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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (25): 59-65.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2023-0798

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Effects of Rain Shelter Cultivation on Growth, Hormones and Yield of Line Pepper in Sichuan Basin

ZHANG Zejin(), LIANG Ying, TANG Li()   

  1. Horticulture Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Vegetable Germplasm Innovation and Variety Improvement Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 610066
  • Received:2023-11-21 Revised:2024-07-05 Online:2024-09-05 Published:2024-08-27

Abstract:

To investigate the effects of sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation on the growth, hormones, and yield of chili pepper ‘Sichuan 20’ in the Sichuan basin, and clarify the influencing mechanism, we set up sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation treatment and field control treatment, measured the height of chili pepper plants and the content of endogenous hormones in the apical tissues of chili pepper plants in the two treatments, and conducted transcriptome sequencing and qRT-PCR validation of related genes. The results showed that there was no significant difference in chili pepper plant height in the early period of sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation, and the plant height in the middle and late periods of sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation was 1.13 and 1.5 times that of the field control treatment, respectively. The yield per plant in the sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation treatment was 74.9% of that in the field control treatment. After sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation, the content of gibberellin was 1.29 times that of the field control treatment, and the content of jasmonic acid was 63.3% of that of the field control treatment. GO analysis showed that the two treatments were significantly enriched in biological functions related to stress response and defense response and were significantly enriched in molecular functions related to adenosine nucleotide binding, adenosine diphosphate binding, and guanosine diphosphate binding. KEGG pathway analysis showed that compared with the sheltered rain-avoiding cultivation treatment, the field control treatment of chili pepper in the sesquiterpene biosynthesis metabolic pathway had four genes related to gibberellin degradation, CaGA2ox1.1(Gibberellin 2-beta-dioxygenase 1, T459_20483), CaGA2ox1.2 (Gibberellin 2-beta-dioxygenase 1, T459_24753), CaGA2ox8(Gibberellin 2-beta-dioxygenase 8, T459_05864), CaGRP3(Gibberellin-regulated protein 3, T459_06266). After the installation of facilities for rain protection cultivation in the Sichuan basin, the expression level of the gene for degradation of gibberellin at the top of the chili pepper decreased, while the content of gibberellin increased, causing the excessive growth of chili pepper, ultimately leading to a lower yield of chili pepper in the facilities for rain protection cultivation than in the field cultivation.

Key words: line pepper, rain shelter cultivation, hormones, yield