Review on Climate Control Chamber studies in studying plant environment interaction under climate change scenarios

Abstract

This Technical brief summarizes some of the studies conducted on rice using a climate control chamber and outlines the studies that will be undertaken in the Climate Control Chamber facility that has been established at the Agro Climate Research Center at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. In recent years a numbers of technologies have been developed to study the impact of climate change on agricultural systems. Crop response to climate change could be studied by using a climate control chamber and data base generated using these facilities will be more realistic for impact assessment analysis under changing climatic conditions. Most of the research on plant response to climate change have been studies conducted under a controlled environment. Controlled climatic condition technologies have been successfully applied to study the response of plant to increasing temperature, green house gases and light quality variation.