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- Title
Limited Nitrogen and Plant Growth Stages Discriminate Well Nitrogen Use, Uptake and Utilization Efficiency in Popcorn.
- Authors
Khan, Shahid; Amaral Júnior, Antônio Teixeira do; Ferreira, Fernando Rafael Alves; Kamphorst, Samuel Henrique; Gonçalves, Gabriel Moreno Bernardo; Simone Mendonça Freitas, Marta; Silveira, Vanildo; Apolinário de Souza Filho, Gonçalo; Francisco Teixeira do Amaral, José; Enrique Bresssan Smith, Ricardo; Hussain Khalil, Iftikhar; Maganha Silva Vivas, Janieli; Pequeno de Souza, Yure; Alves Peçanha, Diego
- Abstract
The extensive use of nitrogen (N) in agriculture has caused negative impacts on the environment and costs. In this context, two pot experiments were performed under different N levels and harvested at different vegetative stages to assess two popcorn inbred lines (P2 and L80) and their hybrid (F1 = P2 × L80) for the N use, uptake and utilization efficiency (with the inclusion and exclusion of root N content); to find the contrasting N levels and vegetative stages that effect nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and to understand the relationship between the traits related to NUE. The hybrid and P2 were confirmed better than L80 for all the studied traits. NUE is mainly affected by the shoot dry weight, uptake and utilization efficiency. Extremely low and high N levels were found to be more discriminating for N use and dry weight, respectively. At the V6 (six fully expanded leaf) stage, root N content (RNC) should be considered; in contrast, at the VT (tasseling stage) stage, RNC should not be considered for the uptake and utilization efficiency. The genetic parameter performance for N use, uptake, shoot dry weight and N content could favor the achievement of the genetic gain in advanced segregating generations.
- Subjects
REPUBLICAN National Committee (U.S.); PLANT growth; POPCORN; NITROGEN; HETEROSIS in plants
- Publication
Plants (2223-7747), 2020, Vol 9, Issue 7, p893
- ISSN
2223-7747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/plants9070893