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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (12): 26-32.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb19010020

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Nitrogen Nutrition: Effects on Nutritional Function Characteristics and Grain Yield of Hulless Barley

Wei Bin1,2, Ma Zhanqin3   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000
    2Station for Popularizing Agricultural Technique of Deyang, Deyang Sichuan 618000
    3Station for Popularizing Agricultural Technique of Aba, Aba Sichuan 624000
  • Received:2019-01-04 Revised:2019-08-14 Online:2020-04-25 Published:2020-04-21

Abstract:

To confirm the key nutritional function characteristics affecting the productivity of hulless barley under different nitrogen conditions, taking ‘Zangqing2000’ as the test material, we studied the effects of nitrogen levels on nutritional function characteristics and grain yield. The results showed that: compared with the nitrogen-free treatment, nitrogen application could increase the grain yield, plant height (PH), relative growth rate (RGR) and specific leaf area (SLA) significantly, but decrease the root mass per unit leaf area (RPL) and leaf dry matter content (LDMC); nitrogen application level had a positive correlation with PH, RGR and SLA, and a negative correlation with RPL and LDMC; the grain yield of hulless barley continued to increase, but the growth rate of grain yield decreased with the increase of nitrogen application, so that there was a quadratic curve relationship between grain yield and nitrogen level (y=-171.25x 2+1327.3x+10, R 2=0.958, P小于0.05); meanwhile, there was a significantly positive linear relationship between grain yield and PH (y=43.026x-2596.6, R 2=0.8994, P小于0.05), RGR (y=7178.7x-150.66, R 2=0.5361, P小于0.05), SLA (y=6.4604x+413.3, R 2=0.4153, P小于0.05), but a negative linear relationship between grain yield and LDMC (y=-29.668x+4045.7, R 2=0.4488, P小于0.05), and the grain yield had non-significant correlation with RPL (y=-2025.4x+2746.4, R 2=0.0579, P大于0.05). Those results prove that: the grain yield is promoted by PH, RGR and SLA, and inhibited by LDMC, and has non-significant correlation with RPL. So, the nutritional function characteristics (PH, RGR, SLA and LDMC) could be considered marker features affecting the productivity of hulless barley at the species level.

Key words: nitrogen nutrition, hulless barley, nutritional function characteristics, grain yield

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