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars with different water depths and methods (1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, and 3.2) for TTa calculation.

In the three evaluated growing seasons, a tendency of a reduced development cycle was observed as the water availability increased (Figure 3), but with a considerably value variability among years. By using the method 1.1, thermal time of the entire plant cycle (EM-R9), at a water depth of 100% ETc, ranged from 1,696.2 to 2,000.8°C day. In addition, in the three growing seasons, plants with water depths of 0 and 50% ETc senesced before completing the reproductive and grain-filling stages, respectively.

Figure 3:
Accumulated thermal time (TTa) during the vegetative (EM-R1), reproductive (R1-R4), and grain-filling (R4-R9) developmental phases of lowland rice (Oryza sativa) irrigated by sprinkling water depths of 0, 50, 100, 150, and 200% of the crop evapotranspiration (ETc), calculated by six methods: A, 1.1; B, 1.2; C, 2.1; D, 2.2; E, 3.1; and F, 3.2. Data are from three growing seasons: 1, 2010/2011; 2, 2011/2012; and 3, 2014/2015. Means with lowercase letters compare values of each method, for each developmental phase, for the different irrigation water depths used during the 2014/2015 growing season. Means with equal letters do not differ from each other by the Tukey’s test, at 5% probability.

In the 2014/2015 growing season, irrigation water depths affected the TTa values of vegetative and reproductive phases (Figure 3). For the vegetative phase (EM-R1), a difference of 30°C day was observed between values obtained with the water depths of 0 and 200% ETc for all TTa methods. Boonjung & Fukai (1996)BOONJUNG, H.; FUKAI, S. Effects of soil water deficit at different growth stages on rice growth and yield under upland conditions. 2. Phenology, biomass production and yield. Field Crops Research, v.48, p.47-55, 1996. DOI: 10.1016/0378-4290(96)00039-1.
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stated that the vegetative phase duration depends on the intensity and duration of water restriction for rice. Despite the high precipitation observed over the period (Figure 1 C), data found in the present work corroborate those found by Boonjung & Fukai (1996)BOONJUNG, H.; FUKAI, S. Effects of soil water deficit at different growth stages on rice growth and yield under upland conditions. 2. Phenology, biomass production and yield. Field Crops Research, v.48, p.47-55, 1996. DOI: 10.1016/0378-4290(96)00039-1.
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and Farooq et al. (2009)FAROOQ, M.; WAHID, A.; KOBAYASHI, N.; FUJITA, D.; BASRA, S.M.A. Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, v.29, p.185-212, 2009. DOI: 10.1051/agro:2008021.
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, who stated that a reduction of water availability reduces the development rate, which results in a longer duration of the vegetative phase.

As rice plants subjeted to dry conditions (0% ETc) did not complete the reproductive phase (R1-R4) in the 2014/2015 growing season, the statistical analysis was performed only with water depths from 50 to 200% ETc. The difference between them was 42.8°C day more for TTa at the R1-R4 phase, in the comparison between the water depth of 50% ETc and that of 200% ETc. This difference may be related to canopy temperature, as water deficit causes its rise, which reduces the photosynthetic capacity and transpiration rate of plants (Yan et al., 2012YAN, C.; CHEN, H.; FAN, T.; HUANG, Y.; YU, S.; CHEN, S.; HONG, X. Rice flag leaf physiology, organ and canopy temperature in response to water stress. Plant Production Science, v.15, p.92-99, 2012. DOI: 10.1626/pps.15.92.
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), reflecting on the duration of the phenological phases.

For the grain-filling phase (R4-R9), in the 2014/2015 growing season, no significant difference was observed in TTa values, considering the different irrigation water depths, regardless of method employed for the thermal time calculation. In a study with upland rice cultivars, with different water availability, Lilley & Fukai (1994)LILLEY, J.M.; FUKAI, S. Effect of timing and severity of water deficit on four diverse rice cultivars III. Phenological development, crop growth and grain yield. Field Crops Research, v.37, p.225-234, 1994. DOI: 10.1016/0378-4290(94)90101-5.
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also observed that the duration of the R4-R9 phase responded little to water availability.

Values of the coefficient of variation for the different groups of cultivars (Table 2) were similar between methods for each developmental phase. However, in general, the lowest values were obtained using the method 3.1. Streck et al. (2007a)STRECK, N.A.; MICHELON, S.; BOSCO, L.C.; LAGO, I.; WALTER, L.C.; ROSA, H.T.; DE PAULA, G.M. de. Soma térmica de algumas fases do ciclo de desenvolvimento da escala de COUNCE para cultivares sul-brasileiras de arroz irrigado. Bragantia, v.66, p.357-364, 2007a. DOI: 10.1590/S0006-87052007000200020.
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calculated the thermal time by using this method, and observed a TTa variation of approximately 100°C day for the duration of the entire cycle (EM-R9) of irrigated rice. In the present study, this variation was 269.1°C day. The difference between these results may be attributed to the cultivation under sprinkler irrigation, in the present work.

In the 2014/2015 growing season, a significant difference was observed for TTa values in the vegetative and reproductive phases for all calculation methods. For the grain-filling phase, difference was observed for the methods 2.1, 3.1, and 3.2 (Figure 4). The difference for the vegetative phase (EM-R1) is due to the genetic characteristics of cultivars. According to Lago et al. (2009)LAGO, I.; STRECK, N.A.; CARVALHO, M.P.; FAGUNDES, L.K.; PAULA, G.M. de; LOPES, S.J. Estimativa da temperatura base do subperíodo emergência - diferenciação da panícula em arroz cultivado e arroz vermelho. Revista Ceres, v.56, p.288-295, 2009., cultivars from hybridization show a lower minimum temperature (8.0ºC) than the other cultivars (9.3ºC). Therefore, a greater thermal accumulation can be observed, even if these cultivars are classified as medium-cycle ones.

Figure 4:
Accumulated thermal time (TTa) during the vegetative (EM-R1), reproductive (R1-R4), and grain-filling (R4-R9) developmental phases of lowland rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars. The medium-cycle cultivars (CCM) IRGA 428 and IRGA 417, long-cycle cultivars (CCL) IRGA 429 and IRGA 424, and hybrid cultivars (HIB) XP 102 CL and Inov CL were irrigated by sprinkler, and the means were calculated by using six methods: A, 1.1; B, 1.2; C, 2.1; D, 2.2; E, 3.1; and F, 3.2. Data are from three growing seasons: 1, 2010/2011; 2, 2011/2012; and 3, 2014/2015. Means with lowercase letters compare values of each method, for each developmental phase, for the cultivars evaluated during the 2014/2015 growing season. Means with equal letters do not differ from each other by the Tukey’s test, at 5% probability.

For the reproductive phase (R1-R4), the cultivar IRGA 429 showed the highest TTa values (415.2 to 613.8°C day). In a study with lowland rice cultivars, Freitas et al. (2006)FREITAS, T.F.S. de; SILVA, P.R.F. da; STRIEDER, M.L.; SILVA, A.A. da. Validação de escala de desenvolvimento para cultivares brasileiras de arroz irrigado. Ciência Rural, v.36, p.404-410, 2006. DOI: 10.1590/S0103-84782006000200008.
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observed a variation in the duration of developmental phases according to the cultivar cycle. IRGA 429, classified as a long-cycle cultivar, showed a higher TTa in this period than the other cultivars of medium cycle (IRGA 428 and XP 102 CL).

In the grain-filling phase (R4-R9), the methods 2.1, 3.1, and 3.2 differed significantly according to cultivar cycle, with higher values of TTa for the cultivars with long cycle (IRGA 429), and lower values for medium-cycle cultivars (IRGA 428 and XP 102 CL). Probably the methods that use only one cardinal temperature (Tb) cannot differentiate the cycle duration of cultivars in short periods, such as that at R4-R9 stage. This probably hides differences in the developmental cycle duration, identified by methods that consider more than one cardinal temperature (Tb, Topt, and TB).

When the entire developmental cycle (EM-R9) was considered, in the three growing seasons, the TTa values obtained with the method 3.1 ranged from 1,245.3 to 1,669.8°C day. Using the same method, Streck et al. (2007a)STRECK, N.A.; MICHELON, S.; BOSCO, L.C.; LAGO, I.; WALTER, L.C.; ROSA, H.T.; DE PAULA, G.M. de. Soma térmica de algumas fases do ciclo de desenvolvimento da escala de COUNCE para cultivares sul-brasileiras de arroz irrigado. Bragantia, v.66, p.357-364, 2007a. DOI: 10.1590/S0006-87052007000200020.
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found that medium- and long-cycle lowland rice cultivars required 1,750 to 2,100°C day to complete the EM-R9 cycle. Therefore, the sprinkler irrigation system provided lower TTa values than those found in flooded systems by these authors. This difference can be explained by the presence of water above the soil in the flood irrigation system, which can reduce the thermal amplitude in the canopy. Thus, as a consequence of the absence of this excess of water in the sprinkler irrigation system, temperatures can reach higher values and lead to higher rates of development. Besides, the study of Streck et al. (2007a)STRECK, N.A.; MICHELON, S.; BOSCO, L.C.; LAGO, I.; WALTER, L.C.; ROSA, H.T.; DE PAULA, G.M. de. Soma térmica de algumas fases do ciclo de desenvolvimento da escala de COUNCE para cultivares sul-brasileiras de arroz irrigado. Bragantia, v.66, p.357-364, 2007a. DOI: 10.1590/S0006-87052007000200020.
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was carried out using different sowing dates, with higher TTa values at earlier sowings, which may also have contributed to the differences between values in the two studies.

In the three growing seasons, for the different irrigation water depths and rice cultivars, TTa values were higher with the use of methods 1.1 and 1.2, intermediate with methods 2.1 and 2.2, and lower with the methods 3.1 and 3.2. According to Rosa et al. (2009)ROSA, H.T.; WALTER, L.C.; STRECK, N.A.; ALBERTO, C.M. Métodos de soma térmica e datas de semeadura na determinação de filocrono de cultivares de trigo. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, v.44, p.1374-1382, 2009. DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009001100002.
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, this occurs when the mean daily temperature is above the optimum temperature for plants.

In general, values of coefficients of variation for the complete crop developmental cycle were low in methods that consider the three cardinal temperatures. However, analyzing the values at each phase separately allows the identification of high values, which affects the accuracy on the determination of the duration of each development phase. This is probably due to the water availability at these stages. However, for this possibility to be evaluated, it is necessary to adapt and calibrate the linear and nonlinear development models, in order to improve the precision of the duration estimate of developmental stages under sprinkler irrigation.

Conclusions

  1. The use of different methods provide different values of thermal time, considering the same development stages of sprinkler-irrigated lowland rice (Oryza sativa); and methods that consider more than one cardinal temperature show less variation between growing seasons.

  2. The lower the water depth provided by sprinkler irrigation, the longer the lowland rice cycle.

Acknowledgments

To Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Rio Grande do Sul (Fapergs), and to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), for financial support.

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Publication Dates

  • Publication in this collection
    July 2017

History

  • Received
    29 Apr 2016
  • Accepted
    17 Nov 2016
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