Winter Wheat Photosynthesis and Grain Yield Responses to Spring Freeze
Winter Wheat Photosynthesis and Grain Yield Responses to Spring Freeze
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冬小麦光合作用和籽粒产量对春季冰冻的响应
DOI:
10.2134/agronj14.0460
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发表时间:
2015-05-01
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影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Jiang, Dong
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作者:
Li, Xiangnan;Pu, Hanchun;Jiang, Dong
Spring freeze events seriously limit the growth, development, and grain yield of winter wheat (Triticum aestivoin L.). A 2-yr field experiment with two contrasting cultivars: XM21 (low-temperature resistant) and XZ,24 (low-temperature sensitive), was conducted using an air temperature control device designed to allow investigation of the physiological and grain yield responses to spring freeze. The plants were grown in the field and subjected to a 5-d spring freeze episode (approximately 8 degrees C lower than the ambient temperature) at jointing stage (Zadoks scale 31). Spring freeze significantly decreased gas exchange rates and maximum quantum efficiency of photosystem II in wheat leaves of both cultivars. Under spring freeze, the yield loss was 12 to 14% in XZ24 vs. 5 to 6% in XM21. Greater yield loss in XZ24 coincided with a greater reduction of tiller and spike number in XZ24 than in XM21. Spring freeze occurring at jointing stage depressed the photosynthetic capacity of the leaves when measured at the end of the 5-d period and again at 7 d later, resulting in lowered number of effective tillers, and eventually decreasing the grain yield. The genetic and/or bio-physiochemical basis for the different sensitivity of tiller development to spring freeze between the two cultivars could be further exploited for breeding new wheat cultivars tolerant to spring freeze stress.