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Acta Prataculturae Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 177-188.DOI: 10.11686/cyxb2020168

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Effects of drought stress on yield and dry matter accumulation and distribution of Avena sativa cv. Qingyan No.1

Kai-qiang LIU(), Wen-hui LIU(), Zhi-feng JIA, Guo-ling LIANG, Xiang MA   

  1. Key Laboratory of Superior Forage Germplasm in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau,Qinghai Academy of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine,Qinghai University,Xining 810016,China
  • Received:2020-04-13 Revised:2020-07-08 Online:2021-03-20 Published:2021-03-09
  • Contact: Wen-hui LIU

Abstract:

This study aimed to clarify the response of Avena sativa cv. Qingyan No. 1 to different drought stress treatments during crop development. We set up a pot experiment comprising different drought stress intensities (75%, 60%, 45% and 30% field water capacity) and times (0, 1, 2 and 3 times) with respect to crop development, to understand the effects on dry matter accumulation and allocation to plant organs and the changes in yield and yield components. Our results indicated that the plant traits were significantly decreased were length of spikelets (Ls), seed number per spikelet (SNs), seed weight per inflorescence (SWi), hundred kernel weight (HKW) and yield. Number of spikelets (Ns) and seed number per inflorescence (SNi) increased or decreased in different treatments, but empty floret number (Ef) did not show any significant difference between treatments. Dry matter accumulation was inhibited by drought stress, and the proportional allocation to stems and roots was higher than to spikelets under drought stress. The overall effects of differing severity of water deficit were as follows: Imposition of drought three times, moderate and severe stress intensity had the greatest influence. With respect to timing of drought, stress applied at seedling-joint stage, booting-heading stage and flowering-milk stage drought (SM) and seedling-joint stage, booting-heading stage (SH) had the greatest influence. Correlation analysis and path analysis of various indicators found that Ns, SNi, SNs, SWi, HKW, Ls, dry weight of spikelets, dry weight of stem, dry weight of root, dry weight of leaf, spikelet distribution index and yield as having significant positive correlations, with correlation coefficients ranging from 0.368 to 0.922. The stem distribution index, root distribution index and leaf distribution index were negatively correlated with yield, with correlation coefficients ranging from -0.673 to -0.299. Ef displayed a small non-significant negative correlation with yield (-0.021). Path analysis found that SWi, HKW and SNi had important effects on increase of oat yield.

Key words: oat, drought stress, yield, dry matter accumulation and distribution