Table 5.
The percentage increase of the 31 year average aboveground mass by nine photosynthesis-enhancing routes, relative to that shown in Table 4 for the default route, in rice crop simulated for the present climate and the 2050 climate, under either potential or water stress environments, in three representative sites
| Site | Los Baños (tropics) | Nanjing (subtropics) | Shizukuishi (temperate) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production level | Potential | Water limited | Potential | Water limited | Potential | Water limited | |||||||
| Climate | Present | 2050 | Present | 2050 | Present | 2050 | Present | 2050 | Present | 2050 | Present | 2050 | |
| Routea | 1 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 2.7 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
| 2 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 6.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 | 11.7 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 8.1 | 11.0 | 9.2 | |
| 3 | 12.9 | 9.9 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 14.0 | 10.8 | 16.8 | 13.8 | 13.5 | 10.2 | 15.5 | 14.0 | |
| 4 | 10.4 | 4.1 | 12.4 | 6.4 | 8.0 | 3.9 | 11.8 | 6.2 | 14.8 | 8.3 | 19.2 | 10.4 | |
| 5 | 7.6 | –0.8 | 26.6 | 13.6 | 5.0 | –2.4 | 24.5 | 11.6 | 7.0 | –0.7 | 26.6 | 14.9 | |
| 6 | 38.0 | 23.1 | 51.2 | 33.8 | 33.0 | 21.9 | 50.5 | 34.1 | 39.8 | 25.4 | 54.5 | 36.0 | |
| 7 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 9.1 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 0.8 | 10.6 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 11.3 | 7.7 | |
| 8 | 17.9 | 10.5 | 39.7 | 28.7 | 18.1 | 10.7 | 39.9 | 27.9 | 19.1 | 11.3 | 38.7 | 28.1 | |
| 9 | 70.1 | 57.5 | 78.5 | 61.2 | 63.2 | 51.3 | 74.8 | 57.9 | 60.8 | 49.0 | 73.8 | 57.4 | |
a Route numbers correspond to those defined in Table 2.