1. Concurrent elevation of CO2, O3and temperature severely affects oil quality and quantity in rapeseed
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Cathrine Heinz Ingvordsen, Rikke Bagger Jørgensen, Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen, Shahla Namazkar, Georg Frenck, Anders Stockmarr, Helge Egsgaard, and Thilde Terkelsen
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0106 biological sciences ,Hot Temperature ,Rapeseed ,oilseed rape ,Physiology ,Climate Change ,Climate change ,Biomass ,Brassica napus L ,Plant Science ,vegetable oil quality ,01 natural sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Ozone ,Animal science ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,greenhouse gases ,SDG 13 - Climate Action ,Plant Oils ,Cultivar ,Hectare ,model ,Brassica rapa ,Fatty Acids ,Vegetable oil quality ,food and beverages ,multifactor experiment ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,Carbon Dioxide ,Greenhouse gases ,Human nutrition ,chemistry ,Agronomy ,Greenhouse gas ,Carbon dioxide ,040103 agronomy & agriculture ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,Rapeseed Oil ,Multifactor experiments ,Oilseed rape ,Research Paper ,Model ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Highlights Oil quality in four rapeseed cultivars was severely impaired in a climate with simultaneous elevation of temperature, [CO2] and [O3]. The effects were unforeseeable from single factor experiments., Plant oil is an essential dietary and bio-energy resource. Despite this, the effects of climate change on plant oil quality remain to be elucidated. The present study is the first to show changes in oil quality and quantity of four rapeseed cultivars in climate scenarios with elevated [CO2], [O3] and temperature (T) combined and as single factors. The combination of environmental factors resembled IPCC’s ‘business as usual’ emission scenario predicted for late this century. Generally, the climate scenarios reduced the average amounts of the six fatty acids (FAs) analysed, though in some treatments single FAs remained unchanged or even increased. Most reduced was the FA essential for human nutrition, C18:3-ω3, which decreased by 39% and 45% in the combined scenarios with elevated [CO2]+T+[O3] and [CO2]+T, respectively. Average oil content decreased 3–17%. When [CO2] and T were elevated concurrently, the seed biomass was reduced by half, doubling the losses in FAs and oil content. This corresponded to a 58% reduction in the oil yield per hectare, and C18:3-ω3 decreased by 77%. Furthermore, the polyunsaturated FAs were significantly decreased. The results indicate undesirable consequences for production and health benefits of rapeseed oil with future climate change. The results also showed strong interactive effects of CO2, T and O3 on oil quality, demonstrating why prediction of climate effects requires experiments with combined factors and should not be based on extrapolation from single factor experiments.
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- 2016