On the Possible Trade-Off between Shoot and Root Biomass in Wheat
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. Combined Data Analysis
2.2. Trade-Off Pot Experiments
2.3. Trade-Off Tube Experiments
3. Discussion
3.1. Genetic Variation for Root Biomass
3.2. Trade-Offs in Root and Shoot Biomass
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Plant Material
4.2. Experimental Design for Combined Data
4.3. Experimental Design for Trade-off Study
4.4. Growth Conditions and Irrigation Regimes on Trade-off Experiments
4.5. Statistical Analysis
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Mapping Populations | Data from Diverse Sets of Lines | Trade-Off Experiments | |||||||
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Population Name | Sonora × Foisy (SF) | Sonora × CBdeM (SC) | Chiddam Blanc de Mars (CBdeM) × Foisy (CF) | Synthetic W7984 × Opata M85 (SynOpDH) | Wheat Wild Relatives | Historical CIMMYT Accessions | Turkish Wheat Accessions | 1RS.1BL Translocation and 1B Substitution Lines | Pavon 76 and Yecora Rojo |
Number of Accessions evaluated | 141 | 146 | 128 | 147 | 15 | 9 | 19 | 32 | 2 |
Growth conditions | PVC tubes and 3.8 l pots | PVC tubes | PVC tubes | PVC tubes and 3.8 l pots | |||||
Growth duration | 21–28 days in 2014–2015; 30–60 days in 2013; 40 days in 2016 | Maturity in 2012–2014 | 40–70 days between 2012–2015 | Maturity in 2015–2016 | |||||
Reference | [55,57] | [13,14,52,53,54] | [55,56] |
Trait | Duration/Growth Stage | N | Mean (g) | SD | SE Mean | C.V. | Minimum (g) | Median (g) | Maximum (g) |
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Shoot Biomass | 21–28 | 3768 | 0.81 | 0.51 | 0.01 | 62.47 | 0.05 | 0.66 | 3.00 |
40–70 | 1342 | 10.98 | 9.68 | 0.27 | 88.19 | 1.54 | 8.78 | 70.19 | |
Maturity | 1243 | 46.33 | 22.43 | 0.61 | 48.41 | 0.36 | 44.07 | 117.11 | |
Root Biomass | 21–28 | 3768 | 0.30 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 73.50 | 0.01 | 0.26 | 2.29 |
40–70 | 1342 | 2.14 | 1.27 | 0.04 | 59.38 | 0.27 | 1.88 | 12.49 | |
Maturity | 1243 | 4.76 | 2.98 | 0.08 | 62.54 | 0.15 | 3.96 | 17.68 |
Tubes | Pots | |||||
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Pavon 76 | Treatment | RM/SM | RM < 30/RM > 30 | RM < 30/SM | Treatment | RM/SM |
Control | 0.26 | 1.11 | 0.14 | Control | 0.20 | |
Deep | 0.49 | 0.50 | 0.16 | Anthesis | 0.40 | |
Shallow | 0.22 | 3.15 | 0.16 | Heading | 0.43 | |
Booting | 0.30 | |||||
Yecora Rojo | Treatment | RM/SM | RM < 30/RM > 30 | RM < 30/SM | Treatment | RM/SM |
Control | 0.86 | 0.41 | 0.25 | Control | 0.55 | |
Deep | 0.87 | 0.54 | 0.30 | Anthesis | 0.55 | |
Shallow | 0.39 | 8.54 | 0.35 | Heading | 0.44 | |
Booting | 0.45 |
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Bektas, H.; Hohn, C.E.; Lukaszewski, A.J.; Waines, J.G. On the Possible Trade-Off between Shoot and Root Biomass in Wheat. Plants 2023, 12, 2513. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132513
Bektas H, Hohn CE, Lukaszewski AJ, Waines JG. On the Possible Trade-Off between Shoot and Root Biomass in Wheat. Plants. 2023; 12(13):2513. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132513
Chicago/Turabian StyleBektas, Harun, Christopher E. Hohn, Adam J. Lukaszewski, and John Giles Waines. 2023. "On the Possible Trade-Off between Shoot and Root Biomass in Wheat" Plants 12, no. 13: 2513. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12132513