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- Title
Evolution characteristics related to photosynthesis, growth and yield in some old and new cotton cultivars.
- Authors
Luo, H.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, W.
- Abstract
Changes in photosynthetic attributes related to genetic improvement of cotton yield were studied in seven Chinese cotton cultivars widely grown in Xinjiang during the past 30 years. Our results showed that a chlorophyll (Chl) content and net photosynthetic rate ( P ) of the 1980s cultivar was the highest among all after 60 days from planting (DAP). However, after 75 DAP, the Chl content, P , and actual photochemical efficiency of PSII of the old cultivars declined gradually, whereas those of the new cultivars remained relatively high. Compared to the old cultivars, leaves of the new cultivars endured a longer period and their senescence was slower, shoot and boll dry mass was higher, but the root to shoot ratio was lower. The lint yield of the 2000s cultivars was 14.7 and 21.4% higher than that of 1990s and 1980s cultivars, respectively. The high yield of the new cultivars was attributed to a greater number of bolls per unit of area with high lint percentage. We suggested that the improved photosynthetic capacity and the increased ability to deliver photosynthates to reproductive sites during the peak boll-setting stage to boll-opening stage were the key physiological basis in the evolution process of cotton cultivars from 1980s to 2000s for the cotton yield improvement within a short growing period.
- Subjects
CHLOROPHYLL; DRY matter content of plants; FLUORESCENCE quenching; PHOTOSYNTHESIS genetics; COTTON varieties
- Publication
Photosynthetica, 2017, Vol 55, Issue 2, p301
- ISSN
0300-3604
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11099-016-0223-9