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Journal Articles Journal of Experimental Botany Year : 2024

Source-sink relationships during grain filling in wheat in response to various temperature, water deficit and nitrogen deficit regimes

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Grain filling is a critical process for improving crop production under adverse conditions caused by climate change. Here, using a quantitative method, we quantified post-anthesis source-sink relationships of a large data set to assess the contribution of remobilized pre-anthesis assimilates to grain growth for both biomass and nitrogen. The data set came from 13 years’ semi-controlled field experimentation, in which six bread wheat genotypes were grown at plot scale under contrasting temperature, water, and nitrogen regimes. On average, grain biomass was ~10% higher than post-anthesis aboveground biomass accumulation across regimes and genotypes. Overall, the estimated relative contribution (%) of remobilized assimilates to grain biomass became increasingly significant with increasing stress intensity, ranging from virtually nil to 100%. This percentage was altered more by water and nitrogen regimes than by temperature, indicating the greater impact of water or nitrogen regimes relative to high temperatures under our experimental conditions. Relationships between grain nitrogen demand and post-anthesis nitrogen uptake were generally insensitive to environmental conditions, as there was always significant remobilization of nitrogen from vegetative organs, which helped to stabilize the amount of grain nitrogen. Moreover, variations in the relative contribution of remobilized assimilates with environmental variables were genotype-dependent. Our analysis provides an overall picture of post-anthesis source-sink relationships and pre-anthesis assimilate contributions to grain filling across (non-)environmental factors, and highlights that designing wheat adaption to climate change should account for complex multi-factor interactions.
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hal-04659404 , version 1 (23-07-2024)

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Liang Fang, Paul C Struik, Christine Girousse, Xinyou Yin, Pierre Martre. Source-sink relationships during grain filling in wheat in response to various temperature, water deficit and nitrogen deficit regimes. Journal of Experimental Botany, In press, pp.erae310. ⟨10.1093/jxb/erae310/7716145⟩. ⟨hal-04659404⟩
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