Effects of root pruning on competitive ability and water use efficiency in winter wheat

Field Crops Research

Volumn 105, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 56-63

  Ma, Shou Chen ^a,c,d   Xu, Bing Cheng ^a,b   Li, Feng Min ^a,b   Liu, Wen Zhao ^a   Huang, Zhan Bin ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HENAN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Competitive ability; Root pruning; Root system size; Water use efficiency (WUE); Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum)

Indexed keywords

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); IRRIGATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER;

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ROOT PRUNING; ROOT SYSTEM SIZE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CROPS;

CROP YIELD; PRUNING; ROOT SYSTEM; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRANSPIRATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WHEAT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 43049107222     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Angadi S.V., and Entz M. Root system and water use patterns of different height sunflower cultivars. Agron. J. 94 (2002) 136-145
2. Barraclough P.B., and Weir A.H. Effects of a compacted subsoil layer on root and shoot growth, water use and nutrient uptake of winter wheat. J. Agric. Sci. Camb. 110 (1988) 207-216
3. Blum A., and Johnson J.W. Wheat cultivars respond differently to a drying top soil and a possible non-hydraulic root signal. J. Exp. Bot. 44 (1993) 1149-1153
4. Clothier B., and Green S. Root zone processes and the efficient use of irrigation water. Agric. Water Manage. 25 (1994) 1-12
5. de Wit C.T. On Competition 66 (1960), Verslagen van land bouwkundige on derzoekingen, Wageningen pp. 1-81
6. Dennison R.F., Kiers E.T., and West S.A. Darwinian agriculture: when can humans find solutions beyond the reach of natural selection?. Quart. Rev. Biol. 78 (2003) 145-168
7. Donld C., and Hamblin M.J. The convergent evolution of annual seed crops in griculture. Adv. Agron. 36 (1983) 97-1436
8. Gaudet C.L., and Keddy P.A. A comparative approach to predicting competitive ability from plant traits. Nature 334 (1988) 242-243
9. Harper J.L. Population Biology of Plants (1977), Academic Press, London
10. Hurd E.A. Phenotype and drought tolerance in wheat. Agric. Meteorol. 14 (1974) 39-45
11. Kramer P.J. Plant and Soil Water Relationships: A Modern Synthesis (1969), McGraw-Hill, New York, NY p. 482
12. Lambers H., Atkin O.K., and Scheureater I. Respiratory patterns in root in relation to their function. In: Waisel Y., Eshel A., and Kafkafi U. (Eds). Plant Roots: The Hidden Half (1996), Marcel Dekker, New York 323-362
13. Li L.H., and Chen S.B. Study on root function efficiency of spring wheat under different moisture condition. Sci. Agric. Sin. 35 (2002) 867-871 (in Chinese with English abstract)
14. Li F.M., Liu X.L., and Li S.Q. Effects of early soil water distribution on the dry matter partition between roots and shoots of winter wheat. Agric. Water Manage. 49 (2001) 163-171
15. Liu H.S., and Li F.M. The study of spring wheat root function efficiency under water stress conditions. Acta Bot. Boreal. Occident. Sin. 23 (2003) 942-948 (in Chinese with English abstract)
16. Liu H.S., LI F.M., and Xu H. Carbon consumption of roots and its relationship to yield formation in spring wheat as affected by soil moisture. Acta Phytoecol. Sin. 28 (2004) 191-197 (in Chinese with English abstract)
17. Lou C.H. Signal transport and integral behavior in maintaining water economy in higher plant. Chin. Bull. Bot. 17 5 (2000) 475-477 (in Chinese with English abstract)
18. McCree K.J. Measuring the whole-plant daily carbon balance. Photosynthetica 2 (1986) 82-93
19. Passioura J.B. Roots and drought resistance. Agric. Water Manage. 7 (1983) 265-280
20. Shan L. Development trend of dry-land farming technologies. Sci. Agric. Sin. 35 (2002) 848-855 (in Chinese with English abstract)
21. Siddique K.H.M., Belford R.K., and Tennant D. Root: Shoot ratio of old and modern, tall and semidwarf wheat in a Meditertanean environment. Plant Soil 121 (1990) 89-98
22. Zhang R., and Zhang D.Y. A comparative study on root redundancy in spring wheat varieties released in different years in semi-arid area. Acta Phytoecol. Sin. 24 (2000) 298-303 (in Chinese with English abstract)
23. Zhang D.Y., Sun G.J., and Jiang X.H. Donald's ideotype and growth redundancy: a game theoretical analysis. Field Crops Res. 61 (1999) 179-187
24. Zhang R., Zhang D.Y., and Yuan B.Z. A study on the relationship between competitive ability and productive performance of spring wheat in semiarid regions of loess plateau. Acta Phytoecol. Sin. 23 (1999) 205-210 (in Chinese with English abstract)
25. Zhang S.Q., Shan L., and Deng X.P. Relation between growth of root system and water use efficiency during the evolution process. Chin. Sci. Bull. 47 (2002) 1327-1331 (in Chinese with English abstract)
26. Zhang X.Y., Pei D., and Chen S.Y. Root growth and soil water utilization of winter wheat in the North China Plain. Hydrol. Process 18 (2004) 2275-2287