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Transpiration efficiency: insights from comparisons of C4 cereal species

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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
卷 72, 期 14, 页码 5221-5234

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab251

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Aquaporin; breeding; climate change; drought; maize; pearl millet; Pennisetum glaucum; rhizosphere; root hydraulics; soil hydraulics; Sorghum bicolor; Zea mays

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  1. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals (CRP-DC)
  2. Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA) ICARUS project (Improve Crops in Arid Regions and future climates) - Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-17-MPGA-0011]
  3. Pioneer
  4. ICRISAT

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The study reveals that maize has higher transpiration efficiency overall compared to pearl millet and sorghum, especially in high-clay soil under high vapor pressure deficit conditions. The source-sink balance also plays a significant role in driving variations in transpiration efficiency.
We have previously reported that there is a tight link between high transpiration efficiency (TE; shoot biomass per unit water transpired) and restriction of transpiration under high vapor pressure deficit (VPD). In this study, we examine other factors affecting TE among major C-4 cereals, namely species' differences, soil type, and source-sink relationships. We found that TE in maize (10 genotypes) was higher overall than in pearl millet (10 genotypes), and somewhat higher than in sorghum (16 genotypes). Overall, transpiration efficiency was higher in high-clay than in sandy soil under high VPD, but the effect was species-dependent with maize showing large variations in TE and yield across different soil types whilst pearl millet showed no variation in TE. This suggested that species fitness was specific to soil type. Removal of cobs drastically decreased TE in maize under high VPD, but removal of panicles did not have the same effect in pearl millet, suggesting that source-sink balance also drove variations in TE. We interpret the differences in TE between species as being accounted for by differences in the capacity to restrict transpiration under high VPD, with breeding history possibly having favored the source-sink balance in maize. This suggests that there is also scope to increase TE in pearl millet and sorghum through breeding. With regards to soil conditions, our results indicate that it appears to be critical to consider hydraulic characteristics and the root system together in order to better understand stomatal regulation and restriction of transpiration under high VPD. Finally, our results highlight the importance of sink strength in regulating transpiration/photosynthesis, and hence in influencing TE.

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