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Journal articles on the topic "Raising Seedling"
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Zhu, Ying, Yanjun Duan, Zhiguo Liu, Mengjun Liu, and Ping Liu. "Growth and Physiological Characteristics of Sour Jujube Seedlings in Different Substrate Formulations." Agronomy 13, no. 7 (2023): 1797. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13071797.
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The raising of container seedlings with light substrates has become an important method of seedling raising, without delaying the seedling period. In order to reduce reliance on non-renewable peat and to promote the reuse of organic waste, this study compared the growth of sour jujube seedlings in different substrate formulations (i.e., different proportions of vermicompost instead of peat), using a semi-subterranean placement of root control bags, and explored the application of vermicompost in the raising of sour jujube seedlings. The results showed that there were significant differences in the growth and the physiological and photosynthetic characteristics of sour jujube seedlings treated with different substrates, among which substrates A2 (peat: vermicompost: vermiculite: garden soil = 0.5:0.5:1:1) and A3 (peat: vermiculite: garden soil = 1:2:1) were suitable for sour jujube seedling raising. The seedling height, the seedling ground diameter, the number of secondary branches, the length of the longest secondary branch, the total fresh weight, the aboveground fresh weight, the total root length, the root projection area, and the root surface area were all significantly greater than those of jujube seedlings grown on other substrates. Especially in A3, vermicompost can replace peat as the nursery substrate for sour jujube seedlings, removing dependence on non-renewable peat resources, reducing costs, and providing more prospects for application. The suitable substrate conditions for sour jujube seedlings were as follows: soil porosity 44.0–54.0%, electric conductivity (EC) value 0.2 mS/cm, organic matter 40.39~54.05 g·kg−1, total nitrogen and total phosphorus of 1.67~1.91 g·kg−1 and 0.95~1.20 g·kg−1, respectively, alkali-hydrolyzed nitrogen 139.75~154.69 mg·kg−1, and available phosphorus 137~224 mg·kg−1.
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Nie, Yingbin, Lu Jiang, Xiran Liu, Lei Feng, and Zhihong Li. "Study on the Use of Soda Saline–Alkali Soil as a Rice-Seedling-Raising Soil After Short-Term Improvement." Applied Sciences 15, no. 9 (2025): 4638. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15094638.
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In western Jilin Province, China, the presence of soda saline–alkali soil poses a significant threat to the raising of rice seedlings due to its harsh soil properties. The scarcity of suitable seedling-raising soil resources has become increasingly pronounced. A short-term soil-improvement experiment was conducted using the original saline–alkali soil sourced from the rice-growing region of Jilin Province, followed by the rice-seedling-raising test in the improved soil to identify an effective soil-improvement strategy. Four distinct treatments were established: no amendment (JCK); gypsum and straw (JCW); gypsum, straw, and sulfuric acid (JCWH); and gypsum, straw, and chemical fertilizer (JCWF). The effects of these amendment treatments on the soil physicochemical properties (pH, electrical conductivity, exchangeable sodium, total alkalinity) were evaluated, as well as the effects on soil organic carbon (SOC) and its components including humic acid carbon (HAC), and fulvic acid carbon (FAC). The results indicated that, compared to the control group, all amendment treatments effectively reduced the average soil pH by 0.53 to 0.79 units and decreased exchangeable sodium by 56.7% to 74.8%. Furthermore, the average SOC, HAC, and FAC increased by 48.3%, 89.4%, and 56.0%, respectively. Among the treatments, JCWH proved to be the most effective. After two years of improvement, the rice seedlings in the JCWH-treated soil exhibited the highest dry weight and plant height, surpassing those grown in the farmer’s seedling-raising soil. The scheme of utilizing soda saline–alkali soil for rice-seedling raising, following a short-term improvement treatment with corn straw, gypsum, and sulfuric acid (JCWH), provides technical support and an effective solution to the soil scarcity issue faced by seedling farmers in saline–alkali regions.
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Sojitra, M. A., R. M. Satasiya, P. M. Chauhan, H. V. Parmar, D. V. Patel, and G. V. Prajapati. "Economics of Raising Seedling of Broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. Italica) in Protected Structure." International Journal of Economic Plants 9, Nov, 4 (2022): 290–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.23910/2/2022.0499.
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The experiment was conducted during 2020−21 and 2021−22 at Green house complex, AICRP on Plastic Engineering in Agriculture Structure and Environment Management, Departmental of Renewable Energy Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Junagadh, Gujarat, India to study the economics of vegetable seedling nursery for high valued broccoli crop for profitable entrepreneurship. Timely sowing and optimizing plant population significantly increase vegetable production. The availability and required seedling in time play a major role in vegetable cultivation. The seedlings of broccoli are transplanted in the rabi season, therefore, farmers have to prepare seedlings in the late monsoon. The germination percentage and survival of seedlings are reduced due to extreme weather condition like frosting, freezing, heat wave, high temperature and excess soil moisture in the open field. Therefore, present work was carried out on the economic feasibility of seedling raising of broccoli in a natural ventilated net-cum-poly house. The seeds of broccoli of Namdhari seeds of F1 were sown in a plug tray in the month of September of the year 2020 and 2021. Plug trays were filled with the mixture of cocopeat and vermicompost in an equal proportion of 1:1 (V/V). The germination was recorded at 94% and each seedling of broccoli was sold for ` 1.60. The Gross Return (GR), Net Return (NR), and benefit-cost ratio of the seedling raising of broccoli were recorded as Rs. 556.80 m-2, Rs. 262.69 m-2 and 1.89, respectively.
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Дашзэвэг, Ц., та С. Амартүвшин. "СИБИРЬ ХУШ, СИБИРЬ ГАЦУУРЫН ТАРЬЦ УРГУУЛСАН СУДАЛГААНЫ ДҮН". Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences 52, № 2 (2014): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/pmas.v52i2.360.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/pmas.v52i2.360 Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences Vol.52(2) 2012 p.53-61SOME RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT TO RAISE SEEDLING OF PINUS SIBIRICA MAYR. AND PICEA OBOVATA LDB.Abstract: In Mongolia, Picea obovata Ldb. grows along the river basin and stream line in mixture with main species of trees. The area of forest dominated by Picea obovata Ldb. is 31.92 thousand hectare in total, which equals to 0.3% of total forest of the country (excluding Saxsaul forest).Experiment to raise Picea obovata seedling has been conducted in forest-vegetational zone of Western Khentii, first time in Mongolia. Experiment found that the most suitable period Picea obovata seeds are between 25 May and 5 June. This paper also presents agro-technique of raising Picea obovata Ldb. seedlings, linear parameters of above and below ground parts of seedling and biomass.Distribution of Siberian Pine forests (Pinus sibirica, Mayr.), basic characteristics, types and present status of Siberian Pine forests of Mongolia are been given in detail. Research of raising seedlings of Siberian Pine was conducted in Tunkhel area of Mandal soum, Selenge aimag, 2003 onwards, and the agrotechnique of raising seedlings of Siberian Pine is been determined.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/pmas.v52i2.360 Proceedings of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences Vol.52(2) 2012 p.53-61
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Lin, Jiaqi, Dongling Li, Zhenghui Pan, Dou Feng, and Weiyan Xuan. "Effect of the Floating Seedling Technique on Banana Seedling Growth." HortScience 57, no. 3 (2022): 458–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci16303-21.
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Floating seedling technology was used to propagate banana seedlings. The effects of different substrates, such as wood bran, vermiculite, and Murashige and Skoog (MS) nutrient solution, at different concentrations on the survival rate of banana floating seedlings and the growth of seedling stem, leaf, and root systems were compared. The results showed that banana seedlings treated with MS nutrient solution at one-half or one-third concentration or hydroponically with controlled slow-release fertilizer (0.5–0.6 g/plant) directly added to the wood bran substrate grew the fastest and had the largest number of roots. At 50 days after transplanting, these banana seedlings reached the standard of first-grade packaged seedlings, with the number of expanded leaves reaching 6.6 to 7.6, the width of leaves reaching 6.5 cm to 7.3 cm, and the root system relatively developed. The comprehensive characteristics of the seedlings were all better than those of other treatments. The results of this study have certain reference significance for accelerating seedling growth in greenhouses and large-scale production of disease-free banana seedlings. The banana floating seedling system we developed did not need watering every day and may be simpler than other seedling raising methods.
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Ma, Guoxin, Hanping Mao, Quan Bu, Luhua Han, Abdul Shabbir, and Feng Gao. "Effect of Compound Biochar Substrate on the Root Growth of Cucumber Plug Seedlings." Agronomy 10, no. 8 (2020): 1080. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081080.
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Since plug seedling plays a key role in automatic transplanting, this work aimed to explore the effect biochar has on the root growth of plug seedlings. The physicochemical properties tests showed that the addition of biochar in the peats could increase the porosity, pH, and EC values of the substrate, and the substrates treated with 0%, 10%, 20%, and 30% biochar could meet the requirements of seedling raising. The water retention of the substrate was superior with the increase of biochar proportion, and the nitrogen release significantly decreased with the increase of the biochar proportion. Our results demonstrated that the substrate with 10% biochar-treated apparently promoted the growth of seedlings and root systems, even the length of the root-tip cells. However, the substrates with 40% and 50% biochar-treated obviously inhibited the growth of seedlings and root systems. It was noticed that the strength of substrate with appropriate biochar proportion was enhanced, as well. Under the interaction of strong root system and solid substrate, the compressive strength of the substrate with 20% and 10% biochar-treated was much better than others, especially that of 40% and 50% biochar-treated, which efficiently satisfied the requirements of automatic seedling picking. The biochar may have a good application prospect in seedling raising.
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CHENG, S. R. "DIFFERENT SEEDLING RAISING METHODS AFFECT CHARACTERISTICS OF MACHINE-TRANSPLANTED RICE SEEDLINGS." Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 16, no. 2 (2018): 1399–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.15666/aeer/1602_13991412.
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Memon, N., I. S. E. Bally, F. S. Fateh, M. Memon, and L. Kumar. "Raising healthy seedling rootstocks of mango." Acta Horticulturae, no. 1183 (November 2017): 139–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.2017.1183.19.
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Sharma, R., and D. Rana. "Effect of growth media, seed size and depth of sowing on growth and quality of seedlings of physic nut (Jatropha curcas Linn.)." Indian Journal of Forestry 30, no. 4 (2007): 467–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2007-9r89qz.
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A field experiment was carried out during summer season of 2004 to assess the effect of growth media, size and weight of seed and depth of seed sowing on the growth and quality of seedlings of Physic nut (Jatropha curcas Linn.). The analysis of data revealed that germination percentage (80.5%), final seedling stand before transplanting (75.6%), seedling height (90.50 cm), number of branches per seedling (1.93), collar diameter (2.61 cm), root total length per seedling (608 cm), leaf area per seedling (10597 cm2), total dry weight per seedling (164.2 g), total chlorophyll content (2.92 mg/g of tissue) and quality index (Dickson’s quality index and sturdiness quotient) of seedlings were significantly higher under raised seedbed of soil + FYM mixture (3:1 ratio) closely followed by raised seedbed of soil alone. Seedlings grown on polythene bags filled with soil + FYM mixture (3:1 ratio) recorded least values of all these parameters. Cost of nursery raising based on 5000 seedlings (Rs. 7660) was highest under polythene bags filled with soil + FYM mixture (3:1 ratio) while net returns (Rs. 6120) and benefit: cost ratio (1:21) was highest under raised seedbed of soil alone followed by raised seedbed of soil + FYM mixture (3:1 ratio). Negative net returns (Rs 1315) and benefit: cost ratio (-0.17) were recorded under polythene bags filled with soil + FYM mixture (3:1 ratio). Bold seeds sown at 3 to 4 cm depth produced significantly superior seedlings in terms of growth and quality parameters over the normal seeds sown at 5 to 6 cm depth. Bold seeds sown at 3 to 4 cm depth also improved economics of nursery raising over normal seeds sown at 5-6 cm depth.
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Negi, Pitambar, Ashwani Tapwal, Jawala Prasad, Monika, and Anu Sharma. "Influence of seed sources on germination and seedling vigour of Pinus gerardiana." Indian Journal of Forestry 45, no. 1 (2022): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.54207/bsmps1000-2022-08x864.
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An experiment was conducted to study the influence of seed sources on seed germination and seedling vigour of Pinus gerardiana seeds collected from 23 seed sources during October, 2018 in Kinnaur and Chamba districts of Himachal Pradesh. The seeds were subjected to germination testing to identify the best seed source for raising Pinus gerardiana seedlings in the nursery. Significant differences were observed in germination percent, average seedling length and seedling vigour of seeds collected from different seed sources. The maximum germination of 83.00% was recorded in seeds collected from Jangi seed source followed by 74.00% germination in seeds collected from Purbani, 71.00% germination in seeds collected from Moorang in Kinnaur Forest Division whereas minimum germination of 36.00% germination was recorded in seeds collected from Luj in Pangi Forest Division. Similarly, maximum seedling length of 11.10 cm was recorded in seeds collected from Jangi followed by 10.50 cm in seeds collected from Purbani and 10.21 cm in seeds collected from Moorang in Kinnaur Forest Division whereas minimum seedling length of 7.70 cm was recorded from seeds collected from Luj in Pangi Forest Division. The maximum seedling vigour index of 921 was recorded in seeds collected from Jangi followed by seedling vigour index of 777 from Purbani and seedling vigour index of 724 from Moorang in a decreasing order whereas minimum seedling vigour index of 277 was recorded in seeds collected from Luj in Pangi Forest Division. It is recommended on the basis of present investigation that seeds of Pinus gerardiana should be collected from Jangi seed source in Kinnaur district for raising quality seedlings in the nursery.
Books on the topic "Raising Seedling"
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Longman, K. A., and R. H. F. Wilson. Raising Seedlings of Tropical Trees. OECD Publishing, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.14217/9781848597341-en.
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Schmidt, Hanna, and Andrea Ketzel. "Raising sweet cherry seedlings by using in vitro techniques." In Developments in Plant Breeding. Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0467-8_76.
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Raharilaza, Nathalie Viviane. "Degraded Landscape Transformed into Foodland and Woodland by Village Agroforestry." In Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS). Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6761-6_3.
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AbstractThis case study shares the results and lessons learned from agroforestry practices to restore a degraded and abandoned landscape, the production of seedlings of native and endemic tree species for forest restoration, and a trial of autochthones species transplantation at the village level in Madagascar. Awareness-raising and facilitation carried out by the NGO team on landscape changes and their effects on local people’s lives, food and natural resources, were the initial drivers of this process. A farmer led the landscape restoration experimentation by taking part of his poor, degraded land that had been long abandoned, and giving the green light to use it as a ‘farmer field school’. The community decided to keep the other side of the field untouched to enable comparison. Community members learned from each other by periodically sharing experiences. Community capacity-building on family accounting, production and harvest management helped community members to make decisions regarding the choice of crops and landscaping types suited to their needs. The community started to see results from the third year and increased the landscaped areas to boost future production. Some native trees like Harina (Bridelia tuleasneana), a highly preferred tree usually harvested from the rainforest for building materials, adapted very well to the village. The villagers learned to plant them rather than harvest them from the natural forest. The commitment, patience and courage of the community, and their immense pride in what they have achieved, created a cascading effect leading to sustainability.
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Dai, Jixun, Quanqi Zhang, and Zhenmin Bao. "Genetic breeding and seedling raising experiments with Porphyra protoplasts." In Genetics in Aquaculture. Elsevier, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-81527-9.50018-x.
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Richards, Joan L. "Rearing Young Seedlings." In Generations of Reason. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300255492.003.0019.
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The De Morgan family continued to grow with the addition of George Campbell in 1841; Edward Lindsey in 1843; Anne Isabella in 1845. As she was raising her brood, Sophia’s interest in larger forms of consciousness played out in the practice of mesmerism, which was in some ways a reaction against contemporary medical practice. Snug in his library, De Morgan wrapped up his investigations of algebra, and set out to incorporate logic into his literalist view of reason. He built on ideas of logic as reason that were first proposed by Richard Whately. William Whewell acted as a sounding board for his ideas, while the Scottish philosopher William Hamilton was a fierce opponent.
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Evans, Julian, and John W. Turnbull. "Seed collection, supply, and storage." In Plantation Forestry in the Tropics. Oxford University PressOxford, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198529941.003.0009.
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Abstract Growing seedlings in a forest nursery is the main way of raising planting stock in the tropics, though increasingly some plantation species are propagated vegetatively. Large quantities of seeds are needed each year for industrial plantations and smaller-scale planting by farmers, villagers, smallholders, and other land managers. There is abundant evidence from around the world (e.g. Jones 1994) to show that the availability of good quality seed of the best adapted species is one of the most critical factors in ensuring healthy, productive, and profitable plantations.
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Ma, Wei, and Zhiwei Tian. "Application of machine vision in plant factories." In Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor vertical farming. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19103/as.2023.0126.10.
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Plant factories have great potential for mitigating the contradiction between the growing global population and food scarcity. Machine vision plays an important role during automated food production, covering each production stage from raising seedlings, transplanting, management, harvesting and grading to packaging. In this paper, the prospects of machine vision application in plant factories are analyzed, then the present research utilizing this technology are summarized, including plant growth monitoring, robot operation assistance and fruit grading. Through the analyses, it is found that although existing methods have solved various practical problems with the advantages of low cost, high efficiency and high precision, there are still various challenges facing machine vision. Firstly, changing lighting conditions, complex indoor environments and color similarities between a plant’s organs can cause common image segmentation algorithms to fail. The lack of standard agricultural datasets hinders deep learning and unsupervised classification algorithms from making significant progress. Secondly, there are various theoretical knowledge gaps regarding the application of machine vision in the specific plant factory environment, which seriously hinders its application effect. Thirdly, a shortage of special image acquisition devices and supporting facilities has resulted in poor image quality. All these factors hinder machine vision to promote the development of plant factories. Nevertheless, this technology remains a powerful tool and is currently irreplaceable. We believe that machine vision will become more robust, efficient and reliable with the development of computer technology, the application of deep learning and updated algorithms.
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Dalton, David R. "General Comments." In The Chemistry of Wine. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687199.003.0008.
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Viticulture is the art and science of vine-growing and grape-harvesting. In general, the portions of our planet lying between 20° and 50° latitude on either side of the equator (Figure 1.1) are considered suitable for the vines. In these temperate climates, the tilt of the earth’s axis in relation to the sun results in temperatures in the Northern hemisphere in March (and the Southern hemisphere in September) that rarely fall below about 50° Fahrenheit (F) (10° Celsius [C]). As analytical chemistry and possibilities for genomic and epigenomic analysis have evolved, it has become possible to begin to monitor and understand, in detail, how climate affects wine production. For example, a recent Italian study investigated the changes, over a three-year period, in phenotype of a Vitis vinifera cultivar by looking at the transcriptome. They found that most responses they could follow could be attributed to local early spring weather patterns. While a complete analysis was not reported, it was concluded that weather patterns in the previous year were correlated with current year growth. Much of the biology for raising grapes has been discussed, and while 80% of the world’s grape crop is used for production of wine there have been and remain formidable technical difficulties in breeding grapevines. Part of the breeding problem derives from the fact that grapevines are highly heterozygous outcrossers, and so they do not breed true from seed. But they are good cultivars and are polygenic (poly = many; genic = genes). Their inheritance appears to be controlled by large numbers of genes of minor effect. As a consequence, traditional cultivars, grown in their accustomed places, appear to possess subtle combinations of genes whose totality can be preserved by grafting techniques but not in other ways. That is why it appears that the wines produced by such longstanding and traditional cultivars in the hands of vintners accustomed to their nature have unique characteristics of style and quality. Indeed, it seems that it is largely to encourage and maintain such subtle differences that grapevines are seldom propagated from seedlings (but see below) unless a “new” variety is sought by breeders.
Conference papers on the topic "Raising Seedling"
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Ashik-E-Rabbani, Md, Md Mosharraf Hossain, Surajit Sarkar, et al. "<i>Seedling Raising Techniques at Farmers� Level for Mechanical Transplanting</i>." In 2017 Spokane, Washington July 16 - July 19, 2017. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/aim.201700770.
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Barg, Rivka, Kendal D. Hirschi, Avner Silber, Gozal Ben-Hayyim, Yechiam Salts, and Marla Binzel. Combining Elevated Levels of Membrane Fatty Acid Desaturation and Vacuolar H+ -pyrophosphatase Activity for Improved Drought Tolerance. United States Department of Agriculture, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2012.7613877.bard.
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Background to the topic: In previous works we have shown that Arabidopsis and tomato over-expressing H+-pyrophosphatase show increased tolerance to drought imposed by withholding irrigation of young plants in pots (Park et al. 2005). In addition, young tobacco plants over-expressing fatty acid desaturase 3 (OEX-FAD3) also showed increasing tolerance to drought stress (Zhang et al 2005), and similarly OEX-FAD3 young tomato plants (unpublished data from ARO), hence raising the possibility that pyramiding the two could further improve drought tolerance in tomato. Based on these findings the specific objects originally set were: 1. To analyze the impact of pyramiding transgenes for enhanced fatty acid desaturation and for elevated H+-PPase activity on tomato yielding under water deficit stress conditions. 2. To elucidate the biochemical relationship between elevated desaturation of the membrane lipids and the activities of selected vacuolar transporters in the context of drought responses. 3. To explore the S. pennellii introgression lines as alternative genetic sources for drought tolerance related to enhanced fatty acid desaturation and/or H+-PPase activity. 4. Since OEX-FAD3 increases the levels of linolenic acid which is the precursor of various oxylipins including the stress hormone Jasmonate. (JA), study of the effect of this transgene on tolerance to herbivore pests was added as additional goal. The Major conclusions, solutions, and achievements are: (1) The facts that ectopic over-expression of vacuolarH+-PPases (in line OEX-AVP1) does not change the fatty acid profile compared to the parental MoneyMaker (MM) line and that elevated level of FA desaturation (by OEX-FAD3) does not change the activity of either H+-PPase, H+-ATPaseor Ca2+ /H+ antiport, indicate that the observed increased drought tolerance reported before for increase FA desaturation in tobacco plants and increased H+PPase in tomato plants involves different mechanisms. (2) After generating hybrid lines bringing to a common genetic background (i.e. F1 hybrids between line MP-1 and MM) each of the two transgenes separately and the two transgenes together the effect of various drought stress regimes including recovery from a short and longer duration of complete water withhold as well as performance under chronic stresses imposed by reducing water supply to 75-25% of the control irrigation regime could be studied. Under all the tested conditions in Israel, for well established plants grown in 3L pots or larger, none of the transgenic lines exhibited a reproducible significantly better drought tolerance compare to the parental lines. Still, examining the performance of these hybrids under the growth practices followed in the USA is called for. (3) Young seedlings of none of the identified introgression lines including the S. pennellii homologs of two of the H+-PPase genes and one of the FAD7 genes performed better than line M82 upon irrigation withhold. However, differences in the general canopy structures between the IL lines and M82 might mask such differences if existing. (4). Over-expression of FAD3 in the background of line MP-1 was found to confer significant tolerance to three important pest insects in tomato: Bordered Straw (Heliothis peltigera), Egyptian cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis) and Western Flower Thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis). Implications: Although the original hypothesis that pyramiding these two trasgenes could improve drought tolerance was not supported, the unexpected positive impact on herbivore deterring, as well as the changes in dynamics of JA biosynthesis in response to wounding and the profound changes in expression of wound response genes calls for deciphering the exact linolenic acid derived signaling molecule mediating this response. This will further facilitate breeding for herbivore pest and mechanical stress tolerance based on this pathway.