留茬方式对小麦间作玉米产量和水分利用效率的影响

小麦/玉米间作是河西绿洲灌区主要间作模式,但传统间作和套种需水量大,使该地区水资源紧张.2010年在甘肃河西走廊石羊河绿洲灌区进行大田试验,研究传统小麦秸秆焚烧、秸秆翻还和秸秆立茬3种留茬方式对小麦/玉米间作作物籽粒产量、水分利用效率(WUE)和经济效益的影响.结果表明： 与焚烧和翻还的籽粒产量相比,立茬小麦单作分别增加7.2%和5.1%,立茬小麦间作分别增加6.2%和5.1%,立茬玉米单作分别增加4.7%和2.5%,立茬玉米间作分别增加7.2%和3.3%;与焚烧和翻还的WUE相比,立茬小麦单作分别增加20.4%和16.2%,立茬小麦间作分别增加17.9%和14.6%,立茬玉米单作分别增加16.7%和10.9%,立茬玉米间作分别增加11.8%和17.0%.就单作小麦、单作玉米和小麦/玉米平均值而言,焚烧、翻还、立茬处理的纯收益分别为10946、11471和13454元·hm^-2.从籽粒产量、水分利用效率和纯收益等方面考虑,立茬种植方式为甘肃省河西绿洲灌区小麦/玉米最佳种植模式.     

留茬免耕播种对河西绿洲灌区春小麦出苗和产量的影响

本研究通过田间定位试验,探讨了河西绿洲灌区单作小麦、小麦/玉米间作、小麦/大豆间作3种典型春小麦生产模式下,长期留茬免耕播种对春小麦出苗和产量的影响,为该区域春小麦高效可持续生产提供理论依据。结果表明: 与传统翻耕相比,留茬免耕播种小麦/玉米和小麦/大豆间作的小麦出苗率、出苗均匀度下降明显,降幅分别为3.3%～8.6%、9.6%～20.5%和2.9%～8.8%、10.7%～61.7%;单作小麦的出苗均匀度有所提高,其中2019年显著增加14.9%,而出苗率在2020年显著降低4.2%;3种种植方式下,春小麦麦苗整齐度均有所下降。留茬免耕播种3种种植模式下,春小麦成穗数在收获时均与传统翻耕处理持平,差异不显著。3种模式下的春小麦均可以通过提高穗粒数和千粒重来弱化出苗对产量的影响,在收获时,春小麦籽粒产量的增幅分别为10.3%～12.9%(单作小麦)、10.5%～11.9%(小麦/玉米间作)和10.3%～22.5%(小麦/大豆间作),均达到显著水平。在农田风蚀退化极其严重的河西绿洲灌区,留茬免耕播种是春小麦生产中切实可行的耕作措施。     

施氮量对小麦/玉米带田土壤水分及硝态氮的影响

通过田间试验研究了河西绿洲灌区典型的小麦/玉米间作群体不同施氮量(0、210、420和630 kg/hm2)对小麦、玉米带田土壤水分和硝态氮(NO3(-)-N)的动态的影响.结果表明:小麦/玉米总籽粒产量随着施氮量的增加而增加,但当施氮量超过420kg/hm2时,总籽粒产量不再随施氮量增加而增加,最高总籽粒产量可达13661-14668 kg/hm2.水分利用效率在施氮420 kg/hm2时最高可达21.25 kg·hm-2·mm-1.小麦收获后,0-120 cm土层内土壤含水量随施氮量增加而减少,NO3(-)-N的累积量随施氮量增加而增加,并且表层土壤(0-60 cm) NO3(-)-N含量明显高于深层土壤(60-200 cm).在小麦/玉米整个生育期,土壤硝态氮的变化呈双峰曲线.施氮0和210 kg/hm2的土壤硝态氮第一峰值和第二峰值均分别出现在小麦三叶期和玉米大喇叭口期;施氮420和630 kg/hm2的土壤硝态氮第一峰值出现在小麦挑旗期,第二峰值分别出现在玉米大喇叭口期和玉米灌浆期.因此,在该地区小麦/玉米间作栽培模式下,施氮水平控制在420 kg/hm2时,使混合产量达到最高,同时可减轻土壤硝态氮的累积和运移,从而达到高效、安全的目的.     

间作对玉米品质、产量及土壤微生物数量和酶活性的影响

为了进一步深入了解禾本科作物和豆科作物间作的优势机理,研究了在不同施肥条件下玉米单作、玉米‖花生间作和玉米‖大豆间作对玉米籽粒品质、单株经济产量和生物产量﹑产量及土壤中细菌、真菌、放线菌和固氮菌数量及酶活性的影响。结果表明,在不施肥条件下玉米间作可以显著提高玉米籽粒蛋白质、油分和赖氨酸含量,但对淀粉含量影响不显著;在施肥条件下玉米间作可以显著提高淀粉和赖氨酸含量,但对油分和蛋白质含量的增加却影响不显著;间作在提高玉米籽粒淀粉、蛋白质和赖氨酸含量方面的效果没有该施氮水平(50kg/km²)显著。间作可以增加玉米产量及其单株经济产量和生物产量,其中在不施肥和施肥条件下产量分别比单作增加了3.7％、9.7％、19.0％和18.6％,但间作在增加产量方面的效果没有该施氮水平显著。间作在不同施肥条件下可明显增加土壤中细菌、真菌、放线菌和固氮菌的数量,且效果达到显著水平。土壤中的酶活性也显著受到间作的影响,在不施肥条件下玉米间作和单作土壤中的转化酶活性差异达到显著水平,在施肥条件下间作和单作土壤中转化酶和磷酸酶活性差异达到显著水平。4种微生物数量和4种酶活性之间呈显著或极显著正相关,玉米籽粒品质、产量及单株生物产量除与转化酶及磷酸酶活性部分相关不显著外,与土壤中的其它酶活性及微生物数量皆显著或极显著正相关。     

基于稳定碳同位素技术的华北低丘山区核桃-小麦复合系统种间水分利用研究

农林复合系统的林木和作物会充分利用水肥光热等资源、而在资源亏缺时也可能产生竞争,在华北低丘山区等水资源紧缺地区,种间水分竞争尤为突出。在冬小麦返青期、拔节期、灌浆期和成熟期4个生育期,测算了该地区核桃-小麦间作系统和单作小麦不同组分的稳定碳同位素组成(Stable carbon isotope ratio,δ13C)和核桃树干液流,结合生物量和气象数据资料计算出水分利用效率(water use efficiency,WUE)和耗水量(Water use,WU)。结果表明,间作核桃树、间作小麦和单作小麦的WUE分别为10.771—21.233、9.946—19.149和9.878—18.431 mmol C/mol H2O。单作小麦WUE在拔节期显著小于间作小麦。间作系统总耗水量为1755.19 t/hm2,比单作系统的2538.13 t/hm2少30.85%。核桃-小麦间作系统中,核桃耗水量占系统总耗水量的36.34%,在小麦的生长前期所占比例最多、在小麦旺盛生长期所占比重较小,而小麦越往生长后期需水越多。核桃与间作小麦的需水期错开,在时间上避免水分竞争。距离核桃树越近浅层土土壤含水量越高、而深层土越低,表明核桃主要吸收深层水,而间作小麦主要吸收浅层水,从位置上避免水分竞争。单作小麦产量、总生物量和总耗水量分别比核桃间作小麦的高26.79%、27.12%、36.30%(P=0.001、P=0.033、P=0.050)。间作核桃和单作核桃的单株果实产量平均分别为0.88和0.94 kg(P=0.829)。然而,核桃-小麦间作系统的产量土地当量比(Land equivalent ratio,LER)和产值水分利用效率(WUE ofeconomics,WUEe)却分别达到1.67和25.92元.mm-.1hm-2,比单作系统明显提高、水资源获得高效利用,同时具备生产优势和经济优势。     

不同氮水平下作物养分吸收与利用对玉米马铃薯间作产量优势的贡

玉米与马铃薯间作是重要的间作种植模式,具有较突出的资源利用和产量优势,但养分吸收和利用对作物产量优势的贡献及这种贡献对施氮量的响应机制尚不清楚.本研究采用玉米单作、马铃薯单作和玉米与马铃薯间作3种种植模式,分别设置N_0(0 kg·hm~(-2))、N_1(125 kg·hm~(-2))、N_2(250 kg·hm~(-2))和N_3(375 kg·hm~(-2))4个氮水平,通过2年田间小区试验,研究不同氮水平下间作产量优势的营养基础.结果表明:随着施氮量的增加,氮、磷、钾的单作加权平均吸收量逐渐增加,间作则先增加后减少.间作在N_1水平时具最高的养分吸收优势,分别较单作加权平均值增加氮吸收14.9%、磷吸收38.6%、钾吸收27.8%;间作在N0和N3时具有更高的养分利用效率,较单作可提高氮利用效率3.5%~14.3%、磷利用效率3.5%~18.5%、钾利用效率10.6%~31.6%.N_0和N_1时玉米与马铃薯间作具有显著产量优势,其营养基础在N0时主要是提高了作物养分利用效率,而N_1时则是促进养分吸收的结果.充分发挥间作促进养分吸收对玉米与马铃薯间作产量优势的贡献,需要合理控制氮肥的投入.     

控水对饲草作物间作群体产量、根冠比及水分利用效率的影响

黄土高原半湿润易旱区降水资源短缺且年际分配不均,研究水分供应对饲草作物生长的影响对该区饲草栽培具有重要的指导意义。在遮雨棚中采用盆栽控水的方法,研究了箭筈豌豆单作、燕麦单作、饲用玉米单作、燕麦/箭筈豌豆间作、燕麦/饲用玉米间作5种种植模式在高水(70%田间持水量)、中水(55%田间持水量)、低水(40%田间持水量)3个供水水平下的群体产量、根冠比以及水分利用效率。结果表明: 在高、中、低3个供水水平下,燕麦/箭筈豌豆间作群体的土地当量比分别为1.20、1.21和1.19,燕麦/饲用玉米间作群体的土地当量比分别为1.17、1.11和1.03,均表现为间作优势。同一供水水平下,5种种植模式中单作饲用玉米总干物质产量最高,单作箭筈豌豆最低。单作燕麦的干物质产量和粗蛋白产量均随水分供应量的减少而增加,而单作箭筈豌豆和单作玉米则表现出相反的趋势。在个体水平上,间作提高了燕麦干物质产量和粗蛋白产量,而降低了箭筈豌豆和饲用玉米的产量,燕麦表现为间作优势。燕麦/箭筈豌豆间作群体干物质产量在中水和低水处理下比高水处理分别增加4.1%和4.8%,但差异不显著;而燕麦/饲用玉米间作群体干物质产量在中水和低水处理比高水处理分别显著降低8.0%和13.0%。燕麦/箭筈豌豆间作群体的根冠比在中水和低水处理下分别比高水处理显著增加33.4%和58.4%,中水和低水处理显著降低了燕麦/饲用玉米间作群体的根冠比。燕麦/箭筈豌豆间作群体的水分利用效率在中水和低水处理下分别比高水处理显著增加11.7%和12.9%,而燕麦/饲用玉米间作群体的水分利用效率在中水和低水处理下与高水处理相比变化不显著。单作玉米和燕麦/饲用玉米间作群体的产量较高,但其对水分变化较为敏感、产量稳定性差,燕麦/箭筈豌豆间作群体在水分变化条件下产量稳定、粗蛋白产量占优、水分利用效率较高,建议在研究区使用。     

不同保护性耕作措施对武威绿洲灌区冬小麦水分利用的影响

2006—2008年通过田间定位试验,研究了武威绿洲灌区不同耕作措施（传统耕作、秸杆翻压、免耕不覆盖、免耕秸杆立茬、免耕秸杆覆盖）对冬小麦土壤水分空间分布、动态变化、作物耗水量、水分利用效率和产量的影响.结果表明：返青至拔节期,免耕秸杆覆盖（NTS）和免耕秸杆立茬（NTSS）处理显著提高了0～30 cm土壤贮水量,处理间差异较大,在小麦拔节后差异变小;返青至成熟期,NTS和NTSS处理30～150 cm土壤贮水量都大于传统耕作处理（T）;播种期,NTS、NTSS和NT（免耕不覆盖）处理0～150 cm土层总贮水量分别比T处理增加29.55～34.69、17.32～21.79和0.89～15.68 mm,收获期分别增加37.59～38.35、5.70～22.14和4.61～13.93 mm,且随着土层深度的增加处理间土壤贮水量差异增大.NTS、NTSS、NT和TIS（秸杆翻压）处理小麦产量分别比T处理提高15.65%～16.84%、6.98%～12.75%、5.88%～11.74%和3.92%～8.16%,水分利用效率分别提高17.15%～17.52%、7.75%～9.65%、8.24%～10.00%和4.17%～9.91%.免耕秸杆覆盖（NTS）和免耕秸杆立茬（NTSS）处理提高了冬小麦产量和水分利用效率,是改善该区域水资源匮乏的有效耕作措施.     

不同氮水平下作物养分吸收与利用

玉米与马铃薯间作是重要的间作种植模式,具有较突出的资源利用和产量优势,但养分吸收和利用对作物产量优势的贡献及这种贡献对施氮量的响应机制尚不清楚.本研究采用玉米单作、马铃薯单作和玉米与马铃薯间作3种种植模式,分别设置N₀(0 kg·hm^-2)、N₁(125 kg·hm^-2)、N₂(250 kg·hm^-2)和N₃(375 kg·hm^-2)4个氮水平,通过2年田间小区试验,研究不同氮水平下间作产量优势的营养基础.结果表明: 随着施氮量的增加,氮、磷、钾的单作加权平均吸收量逐渐增加,间作则先增加后减少.间作在N₁水平时具最高的养分吸收优势,分别较单作加权平均值增加氮吸收14.9%、磷吸收38.6%、钾吸收27.8%;间作在N₀和N₃时具有更高的养分利用效率,较单作可提高氮利用效率3.5%～14.3%、磷利用效率3.5%～18.5%、钾利用效率10.6%～31.6%.N₀和N₁时玉米与马铃薯间作具有显著产量优势,其营养基础在N₀时主要是提高了作物养分利用效率,而N₁时则是促进养分吸收的结果.充分发挥间作促进养分吸收对玉米与马铃薯间作产量优势的贡献,需要合理控制氮肥的投入.     

玉米与籽粒苋不同种植模式下植物生长及Cd累积特征

为实现Cd污染农田边生产边修复的目标,采用田间原位修复的方式,将玉米与籽粒苋在Cd污染农田中以5种不同的间作模式种植: 交替宽窄行玉米宽行间作单行籽粒苋(T₁)、交替宽窄行玉米宽行间作双行籽粒苋(T₂)、等行距双行玉米间作单行籽粒苋(T₃)、等行距双行玉米间作双行籽粒苋(T₄)、玉米/籽粒苋等4行距间作(T₅),并以玉米(CK₁)和籽粒苋(CK₂)单作种植作为对照,探究不同间作结构配置对作物与超富集植物生长及Cd累积特征的影响.结果表明: 1)与CK₁相比,各间作模式单株玉米的籽粒产量呈增加趋势;T₁间作模式玉米的籽粒产量较CK₁增加10.5%,T₄和T₅间作模式玉米的籽粒产量较CK₁分别减少6.3%和5.4%,T₂和T₃间作模式基本稳产;间作籽粒苋地上部单株生物量及单位面积产量较CK₂分别显著减少69.5%～95.7%和83.9%～96.9%. 2)各间作模式玉米籽粒Cd含量较CK₁呈减少趋势,而间作籽粒苋Cd含量较CK₂呈增加趋势. 3)与CK₂相比,各间作模式籽粒苋的富集系数、转运系数、有效转运系数均呈增加趋势;间作籽粒苋地上部Cd的单株及单位面积提取量较CK₂分别显著减少40.4%～86.7%和70.4%～88.9%;各间作模式玉米与籽粒苋地上部Cd的单位面积提取总量高于单作玉米,但低于单作籽粒苋. 4)各间作模式玉米根际土有效态Cd含量及籽粒苋根际土总Cd、有效态Cd含量分别较单作玉米及单作籽粒苋呈增加趋势,但对非根际土没有显著影响.本研究中,T₁间作模式有利于玉米籽粒产量的提高,T₅间作模式有利于籽粒苋Cd提取量的最大化.     

Divergent properties of prolamins in wheat and maize

Cereal grains are an important nutritional source of amino acids for humans and livestock worldwide. Wheat, barley, and oats belong to a different subfamily of the grasses than rice and in addition to maize, millets, sugarcane, and sorghum. All their seeds, however, are largely devoid of free amino acids because they are stored during dormancy in specialized storage proteins. Prolamins, the major class of storage proteins in cereals with preponderance of proline and glutamine, are synthesized at the endoplasmic reticulum during seed development and deposited into subcellular structures of the immature endosperm, the protein bodies. Prolamins have diverged during the evolution of the grass family in their structure and their properties. Here, we used the expression of wheat glutenin-Dx5 in maize to examine its interaction with maize prolamins during endosperm development. Ectopic expression of Dx5 alters protein body morphology in a way that resembles non-vitreous kernel phenotypes, although Dx5 alone does not cause an opaque phenotype. However, if we lower the amount of γ-zeins in Dx5 maize through RNAi, a non-vitreous phenotype emerges and the deformation on the surface of protein bodies is enhanced, indicating that Dx5 requires γ-zeins for its proper subcellular organization in maize.     

The production of haploid wheat plants from wheat x maize crosses

Summary Hybrid embryos from hexaploid wheat x maize crosses rapidly lose the maize chromosomes to produce haploid wheat embryos. Such embryos almost always aborted when left to develop on the plant, and only 1 was recovered from 2440 florets (0.17% of the expected number). Embryos had greater viability in spikelet culture, 47 (26.5% of the expected number) being recovered from 706 ovaries. Thirty-two of these embryos germinated to give green plants, 31 of which were haploid (21 wheat chromosomes) and 1 of which was euploid (42 wheat chromosomes). Spikelet culture enabled 17.1% of the expected number of embryos to be recovered as haploid plants, a 100-fold improvement on allowing embryos to develop in vivo. Ten haploid plants of Chinese Spring (kr1, kr2), 13 plants of Chinese Spring (Hope 5A) (kr1, Kr2), and 8 of Hope (Kr1, Kr2) were recovered. The potential of wheat x maize crosses for wheat haploid production and for gene transfer from maize to wheat is discussed.     

Homoeologous relationships of rice, wheat and maize chromosomes

A set of cDNA clones, which had previously been mapped onto wheat chromosomes, was genetically mapped onto the chromosomes of rice. The resulting comparative maps make it possible to estimate the degree of linkage conservation between these two species. A number of chromosomal rearrangements, some of which must have involved interchromosomal translocations, differentiate the rice and wheat genomes. However, synteny of a large proportion of the loci appears to be conserved between the two species. The results of this study, combined with those from a recently published comparative map of the rice and maize genomes, suggest that rice, wheat and maize share extensive homoeologies in a number of regions in their genomes. Some chromosomes (e.g. chromosome 4 in rice, chromosomes 2 and 2S in wheat and maize, respectively) may have escaped major rearrangement since the divergence of these species from their last common ancestor. Comparative maps for rice, wheat and maize should make it possible to begin uniting the genetics of these species and allow for transfer of mapping information (including centromere positions) and molecular marker resources (e.g. RFLP probes) between species. In addition, such maps should shed light on the nature of chromosome evolution that accompanied the radiation of grasses in the early stages of plant diversification.     

Characterisation of the expression of a novel constitutive maize promoter in transgenic wheat and maize

A novel constitutive promoter from the maize histone H2Bgene was recently identified. In this study, we characterised H2B promoter activity in both wheat and maize tissues using the gusA reporter gene and two synthetic versions of the pat (phosphinothricin acetyl transferase) selectable marker gene, namely mopat and popat. Analyses of transgenic plants showed that the H2B promoter is able to drive the expression of gusA to strong, constitutive levels in wheat and maize tissues. Using an H2B:mopat construct and phosphinothricin selection, we recovered transgenic wheat plants at efficiencies ranging from 0.3% to 7.4% (mean 1.6%), and the efficiency of selection ranged from 40% to 100% (mean 77.7%). In another application, H2B was combined with the maize Ubi-1 or the maize Adh-1 intron to drive the expression of mopat and popat. Transformation efficiencies with the Ubi-1 intron were between 1.4- to 16-fold greater than with the Adh-1 intron. However, the use of either of the introns was necessary for the recovery of transgenic plants. Mopat gave higher transformation efficiencies and induced higher levels of PAT protein in maize tissues than popat.     

Durum wheat haploid production using maize wide-crossing

While anther culture or pollinations with Hordeum bulbosum have provided suitable methods for haploid production in bread wheat, they have been largely unsuccessful in durum wheat. Pollinations with maize were used in an attempt to produce haploid seedlings and, from these, fertile doubled haploids of durum wheats. Moreover, the effect of various concentrations and combinations of a synthetic auxin, 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D), kinetin, and an ethylene inhibitor, silver nitrate (AgNO₃), on embryo recovery were also investigated. Haploid seedlings were recovered from Triticum turgidum ssp. turgidum cv Rampton Rivet pollinated with maize following in-vivo treatment of ovaries with 2,4-D for 2 weeks and subsequent embryo culture. The recovery of haploid seedlings from T. turgidum ssp. durum cv. Wakona pollinated with maize necessitated the addition of AgNO₃, to the 2,4-D treatment. Overall, haploid seedlings were produced in 1.7% and 3.3% of pollinated florets for Rampton Rivet and Wakona respectively. The success of the present work represents a significant breakthrough for haploid production in durum wheats. Wide hybridization with maize followed by in-vivo treatment of ovaries with 2,4-D alone, or in combination with AgNO₃, may provide a widely-applicable method of haploid production in tetraploid wheats.     

Mixing of maize and wheat genomic DNA by somatic hybridization in regenerated sterile maize plants

Intergeneric somatic hybridization was performed between albino maize (Zea mays L.) protoplasts and mesophyll protoplasts of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by polyethylene glycol (PEG) treatments. None of the parental protoplasts were able to produce green plants without fusion. The maize cells regenerated only rudimentary albino plantlets of limited viability, and the wheat mesophyll protoplasts were unable to divide. PEG-mediated fusion treatments resulted in hybrid cells with mixed cytoplasm. Six months after fusion green embryogenic calli were selected as putative hybrids. The first-regenerates were discovered as aborted embryos. Regeneration of intact, green, maize-like plants needed 6 months of further subcultures on hormone-free medium. These plants were sterile, although had both male and female flowers. The cytological analysis of cells from callus tissues and root tips revealed 56 chromosomes, but intact wheat chromosomes were not observed. Using total DNA from hybrid plants, three RAPD primer combinations produced bands resembling the wheat profile. Genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) using total wheat DNA as a probe revealed the presence of wheat DNA islands in the maize chromosomal background. The increased viability and the restored green color were the most-significant new traits as compared to the original maize parent. Other intermediate morphological traits of plants with hybrid origin were not found.