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Simulation And Response Surface Methodology To Optimize Winter Wheat Response To Global Climate Change, P. Dhungana, K. M. Eskridge, A. Weiss, P. S. Baenziger

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

Future climate changes can have a major impact on crop production. But, whatever the climatic changes, crop production can be adapted to climate change by implementing alternative management practices and developing new genotypes that will take full advantage of the future climatic conditions. Since the classical agronomic research approach is not possible in identifying these new agronomic technologies for the future climatic conditions, we used response surface methodology (RSM) in connection with the CERES-Wheat crop model and the HADCM2 climate simulation model to identify optimal configuration of plant traits and management practices that maximize yield of winter wheat under high …