Important photosynthetic contribution from the non-foliar green organs in cotton at the late growth stage |
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Authors: | Yuan-Yuan Hu Ya-Li Zhang Hong-Hai Luo Wei Li Riichi Oguchi Da-Yong Fan Wah Soon Chow Wang-Feng Zhang |
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Institution: | (1) The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Xinjiang Production and Construction Group, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, People’s Republic of China;(2) Division of Plant Science, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia;(3) State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environment, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, People’s of China; |
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Abstract: | Non-foliar green organs are recognized as important carbon sources after leaves. However, the contribution of each organ to
total yield has not been comprehensively studied in relation to the time-course of changes in surface area and photosynthetic
activity of different organs at different growth stages. We studied the contribution of leaves, main stem, bracts and capsule
wall in cotton by measuring their time-course of surface area development, O2 evolution capacity and photosynthetic enzyme activity. Because of the early senescence of leaves, non-foliar organs increased
their surface area up to 38.2% of total at late growth stage. Bracts and capsule wall showed less ontogenetic decrease in
O2 evolution capacity per area and photosynthetic enzyme activity than leaves at the late growth stage. The total capacity for
O2 evolution of stalks and bolls (bracts plus capsule wall) was 12.7 and 23.7% (total ca. 36.4%), respectively, as estimated
by multiplying their surface area by their O2 evolution capacity per area. We also kept the bolls (from 15 days after anthesis) or main stem (at the early full bolling
stage) in darkness for comparison with non-darkened controls. Darkening the bolls and main stem reduced the boll weight by
24.1 and 9%, respectively, and the seed weight by 35.9 and 16.3%, respectively. We conclude that non-foliar organs significantly
contribute to the yield at the late growth stage. |
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