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Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears
The border row crop in strip intercropped maize is often exposed to heterogeneous light conditions, resulting in increased photosynthesis and yield decreased. Previous studies have focused on photosynthetic productivity, whereas carbon allocation could also be one of the major causes of decreased yi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32759776 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9080987 |
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author | Chen, Guopeng Chen, Hong Shi, Kai Raza, Muhammad Ali Bawa, George Sun, Xin Pu, Tian Yong, Taiwen Liu, Weiguo Liu, Jiang Du, Junbo Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu Wang, Xiaochun |
author_facet | Chen, Guopeng Chen, Hong Shi, Kai Raza, Muhammad Ali Bawa, George Sun, Xin Pu, Tian Yong, Taiwen Liu, Weiguo Liu, Jiang Du, Junbo Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu Wang, Xiaochun |
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description | The border row crop in strip intercropped maize is often exposed to heterogeneous light conditions, resulting in increased photosynthesis and yield decreased. Previous studies have focused on photosynthetic productivity, whereas carbon allocation could also be one of the major causes of decreased yield. However, carbon distribution remains unclear in partially shaded conditions. In the present study, we applied heterogeneous light conditions (T), and one side of plants was shaded (T-30%), keeping the other side fully exposed to light (T-100%), as compared to control plants that were exposed entirely to full-light (CK). Dry weight, carbon assimilation, (13)C abundance, and transport tissue structure were analyzed to clarify the carbon distribution in partial shading of plants. T caused a marked decline in dry weight and harvest index (HI), whereas dry weight in unshaded and shaded leaves did not differ. Net photosynthesis rate (Pn), the activity of sucrose phosphate synthase enzymes (SPS), and sucrose concentration increased in unshaded leaves. Appropriately, 5.7% of the (13)C from unshaded leaves was transferred to shaded leaves. Furthermore, plasmodesma density in the unshaded (T-100%) and shaded (T-30%) leaves in T was not significantly different but was lower than that of CK. Similarly, the vascular bundle total area of T was decreased. (13)C transfer from unshaded leaves to ear in T was decreased by 18.0% compared with that in CK. Moreover, (13)C and sucrose concentration of stem in T were higher than those in CK. Our results suggested that, under heterogeneous light, shaded leaves as a sink imported the carbohydrates from the unshaded leaves. Ear and shaded leaf competed for carbohydrates, and were not conducive to tissue structure of sucrose transport, resulting in a decrease in the carbon proportion in the ear, harvest index, and ear weight. |
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spelling | pubmed-74656442020-09-04 Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears Chen, Guopeng Chen, Hong Shi, Kai Raza, Muhammad Ali Bawa, George Sun, Xin Pu, Tian Yong, Taiwen Liu, Weiguo Liu, Jiang Du, Junbo Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu Wang, Xiaochun Plants (Basel) Article The border row crop in strip intercropped maize is often exposed to heterogeneous light conditions, resulting in increased photosynthesis and yield decreased. Previous studies have focused on photosynthetic productivity, whereas carbon allocation could also be one of the major causes of decreased yield. However, carbon distribution remains unclear in partially shaded conditions. In the present study, we applied heterogeneous light conditions (T), and one side of plants was shaded (T-30%), keeping the other side fully exposed to light (T-100%), as compared to control plants that were exposed entirely to full-light (CK). Dry weight, carbon assimilation, (13)C abundance, and transport tissue structure were analyzed to clarify the carbon distribution in partial shading of plants. T caused a marked decline in dry weight and harvest index (HI), whereas dry weight in unshaded and shaded leaves did not differ. Net photosynthesis rate (Pn), the activity of sucrose phosphate synthase enzymes (SPS), and sucrose concentration increased in unshaded leaves. Appropriately, 5.7% of the (13)C from unshaded leaves was transferred to shaded leaves. Furthermore, plasmodesma density in the unshaded (T-100%) and shaded (T-30%) leaves in T was not significantly different but was lower than that of CK. Similarly, the vascular bundle total area of T was decreased. (13)C transfer from unshaded leaves to ear in T was decreased by 18.0% compared with that in CK. Moreover, (13)C and sucrose concentration of stem in T were higher than those in CK. Our results suggested that, under heterogeneous light, shaded leaves as a sink imported the carbohydrates from the unshaded leaves. Ear and shaded leaf competed for carbohydrates, and were not conducive to tissue structure of sucrose transport, resulting in a decrease in the carbon proportion in the ear, harvest index, and ear weight. MDPI 2020-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7465644/ /pubmed/32759776 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9080987 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Chen, Guopeng Chen, Hong Shi, Kai Raza, Muhammad Ali Bawa, George Sun, Xin Pu, Tian Yong, Taiwen Liu, Weiguo Liu, Jiang Du, Junbo Yang, Feng Yang, Wenyu Wang, Xiaochun Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears |
title | Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears |
title_full | Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears |
title_fullStr | Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears |
title_full_unstemmed | Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears |
title_short | Heterogeneous Light Conditions Reduce the Assimilate Translocation Towards Maize Ears |
title_sort | heterogeneous light conditions reduce the assimilate translocation towards maize ears |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32759776 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9080987 |
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