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Characteristics of compound low-temperature and limited-light events in southern China and their effects on greenhouse grown strawberry

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The environmental stress, pests and diseases are frequently occurred during production of facility agriculture in China. Among them, adverse meteorological conditions, such as low temperature and limited light, often co-occurred in greenhouses and brought great losses in southern China. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge about agrometeorological disasters in facility, especially for co-occurred climate extremes. Here, we applied machine learning methods to simulate long-term daily minimum temperature in plastic greenhouses, so as to assess the spatio-temporal characteristics of compound low-temperature and limited-light events (LTLL) in southern China. We took strawberry as the representative horticulture plant to quantitatively investigate the potential effects of the LTLL stress based on experimental data. It was found that when the LTLL stress occurred, strawberry was more sensitive to low-temperature than limited-light and duration. The losses of the fruit soluble solids content caused by LTLL stress were relatively lower than that of yield. The LTLL events mainly occurred from November to March of the following year in southern China. The occurrence frequency had a decreasing trend during 1990–2019 at 3.4 d/10 a, which mainly resulted from its reduction in spring. Assuming that all the LTLL events occurred at strawberry flowering stage, ~ 11.71% of them could result strawberry fruit yield losses over 70%, and the most serious LL events mainly occurred in December and January. The northern part of southern China had a higher LTLL risk. The results have the potential to provide guidance for plastic greenhouse layout and strawberry production.

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    Qi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Qiantong Zheng, Man Yao & Zaiqiang Yang

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Zhang Xinyu, Yang Zaiqiang, Zheng Qiantong, and Yao Man. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Zhang Qi and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Zhang, Q., Zhang, X., Zheng, Q. et al. Characteristics of compound low-temperature and limited-light events in southern China and their effects on greenhouse grown strawberry. Theor Appl Climatol 150, 155–165 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04158-6

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