Temporal and spatial arrangement of wheat sowing date: a revolutionary strategy to accomplish Tianfu Granary

Feiquan Tan; Yulian Hou; Xinyu Huang; Jia Jia; Huai Yang; Peigao Luo

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1240417

Temporal and spatial arrangement of wheat sowing date: a revolutionary strategy to accomplish Tianfu Granary

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Nov 20:14:1240417. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1240417. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Feiquan Tan^#¹, Yulian Hou^#¹, Xinyu Huang¹, Jia Jia¹, Huai Yang^{1

2}, Peigao Luo¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Breeding at Sichuan Agricultural University of Sichuan Province, Agricultural College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China.
² Sichuan Long-Gao-Fei Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Chengdu, China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Rapidly global urbanization and economic growth in the past several decades have resulted in a sharp contraction of arable areas worldwide. However, food supply requirements are quickly increasing due to higher living standards and larger populations. Therefore, food crises are still a major threat to human society. The conflict between farmland areas and the increasing need for essential supplies is becoming acuter in China. Therefore, we suggest that a novel strategy would address the issue, in which temporal and spatial arrangement of wheat sowing dates would be highly focused.

Keywords: Tianfu Granary; crop cultivation; rice-wheat cropping; sowing date; wheat; yield.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program [grant number 2022ZDZX0016, 2021YFYZ0002, 2022ZDZX0014, 2022ZDZX0016 and 2023YF0900087SN].