Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture 36: 1-11, doi: 10.3897/ejfa.2024.118296
Effects of Na2CO3 simulated alkali stress on tradeoff strategies of individual and clonal traits of Leymus chinensis
Zhan-Wu Gao‡, Ji-Tao Zhang§, Ge Gao‡, Ying-Qi Qin‡, Ming Cao|, Feng Chen¶, Meng-Zhu Cai‡, Xin Li‡, Chen Chen‡, Zhao-Jie Wang#, Chun-Sheng Mu|, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi¤, Mohammad Javed Ansari«, Adnan Rasheed»‡ Baicheng Normal University, Baicheng, China§ Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China| Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China¶ Xi’an Shiyou University, Xian, China# Guilin Tourism Universty, Guilin, China¤ King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia« Hindu College Moradabad (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University Bareilly), Moradabad, India» Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China
Corresponding author: Zhao-Jie Wang ( queenie286@126.com ) Corresponding author: Chun-Sheng Mu ( gzw@bcnu.edu.cn ) Academic editor: Zienab F. R. Ahmed © Zhan-Wu Gao, Ji-Tao Zhang, Ge Gao, Ying-Qi Qin, Ming Cao, Feng Chen, Meng-Zhu Cai, Xin Li, Chen Chen, Zhao-Jie Wang, Chun-Sheng Mu, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Mohammad Javed Ansari, Adnan Rasheed. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Gao Z-W, Zhang J-T, Gao G, Qin Y-Q, Cao M, Chen F, Cai M-Z, Li X, Chen C, Wang Z-J, Mu C-S, Alharbi SA, Ansari MJ, Rasheed A (2024) Effects of Na2CO3 simulated alkali stress on tradeoff strategies of individual and clonal traits of Leymus chinensis. Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture 36: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3897/ejfa.2024.118296 |  |
Abstract
Alkali stress is a significant challenge across the globe which is posing serious threat to crop production and food security. This study was carried out to study the effect of different levels of alkali stress on growth and physiological traits of Leymus chinensis. The study was comprised of different levels of alkali stress; control (CK; 0 mmol·L-1), 25 and 50 mmol·L-1. The results showed that imposition of 50 mmol·L-1 alkali stress substantially reduced the photosynthetic capacity, relative water contents and accumulation of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in plant parts. Further, 50 mmol·L-1 alkali stress also reduced the above and below ground biomass, and severely inhibited the root growth. Moreover, increase in concentration of alkali stress inhibited clone components, tillering, tillering bud, and internode bud of Leymus chinensis. In conclusion the increasing concentration of alkali stress can reduce the growth and biomass production and nutrient accumulation of Leymus chinensis.
Keywords
Alkali stress, biomass proportion, nutrient concentration, relative height growth rate, nutrient concentration