1 Agroclimatology, INIFAP, Norman E. Borlaug Experimental Station, Postal Box 155, km 12 Norman E. Borlaug between 800 and 900 Valle del Yaqui, Cd. Obregón, Sonora, México.
2 Wheat Pathology, INIFAP, Norman E. Borlaug Experimental Station, Postal Box 155, km 12 Norman E. Borlaug between 800 and 900 Valle del Yaqui, Cd. Obregón, Sonora, México.
3 Water use and Management, INIFAP, Norman E. Borlaug Experimental Station, Postal Box 155, km 12 Norman E. Borlaug between 800 and 900 Valle del Yaqui, Cd. Obregón, Sonora, México.
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World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 24(02), 1514-1524
Received on 30 September 2024; revised on 13 November 2024; accepted on 15 November 2024
This work aimed to analyze the variation in temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH) in wheat seasons 2004-05 to 2023-24, and its impact with sowing dates on grain yield in southern Sonora, Mexico. The T and HR were recorded in hourly format from the meteorological stations in the region during November to April. Commercial fields were selected based on territorial distribution in the Yaqui (YV) and Mayo (MV) Valleys, covering sowing dates from November 1 to January 15, and grain yield was determined based on a 1 m 2 sample with six replications in each field. The daytime T in both valleys had a positive trend, in the YV it increased between 1.4 and 2.9 °C, while in the MV between 1.8 and 3.5 °C. The night T had mostly a negative trend in both valleys, the MV had a tendency with 1.6 °C less and the YV with 1 °C. RH during the day showed a decreasing tendency throughout most of the season in both valleys, in the YV the decrease ranged from -2.6 to 0.9 %, and from -4.9 to -2.5 % in the MV. Nighttime humidity had an increase tendency in the YV with a range of 1.1 to 8.0 %, whereas in the MV, it showed a tendency to decrease in November, January, February, and March. The night temperature was negatively correlated with grain yield in both valleys, while relative humidity was not. The grain yields (above 9.5 t ha -1 ) were obtained in wheat seasons characterized with more than 670 cold units, and grain yield over 6.5 t ha-1 was obtained highest in sowing dates from November 21 to December 20.
Wheat; Triticum sp.; Climate change; Sowing date; risk
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Pedro Félix-Valencia, María Monserrat Torres-Cruz, Guillermo Fuentes-Dávila and José Eliseo Ortiz-Enríquez. Impact of temperature and relative humidity on sowing date and commercial grain yield of wheat in southern Sonora, Mexico. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 24(2), 1514-1524. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2024.24.2.3474