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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 11-18.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb18110023

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Effects of LED Spectrum Treatments at in vitro Culture Stage on the Growth and Minituber Production of Potato Plantlets After Transplanting in Greenhouse

Chen Lili1, Wang Haoying2, Gong Xiaochen2, Xue Xuzhang3, Hu Yuegao2()   

  1. 1 College of Science & Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo Zhejiang 315300
    2 College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193
    3 Research Center for Intelligent Equipment in Agriculture, Beijing 100097
  • Received:2018-11-07 Revised:2019-02-20 Online:2020-02-25 Published:2020-02-22
  • Contact: Hu Yuegao E-mail:huyuegao@cau.edu.cn

Abstract:

The morphology of potato plantlets grown in vitro under different LED light sources varies obviously. To explore whether the variations will have lasting effects on potato plantlets’ growth after transplanting in greenhouse, a single-factor randomized block design test was conducted with 4-week-old potato plantlets grown in vitro under 100% red light (R), 100% blue light (B), 100% green light (G), 75% red light+ 25% blue light (RB), 45% red light+ 35% blue light+ 20% green light (RBG) and 100% white (CK) light spectrum being transplanted in greenhouse to observe their growth and tuberization performance. The results indicated that chlorophyll fluorescence Fv/Fm and qP, SPAD value and biomass accumulation of potato plantlets from B treatment were always higher than that of CK and other treatments; the biggest minituber dry weight and fresh weight and the proportion of effective minituber in B treatment were increased by 45.66%, 45.09% and 10.93%, respectively, compared with CK. R treatment increased the number of minituber per plantlet by 29.60% but decreased the proportion of effective minituber by 63.97%. The parameters including Fv/Fm, qP, qN, SPAD, biomass accumulation in different organs and minituber yield and yield composition of plantlets from combined spectrum RB and RBG showed no significant differences from that of CK. However, in terms of both growth and tuberization, plantlets from G treatment performed the worst after transplanting. Thus, the effects of monochromic red, blue and green LED spectrum on the growth and tuberization of potato plantlets grown in vitro continued after the plantlets’ transplanting in greenhouse, whereas the combined spectrum RB and RBG did not. Thus, in the cultivation of potato plantlets in vitro, monochromatic blue and red LED spectrum have potential application value as light sources to provide illumination and combined spectrum RB and RBG can be utilized as the alternatives of white light.

Key words: LED spectrum, tissue cultured potato plantlets, minituber production, potato plant growth

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