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2021

Decline of seedling phosphorus use efficiency in the heterotic pool of flint maize breeding lines since the onset of hybrid breeding

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Improved management and breeding increased maize (Zea mays L.) yields over the last century, but nutritional efficiency was usually not the focus. This study investigates whether old and recently released flint and dent maize seedlings vary in the phosphorus (P) acquisition and utilization. P use efficiency (PUE) and related traits were measured and compared at two P levels in a calcareous soil. PUE and P acquisition efficiency (PAE) from founder flints to elite flints declined over the last decades. This was associated with smaller root systems, reduced ability to exploit external P, decreased rhizosphere pH and shorter root hairs in low P. Comparing flints with doubled haploid landraces (DH_LR), old and elite dents and hybrids revealed that dents started to acquire exogenous P earlier and had improved PUE. Most DH_LRs had similar PUE as elite flints. When evaluating root traits associated with P efficiency, seed P was also critical, and it is important to stack different root traits to optimize PUE, P utilization efficiency (PUtE) and PAE in breeding programmes. The root hair length, the ability to acidify the rhizosphere and the root diameter in flint and dent pools may be utilized to improve P use in maize germplasm.

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Journal of agronomy and crop science, 207 (2021), 5, 857-872. https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12514. ISSN: 1439-037X

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@article{Li2021, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16838}, doi = {10.1111/jac.12514}, author = {Li, Xuelian and Mang, Melissa and Piepho, Hans‐Peter et al.}, title = {Decline of seedling phosphorus use efficiency in the heterotic pool of flint maize breeding lines since the onset of hybrid breeding}, journal = {Journal of agronomy and crop science}, year = {2021}, }

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