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Nehe A, Misra S, Murchie E, Chinnathambi K, Singh Tyagi B, Foulkes M. Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars. Field Crops Res 2020; 251:107778. [PMID: 32549650 PMCID: PMC7182295 DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Nitrogen (N) fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and may also have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching and N2O (a greenhouse gas) emissions associated with denitrification. The objectives of this study were to quantify the genetic variability in N partitioning and N remobilization in Indian spring wheat cultivars and identify traits for improved grain yield and grain protein content for application in breeding N-efficient cultivars. Twenty-eight bread wheat cultivars and two durum wheat cultivars were tested in field experiments in two years in Maharashtra, India. Growth analysis was conducted at anthesis and harvest to assess above-ground dry matter (DM) and dry matter and N partitioning. Flag-leaf photosynthesis rate (A max ), flag-leaf senescence rate and canopy normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) were also assessed. Significant N × genotype level interaction was observed for grain yield and N-use efficiency. There was a positive linear association between post-anthesis flag-leaf A max and grain yield amongst the 30 genotypes under high N (HN) conditions. Flag-leaf A max was positively associated with N uptake at anthesis (AGNA). Under both HN and low N (LN) conditions, higher N uptake at anthesis was associated with delayed onset of flag-leaf senescence and higher grain yield. Under N limitation, there was a genetic negative correlation between grain yield and grain protein concentration. Deviation from this negative relationship (grain protein deviation or GPD) was related to genotypic differences in post-anthesis N uptake. It is concluded that N uptake at anthesis was an important determinant of flag-leaf photosynthesis rate and grain yield under high N conditions; while post-anthesis N uptake was an important determinant of GPD of wheat grown under low to moderate N conditions in India.
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Affiliation(s)
- A.S. Nehe
- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK
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- Genetics and Plant Breeding Department, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, 411 004, Maharashtra, India
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- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK
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- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK
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- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, 132 001, Haryana, India
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- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE12 5RD, UK
- Corresponding author.
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Nehe A, Misra S, Murchie E, Chinnathambi K, Foulkes M. Genetic variation in N-use efficiency and associated traits in Indian wheat cultivars. Field Crops Res 2018; 225:152-162. [PMID: 30078934 PMCID: PMC6065306 DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2018.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Revised: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/03/2018] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Nitrogen (N) fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and may also have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching and N2O (a greenhouse gas) emissions associated with denitrification. The objectives of this study were to quantify the genetic variability in N-use efficiency (NUE) in Indian spring wheat cultivars and identify traits for improved NUE for application in breeding. Twenty eight bread wheat cultivars and two durum wheat cultivars were tested in field experiments in two years in Maharashtra, India. Detailed growth analysis was conducted at anthesis and harvest including dry matter (DM) and N partitioning. Senescence of the flag leaf was assessed from a visual score every 3-4 days from anthesis to complete flag-leaf senescence and fitted against thermal time to estimate the onset and end of post-anthesis senescence. Grain yield (GY) was reduced under low N (LN) by an average of 1.46 t ha-1 (-28%). Significant N × genotype level interaction was observed for grain yield and NUE. Above-ground N uptake at harvest was reduced from 162 kg N ha-1 under high N (HN) to 85 kg N ha-1 under low N (LN) conditions, while N-utilization efficiency (grain DM yield per unit crop N uptake at harvest; NUtE) increased from 32.7 to 44.6 kg DM kg-1 N. Genetic variation in GY under LN related mainly to variation in N uptake at harvest rather than NUtE; and the N × genotype effect for GY was mainly explained by the interaction for N uptake at harvest. Averaging across years, the linear regression of onset of flag-leaf senescence on GY amongst cultivars was significant under both HN (R2 0.16. p < 0.05) and LN (R2 0.21, p < 0.05) conditions. Onset of flag-leaf senescence was positively associated with N uptake at anthesis under HN (R2 0.34, p < 0.001) and LN (R2 0.22, p < 0.01) conditions. Flag-leaf senescence timing was not associated with post-anthesis N uptake. It is concluded that increased N accumulation at anthesis was correlated with flag-leaf senescence timing and that N accumulation at anthesis is an important trait for enhancing grain yield and NUE of wheat grown under low to moderate N supply in India.
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Affiliation(s)
- A.S. Nehe
- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
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- Genetics and Plant Breeding Department, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune 411 004, Maharashtra, India
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- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
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- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
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- Division of Plant and Crop Science, School of Biosciences University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
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