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Salinity reduces radiation absorption and use efficiency in soybean
Institution:1. Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA;2. USDA-ARS, George E. Brown, Jr., Salinity Laboratory, Riverside, CA 92507, USA;1. Botany Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt;2. Post-harvest and handling vegetables Res. Dept., Hort. Res. Inst., Agric. Res. Center, Giza, Egypt;1. Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;2. Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;1. Faculty of Life and Natural Sciences, University of Tiaret, 14000, Algeria;2. Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), Universitat Politècnica de València-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Avd. de los Naranjos s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain
Abstract:The potential rate of plant development and biomass accumulation under conditions free of environmental stress depends on the amount of radiation absorption and the efficiency of utilizing the absorbed solar energy to drive photosynthetic processes that produce biomass materials. Salinity, as a form of soil and water stress, generally has a detrimental effect on plant growth, and crops such as soybean are usually sensitive to salinity. Field and greenhouse experiments were conducted to determine soybean growth characteristics and the relative impact of salinity on radiation absorption and radiation-use efficiency (RUE) at a whole plant level. Cumulative absorption of photosynthetically active radiation (∑APAR) was estimated using hourly inputs of predicted canopy extinction coefficients and measured leaf area indices (LAI) and global solar radiation. On 110 days after planting, soybean plants grown under non-saline conditions in the field accumulated 583 MJ ∑APAR m?2. A 20% reduction in ∑APAR resulted from growing the plants in soil with a solution electrical conductivity (EC) of about 10 dS m?1. Soybeans grown under non-saline conditions in the field achieved a RUE of 1.89 g MJ?1 ∑APAR for above-ground biomass dry materials. The RUE reached only 1.08 g MJ?1 ∑APAR in the saline soil, about a 40% reduction from the non-saline control. Salinity also significantly reduced ∑APAR and RUE for soybeans in the greenhouse. The observed smaller plant and leaf sizes and darker green leaves under salinity stress were attributed to reductions in LAI and increases in unit leaf chlorophyll, respectively. Reductions in LAI exceeded small gains in leaf chlorophyll, which resulted in less total canopy chlorophyll per unit ground area. Analyzing salinity effect on plant growth and biomass production using the relative importance of ∑APAR and RUE is potentially useful because APAR and total canopy chlorophyll can be estimated with remote sensing techniques.
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