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Nitrogen application enhanced the expression of developmental plasticity of root systems triggered by mild drought stress in rice

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Background

The promoted root growth under developmental plasticity triggered specifically by mild drought stress (MDS) is known to contribute to maintained water uptake and dry matter production (DMP).

Aims

To examine whether the expression of developmental plasticity of root systems and its contribution to DMP would be affected by the levels of nitrogen (N) application.

Methods

Two genotypes (CSSL50 derived from Nipponbare/Kasalath cross and Nipponbare) were grown under soil moisture gradients with a line source sprinkler system. Three N fertilizer treatments were used; 25 (low), 75 (standard) and 150 kg N ha−1 (high) in 2009 and 60 (low), 120 (standard) and 180 kg N ha−1 (high) in 2011.

Results

Across varying N level treatments, there were no significant differences in any of the traits examined between the two genotypes under well-watered and severe drought stress conditions. In contrast, under MDS conditions (15–25 % w/w of soil moisture content (SMC) in 2009 and 17–25 % w/w of SMC in 2011), CSSL50 showed greater DMP than Nipponbare. The difference, however, varied with N level treatments since CSSL50’s greater root system development under MDS, was more pronounced at standard and high N levels than at low N level than it was for Nipponbare.

Conclusions

N application enhanced the expression of plasticity in root system development at standard and high N levels as compared with low N level under MDS conditions, which contributed to the maintenance of DMP.

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Abbreviations

CSSLs:

Chromosome segment substitution lines

DAT:

Days after transplanting

SMC:

Soil moisture content

W:

Water

N:

Nitrogen

G:

Genotype

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Roel R. Suralta of the Philippine Rice Research Institute for a critical review and useful comments on our manuscript, and Professor Joyce Cartagena and Mr. Nathan Hamlitsch of Nagoya University for English editing. This research was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.22405042) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and partially supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)/Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS).

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    Thiem Thi Tran, Moe Takeda, Daniel Menge, Shiro Mitsuya & Akira Yamauchi

  2. International Corporation Center for Agricultural Education, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan

    Mana Kano-Nakata & Yoshiaki Inukai

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Tran, T.T., Kano-Nakata, M., Takeda, M. et al. Nitrogen application enhanced the expression of developmental plasticity of root systems triggered by mild drought stress in rice. Plant Soil 378, 139–152 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-013-2013-5

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