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Special Issue "Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture"

Submission Deadline: 10 June 2021 (closed)
Guest Editors
Prof. Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh
Prof. Masayuki Fujita, Kagawa University, Japan
Summary

Ensuring food security for the increasing population is one of the challenges for next decades. As frontiers of crop production, plant physiologists are the most responsible for the improvement of crop production steadily. However, there are several challenges which hindering crop production which includes various abiotic and biotic stresses as loss of soil productivity and natural biodiversity. With the present global climatic change, these abiotic stress factors are taking place more frequently than earlier times leading to the vulnerability of crop productivity, and creating challenges for the farming community to feed the ever-growing population of this universe. Exploring the physiological bases of plant stress tolerance is very important in developing plant stress tolerance. To address this issue researchers are working in understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms of abiotic stress responses and tolerance. A remarkable progress has also been made in developing crop varieties tolerant to environmental stress. This special issue is indented to bring together a galaxy of eminent experienced scientists to present latest developments in this field.

 

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

· Plant growth regulation

· Plant water relations

· Solute transport in plants

· Ion homeostasis

· Water and nutrient use efficiencies in plants

· Photosynthesis research

· Plant physiological responses to abiotic and biotic stress

· Molecular plant physiology

· Use of exogenous protectants in improving plant physiology

Keywords
Plant physiology; Crop production; Climate change; Abiotic stress; Agronomy; Plant genetics and breeding; Biotechnology in agriculture
Published Papers
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  • Construction and Functional Analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 Vector of FAD2 Gene Family in Soybean
  • Zhifeng Xiao, Yukun Jin, Qi Zhang, Abraham Lamboro, Baozhu Dong, Zhuoyu Yang, Piwu Wang*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.2, pp. 349-361, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.017451
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Soybean oleic acid content is one of the important indexes to evaluate the quality of soybean oil. In the synthesis pathway of soybean fatty acids, the FAD2 gene family is the key gene that regulates the production of linoleic acid from soybean oleic acid. In this study, CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology was used to regulate FAD2 gene expression. Firstly, the CRISPR/Cas9 single knockout vectors GmFAD2-1B and GmFAD2-2C and double knockout vectors GmFAD2-2A-3 were constructed. Then, the three vectors were transferred into the recipient soybean variety Jinong 38 by Agrobacterium-mediated cotyledon node transformation, and the mutant plants were obtained. Functional analysis… More
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  • Optimization of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Maize
  • Mengtong Liu1, Yangyang Zhou1, Tongyu Liu1, Jianyu Lu1, Jing Qu2, Shuyan Guan2,*, Yiyong Ma2,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.2, pp. 363-374, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.016325
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Immature embryos of inbred maize (Zea mays) lines (H8183, H8184, and H8185) were used for Agrobacterium infection. We used the β-glucuronidase gene (GUS) as the target gene and the glufosinate resistance gene (bar) as the selection marker. We conducted research on several aspects, such as different genotypes, coculture conditions, screening agent concentrations, and concentrations of indole-3-butytric acid (IBA), 6-benzylaminopurine (6-BA), and ascorbic acid (Vc) in the differentiation medium. We optimized the genetic transformation system, and the obtained results indicated that among the three lines studied, the induction rate of H8185 was the highest at 93.2%, followed by H8184, with H8183… More
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  • Transcriptomic Analysis of the Tolerance Response to Dehydration and Rehydration in Wheat Seedlings
  • Ping Zhang1, Zhiyou Kong2, Junna Liu1, Yongjiang Liu1, Qianchao Wang1, Xiuju Huan1, Li Li1, Yunfeng Jiang3, Peng Qin1,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.2, pp. 375-394, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.016358
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Drought is the main abiotic stress that restricts wheat production. The rapid development of sequencing technology and its widespread application to various fields have revealed the structural characteristics and regulation of related genes through gene expression analysis. Here, we studied responses of wheat plants under drought and re-watering conditions, using morphological and physiological indicators. Moreover, a transcriptome analysis was conducted on Jingmai 12, a drought-resistant wheat strain, to explore the mechanism underlying the response of drought-resistant wheat seedlings to drought stress at the transcriptome level. Drought stress caused morphological and physiological changes in both drought-resistant and -sensitive varieties, but to… More
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  • A Study on Genotype-by-Environment Interaction Analysis for Agronomic Traits of Maize Genotypes Across Huang-Huai-Hai Region in China
  • Haiwang Yue1, Jianwei Wei1, Junliang Xie1, Shuping Chen1, Haicheng Peng1, Hongmei Cao2, Junzhou Bu1,*, Xuwen Jiang3,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.1, pp. 57-81, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.017308
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Facing the trend of increasing population, how to increase maize grain yield is a very important issue to ensure food security. In this study, 28 nationally approved maize hybrids were evaluated across 24 different climatic conditions for two consecutive years (2018–2019). The purpose of this study was to select high-yield with stable genotypes and identify important agronomic traits for maize breeding program improvement. The results of this study showed that the genotype ╳ environment interaction effects of the 12 evaluated agronomic traits was highly significant (P < 0.001). We introduced a novel multi-trait genotype-ideotype distance index (MGIDI) to select genotypes… More
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  • In Vitro-Propagation of Agave tequilana Weber cv. azul in a Temporary Immersion System
  • Otilio Vázquez-Martínez1, Héctor Gordon Núñez-Palenius1,*, Eugenio M. Pérez-Molphe Balch2,*, Mauricio Valencia-Posadas1, Luis Pérez-Moreno1, Graciela M. L. Ruiz-Aguilar1, M. Gómez-Lim3
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.1, pp. 83-96, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.017281
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract In Mexico, there is a need to produce large quantities of plantlets for the establishment and replanting of blue (cv. azul) agave production areas. Most of these plots are within the origin denomination area (DOT, Spanish acronym) of the distilled product of this plant, known as tequila. The objective of this study was to develop an in vitro-propagation protocol for Agave tequilana Weber cv. azul using segmented stems in both: solid and liquid media. A disinfection and in vitro technique were developed to obtain shoots, through plantlets collected in commercial plots, which attained 100% surface-disinfection and budding rate. At the… More
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  • General and Exact Inbreeding Coefficient of Maize Synthetics Derived from Three-Way Line Hybrids
  • Alejandro Ibarra-Sánchez, Juan Enrique Rodríguez-Pérez, Aureliano Peña-Lomelí, Clemente Villanueva-Verduzco, Jaime Sahagún-Castellanos*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.91, No.1, pp. 33-43, 2022, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2022.016136
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Synthetic varieties (SVs) are populations generated by randomly mating their parents. They are a good alternative for low-input farmers who grow onions, maize, and other allogamous crops since the seed produced by a SV does not change from one generation to the next. Although SV progenitors are commonly pure lines, in this case a synthetic (SynTC) whose parents are t three-way line crosses, a very common type of maize hybrid grown in Mexico, is studied. The aim was to develop a general and exact equation for the inbreeding coefficient of a SynTC SynTC because of its relationship with… More
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  • Identification of Polymorphic Markers by High-Resolution Melting (HRM) Assay for High-Throughput SNP Genotyping in Maize
  • Zhigang Shang1,2, Yongzhe Zhu3, Xinmei Guo1,2, Meiai Zhao1,4,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.6, pp. 1711-1725, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015048
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  • Abstract The development of next generation sequencing (NGS) and high throughput genotyping are important techniques for the QTL mapping and genetic analysis of different crops. High-resolution melting (HRM) is an emerging technology used for detecting single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in various species. However, its use is still limited in maize. The HRM analysis was integrated with SNPs to identify three types of populations (NIL population, RIL population and natural population), and the useful tags were screened. The patterns of temperature-shifted melting curves were investigated from the HRM analysis, and compared these with the kit. Among all 48 pairs of primers, 10 pairs… More
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  • Knowledge Mapping of Opuntia Milpa Alta Since 1998: A Scientometric Analysis
  • Meixiang Chen1, Hong Yang1, Zhengda Song1, Yonghua Gu1,#,*, Yuhong Zheng1,2, Jiangwei Zhu3, Aiwu Wang4, Li Fu5,#,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.5, pp. 1507-1518, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015723
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Opuntia Milpa Alta is a cactus cultivated, domesticated, hybridized and selected from the plant Opuntia ficus-indica by Mexican agricultural experts, which can be used as fruit and vegetable. Opuntia Milpa Alta leaves and fruit are superior to wild varieties and suitable for storage and transportation. In 1998, Opuntia Milpa Alta was introduced to China from Mexico by the Quality Product Development Center of the Ministry of Agriculture of China. Up to now, the Opuntia Milpa Alta has been cultivated on a certain scale in China. This study aims to identify the research progress and development trends of Opuntia Milpa Alta… More
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  • Epi-Brassinolide Positively Affects Chlorophyll Content and Dark-Reaction Enzymes of Maize Seedlings
  • Yuanfen Gao, Tinglan Jiang, Yin Xiang, Xuewu He, Zhen Zhang, Shengjuan Wen, Junjie Zhang*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.5, pp. 1465-1476, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.014811
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  • Abstract Brassinosteroids participate in many physiological processes in plants; however, their regulatory roles on the activities of the enzymes involved in dark phase of photosynthesis remains elusive. In this study, detached leaves and protoplasts of maize seedlings were treated with epi-brassinolide (EBR) and brassinazole followed by the determination of the contents of chlorophyll (a+b) and soluble sugars, and the activity of dark reaction enzymes and the expression of the relevant genes. The results showed that chlorophyll (a+b) content increased by 7.4% under 0.1 μM EBR treatment for 48 h; furthermore, chlorophyll (a+b) content increased by 34% in detached leaves that were… More
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  • Quantitative Proteomics Analysis Identifies the Potential Mechanism Underlying Yellow-Green Leave Mutant in Wheat
  • Wei Zheng, Zheng Shi, Mei Long, Yuncheng Liao*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1147-1159, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015916
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  • Abstract Enhancing photosynthesis efficiency is considered as one of the most crucial targets during wheat breeding. However, the molecular basis underlying high photosynthesis efficiency is not well understood up to now. In this study, we investigated the protein expression profile of wheat Jimai5265yg mutant, which is a yellow-green mutant with chlorophylls b deficiency but high photosynthesis efficiency. Though TMT-labeling quantitative proteomics analysis, a total of 72 differential expressed proteins (DEPs) were obtained between the mutant and wild type (WT). GO analysis found that they significantly enriched in thylakoid membrane, pigment binding, magnesium chelatase activity and response to light intensity. KEGG analysis… More
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  • Analysis of Growth and Productivity of Green Chickpea Using Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilization
  • Maricela Apáez-Barrios1, José Alberto Salvador Escalante-Estrada2, Patricio Apáez-Barrios1,*, Yurixhi Atenea Raya-Montaño3, Juan Carlos Álvarez-Hernández1
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1193-1203, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.014567
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  • Abstract Chickpea contains high levels of protein, vitamins and minerals. Acceptable chickpea yield is the result of meeting nitrogen and phosphorus requirements. The effect of appropriately meeting such requirements reflects on growth and can easily be evaluated using growth analysis. This research determined: (a) The effect of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on phenology, net assimilation rate, number of green leaves, leaf area, leaf area index and leaf area duration; (b) Green chickpea yield and number of pods due to fertilization; and (c) The combination of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization that yields the most net revenue. Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization was evaluated;… More
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  • Suppression Effects on Pineapple Soil-Borne Pathogens by Crotalaria juncea, Dolomitic Lime and Plastic Mulch Cover on MD-2 Hybrid Cultivar
  • Luis Alfonso Aguilar Pérez1,*, Daniel Nieto Ángel1,*, Moisés Roberto Vallejo Pérez2, Daniel Leobardo Ochoa Martínez1, David Espinosa Victoria3, Andrés Rebolledo Martinez4, Abel Rebouças São José5
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1205-1216, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015109
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  • Abstract The development and implementation of sustainable and environmentally friendly agricultural practices are indispensable as alternatives to pesticide use and to keep populations of soil-borne plant pathogens at levels that do not affect crop productivity. The present research evaluates the incidence of soil-borne phytopathogens on the pineapple variety MD-2, which was subjected to different treatments: Incorporation of Crotalaria juncea into the soil (organic amendment), application of dolomitic lime to soil (inorganic amendment), and the use of plastic mulch covering the soil. During the crop cycle (15 months), the following variables were evaluated: plant height (cm), fruit weight (kg·plant−1 ), crop yield… More
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  • Correlation Analysis of New Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] Gene Gm15G117700 with Oleic Acid
  • Shuo Qu1, Yaolei Jiao2, Lamboro Abraham2, Piwu Wang1,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1177-1192, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.015206
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  • Abstract The fatty acid dehydrogenase gene plays an important role in regulating the oleic acid content in soybean. Genome-wide association study screened out soybean oleic acid related gene Gm15G117700. A fragment size of 693bp was obtained by PCR amplification of the gene and, it was connected by seamless cloning technology to the pMD18T cloning vector. Based on the gene sequence cloned, bioinformatic analysis of gene protein was performed. The overexpression vector of Gm15G117700 and the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing vector were constructed. The positive plants were obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of soybean cotyledon nodes and T2 plants were identified by conventional PCR,… More
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  • Genome-Wide GRAS Gene Family Analysis Reveals the Classification, Expression Profiles in Melon (Cucumis melo L.)
  • Yanfei Bi1, Bin Wei1, Ying Meng2, Zhongzhao Li2, Zhenghui Tang1, Feng Yin3, Chuntao Qian2,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.4, pp. 1161-1175, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.014396
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract Melon (Cucumis melo), belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, is a globally important economic crop. GRAS (GAI, RGA, SCR) genes, which are a type of transcription factor, play a critical role in plant growth and development, including processes such as radial root patterning, light signalling, abiotic/biotic stress, axillary shoot meristem formation, and phytohormone (gibberellin) signal transduction. In this study, the GRAS family in melon was analysed comprehensively with respect to chromosomal location, motif prediction, gene structure, and expression pattern. A total of 37 GRAS genes were first identified in melon, after which a phylogenetic tree was built with the GRAS genes… More
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  • Effects of Exogenous α-Ketoglutaric Acid on 2-Acetyl-1-Pyrroline, Yield Formation and Grain Quality Characters of Aromatic Rice
  • Bin Du1, Qixia Wu1, Shuochen Jiang1, Dingyue Zhang1, Yue Qiao1, Yimei Xie2, Jianlong Xu3,*, Jianqiang Zhu1,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.2, pp. 437-447, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.012903
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract The improvement of grain quality in aromatic rice is very important for farmer to increase their income. Present study was conducted with a two-year field experiment and three aromatic rice cultivars in order to study the effects of exogenous α-ketoglutaric acid on yield formation, grain quality characters and the biosynthesis of 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP, key component of aromatic rice’s fragrance) in aromatic rice. At heading stage, 0.50 mmol L–1 (T1) and 1.00 mmol L–1 (T2) α-ketoglutaric acid solutions were overhead sprinkle to aromatic rice plants, respectively while the treatment which was overhead sprinkled with distilled water was set as control (CK).… More
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  • Character Identification of an Early Flowering Mutant
  • Zhenzhong Jiang1, Peng Jiao1, Zhuo Qi1, He Zhao2, Jing Qu2, Siyan Liu1, Dan Yao1, Piwu Wang2, Shuyan Guan1,*, Yiyong Ma2,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.2, pp. 449-459, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2021.013247
  • （This article belongs to this Special Issue: Plant Physiology for Crop Production and Sustainable Agriculture)
  • Abstract The concept of gene-function-genetic trait was introduced to explore the effects of early flowering on the growth and development of maize at the jointing stage and to obtain early flowering mutants using ethyl methanesulfonate mutagenesis. First, we studied gene expression, phytohormones, and lignin content to explore the physiological peculiarities of the early flowering mutant. Then we analyzed the genetic features of the mutants during the jointing stage by measuring physiological and biochemical indices of drought tolerance. The results showed that the photosynthetic rate of the mutant was significantly higher than that of the control and the rate of accumulation of… More
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  • The Enhancement of Soil Fertility, Dry Matter Transport and Accumulation, Nitrogen Uptake and Yield in Rice via Green Manuring
  • Tianyuan Li1,#, Saif Ullah1,#, He Liang1, Izhar Ali1, Quan Zhao1, Anas Iqbal1, Shanqing Wei1, Tariq Shah2, Yuqiong Luo1, Ligeng Jiang1,*
  • Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.90, No.1, pp. 223-243, 2021, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2020.012065
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  • Abstract Readily available chemical fertilizers have resulted in a decline in the use of organic manure (e.g., green manures), a traditionally sustainable source of nutrients. Based on this, we applied urea at the rate of 270 kg ha−1 with and without green manure in order to assess nitrogen (N) productivity in a double rice cropping system in 2017. In particular, treatment combinations were as follows: winter fallow rice-rice (WF-R-R), milk vetch rice-rice (MV-R-R), oil-seed rape rice-rice (R-R-R) and potato crop rice-rice (P-R-R). Results revealed that green manure significantly (p ≤ 0.05) improved the soil chemical properties and net soil organic carbon… More
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