FIGURE 3.
Effects of heat priming and post-anthesis heat stress on the net photosynthetic rate (Pn) in leaves of Yangmai 18 (A–D) and Yannong 19 (E–H) at the end of the heat-priming and grain-filling stages from 2016 to 2017. PS, PB, and PA refer to 5 days of heat priming at the stem-elongation, booting and anthesis and stages, respectively. NN refers to no heat priming + no heat stress at the grain-filling stage (control); NH refers to no heat priming + heat stress at the grain-filling stage; PSH refers to heat priming at the stem-elongation stage + heat stress at the grain-filling stage; PBH refers to heat priming at booting + heat stress at the grain-filling stage; PAH refers to heat priming at anthesis + heat stress at the grain-filling stage. The data are means ± SE (n = 3). Lowercase letters refer to significant differences between the treatments (P < 0.05). Whiskers above the bars indicate the standard error.