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... Two pot experiments have been conducted to study separately the influence of two factors on applied P utilization by four crops: flax (Linum usitatissimitm, L., cv. ‘Redwood’), wheat (Triticum vulgare L., cv. ‘Manitou’), rape (Brassica napus L., cv. ‘Tanka’), and buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench). These crops vary greatly in their ability to utilize P from band or pelletlike phosphate applic ...
... Remote sensing techniques supply useful crop information in large area crop survey programs. In such programs, however, the spectral and spatial resolution, measurement geometry, and environmental correction cap abilities have been limited by the fixed and truly remote nature of the sensor platform. To extend the applications of existing systems, or to use new systems, some workers have started sm ...
... Transitional grassland/forest light soils in Saskatchewan are often deficient in Cu. The high cost of micronutrient fertilizers necessitates extreme care in identifying micronutrient deficiencies and selecting effective products and methods of application. Comparison of tissue and grain or seed analysis for spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), canola (Brassica napus L.), and flax (Linum usitatissi ...
... Recessive genetic male-sterility has been widely used to facilitate crossing in recurrent selection programs in autogamous crop species. Dominant genetic male-sterility, on the other hand, has not been widely used. Mass and half-sib family selection schemes have been described for the dominant male-sterile program. Our objective was to describe S₁ family recurrent selection schemes and expected se ...
... Osmotic adjustment and changes in cell wall elastic modulus are important processes that enable plants to maintain physiological activity and prolong leaf survival as plant water deficits increase. This paper describes a simple and practical technique to produce tissue water-release curves that allows many measurements of osmotic potential (π), elastic modulus (ε), and apoplastic water fraction (A ...
... LEA proteins are late embryogenesis abundant in the seeds of many higher plants and probably universal in occurrence in plant seeds. LEA mRNAs and proteins can be induced to appear at other stages in the plant's life by desiccation stress and/or treatment with the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). A role it, protecting plant structures during water loss is likely for these proteins, with ABA func ...
... Several investigators have questioned the use of the ¹⁵N natural-abundance method of estimating N₂ fixation because of variability in soil δ¹⁵N and small differences between the δ¹⁵N of soil N and atmospheric N. Investigations were conducted to compare the ¹⁵N natural-abundance and ¹⁵N-isotope-dilution methods for estimating N₂ fixation of field-grown pea (Pisum sativum L.) and lentil (Lens culina ...
... Crop seeds and seedlings are exposed to drought, salinity and/or low soil temperatures in some areas. Therefore, the combined effects of these stresses on germination and emergence is of considerable interest. A growth room study was conducted to determine the effects of matric and osmotic potential at different temperatures on the rate and total number of seedling emergence for wheat (Triticum ae ...
... Growth chamber experiments of canola (Brassica napus L.) and spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were conducted using three soils testing low in extractable sulfate (9-12 mg/kg). Experiments were designed to determine how the three soils compared in plant available sulfur (S) and to test the effects of various rates of potassium sulfate (K2SO4) and gypsum on the elemental composition and dry matte ...
... If different P fertilizers have been applied for a long time, it is difficult to measure the P availability. The objectives of this study were to investigate (i) the kinetics of soil P release by electroultrafiltration (EUF), (ii) extractable P using different soil extractants, (iii) plant P uptake, and (iv) the importance of considering both the P release kinetics and extractable P for plant P up ...
... The effect of long-term (months) exposure to low temperature (5 degrees C) on growth,photosynthesis, and carbon metabolism was studied in spring and winter cultivars of wheat (Triticum aestivum) and rape (Brassica napus). Cold-grown winter rape and winter wheat maintained higher net assimilation rates and higher in situ CO2 exchange rates than the respective cold-grown spring cultivars. In particu ...
... Ubiquitin is a ubiquitous protein involved in targeting proteins for degradation. Maize pollen was previously reported (Callis and Bedinger 1994) to show extremely low levels of ubiquitin monomer, and developmental significance was attributed to this surprising feature of maize pollen. However, we had previously shown (Muschietti et al. 1994) that tomato pollen had high levels of ubiquitin monomer ...
... The proportional contribution of atmospheric N2 to the N nutrition of lupin (Patm) was estimated in a field experiment following addition of NH4Cl of KNO3 to unconfined microplots (1.5 m2) at 2.5 g N m-2 (10 atom% 15N). The integrated 15N enrichment, or 'mean pool abundance', of nitrate extracted from 0- to 15-cm samples taken under the lupin crop on eight occasions between 28 and 190 days after s ...
... The RbpA3 protein of Anabaena variabilis contains one RNA-binding domain with a carboxy-terminal glycine-rich domain. Levels of two transcripts of the rbpA3 gene were differentially regulated by growth temperature. The RbpA3 protein is related to the RbpC protein within the group of cyanobacterial Rbps. ...
... The survival of the mycobiota on pod and stem debris of soybean produced in a no-tillage system with cover crops of alfalfa, canola, rye, or wheat or with no cover was studied during 1994 and 1995. Fiberglass mesh bags containing pods and stems were assayed every 28 to 31 days to determine the isolation frequency of fungi. Over 90% of the 11,906 isolates obtained were members of the Deuteromycotin ...
Helianthus annuus; Brassica napus; measurement; chemical degradation; dose response; jasmonic acid; gene expression; Triticum aestivum; Nicotiana tabacum; esters; stereochemistry; enzyme activity; chemical structure; seed germination; transgenic plants; cotyledons; proteinase inhibitors; reporter genes; chemical constituents of plants; chlorophyll; beta-glucuronidase
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... The importance of the two chiral centers at C-3 and C-7 in the molecular structure of jasmonic acid in plant responses was investigated. We separated methyl jasmonate (MeJA) into (3R)- and (3S)-isomers with a fixed stereochemistry at C-3, but epimerization at C-7 is possible. The four isomers of the nonepimerizable analog 7-methyl MeJA were synthesized. These six esters and their corresponding aci ...
... Enhanced corn (Zea mays L.) yield responses to rotation in notill systems may be due to the types and amounts of surface-placed plant residue. Research in 1989, 1990, and 1995 evaluated no-till corn yield response to various preceding crops and examined whether inrow residue removal affected no-till corn response to rotation crops. The soil was an imperfectly drained loam (medium, mixed, weakly to ...
... A cDNA library made from mRNA of Al-treated roots of an Al-sensitive wheat (Triticum aestivum cv Victory) cultivar was screened with a degenerate oligonucleotide probe derived from the partial amino acid sequence of the Al-induced protein TAl-18. Of seven clones that initially hybridized with the probe, one encoded a novel 1,3-beta-glucanase having a calculated molecular weight of 46.3 and an isoe ...
Brassica napus; Triticum aestivum; crop yield; nitrogen; nutrient uptake; urea; protein content; seed oils; vigor; seed productivity; application rate; chemical constituents of plants; Western Australia
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... The seed yield response of canola (Brassica napus L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to application of nitrogen (N), applied as urea (46% N), was measured in two field experiments in south Western Australia. Wheat produced significantly more seed than canola at all levels of applied N fertilizer, including the no-N control. There was a small (<10%) wheat grain yield increase to applied N fertili ...
... Several controlled environmental and field experiments were carried out to define the critical nitrogen dilution curve for winter oilseed rape, cultivar Goeland. This curve is described by the following power equation: N = 4.48 W(-0.25), where N is the total nitrogen concentration in the shoot biomass and W the shoot biomass. This curve has been validated over the range of shoot dry matter of 0.88 ...
... A highly purified preparation of uridine 5'-diphosphate (UDP)-glucose (Glc) dehydrogenase (DH; EC 1.1.1.22) has been characterized from soybean (Glycine max L.) nodules. The enzyme had native and subunit molecular masses of approximately 272 and 50 kD, respectively. UDP-Glc DH displayed typical hyperbolic substrate kinetics and had Km values for UDP-Glc and NAD+ of 0.05 and 0.12 mM, respectively. ...
interspecific variation; application rate; seedlings; nutrient uptake; Triticum aestivum; Brassica napus; field experimentation; phosphorus; triple superphosphate; roots; rock phosphate; Western Australia
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... A glasshouse study, using soil collected from two sites, was undertaken to compare how 30-day-old seedlings of canola (Brassica napus) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) utilized phosphorus (P) from freshly-applied (current) triple superphosphate (TSP), and TSP and rock phosphate [North Carolina and Queensland (Duchess) apatites] (RP) applied in field experiments 11 years previously (previous P). The P ...
Triticum aestivum; Vicia faba; Cicer arietinum; Brassica napus; Lens culinaris; Lupinus albus; Lupinus angustifolius; nutrient content; phosphorus; alkaline soils; field experimentation; nutrient requirements; residual effects; crop yield; Western Australia
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... Phosphorus (P) is a major deficiency of soils of south-western Australia (WA). The fertilizer P requirements are not known for grain legumes being evaluated for neutral to alkaline, fine textured soils in WA. To rectify this, glasshouse and field experiments were undertaken to compare the responses of several grain legume species, wheat and canola to applications of single superphosphate and the r ...
... Cell walls, prepared from the stems of wheat, maize, lucerne and rape and from timothy grass, were degraded using a commercial cellulase enzyme preparation. Timothy and lucerne were extensively degraded (60-70% loss of dry matter) while dry matter losses from the more lignified maize, rape and wheat samples were substantially less (30-40%). Residues obtained after 6 and 72 h degradation and origin ...
... A transference chamber was developed to measure the osmotic water permeability coefficient (P(os)) in protoplasts 40 to 120 micrometer in diameter. The protoplast was held by a micropipette and submitted to a steep osmotic gradient created in the transference chamber. P(os) was served from the changes in protoplast dimensions, as measured using a light microscope. Permeabilities were in the range ...
... The efficiency of fenced pitfall traps for estimating the density of commonly occurring epigeal predatory beetles was examined using mark-release-recapture. Most beetles of those recovered were recaptured within one week of their release. For seven of the ten species tested recapture rates were over 70%, with higher rates for the larger species. The predatory arthropod species composition captured ...
... The floristic diversity and the vertical distribution of the weed seedbank were studied in ridge tillage (RT) and conventional tillage (CT) systems in clay and clay loam soils. Viable seedbank populations were monitored during 3 yr using germination in a greenhouse. Ridge-tilled fields had a larger soil seedbank (2,992 seeds m⁻⁻²) than moldboard-plowed fields (1,481 seeds m⁻⁻²) in the top 15 cm. T ...
... There is still disagreement about whether crop growth rate or soil nitrate concentration control nitrogen absorption by crops under field conditions. The influence of these factors on the control of N uptake rate was examined in the absence of water stress, using data on dry matter production, above-ground nitrogen accumulation and soil nitrate concentration from several N-fertilizer experiments o ...
Plenodomus lingam; Hordeum vulgare; tillage; crop residues; sowing; Pisum sativum; fungal diseases of plants; Triticum aestivum; Brassica napus; field experimentation; degradation; incidence; crop rotation; virulence; roots; shoots; Alberta
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... The influence of tillage regime on the decomposition of shoot and root residues of canola (Brassica napus, Brassica rapa) infested with the virulent strain of Leptosphaeria maculans and disease levels was evaluated from 1993 to 1997, near Beaverlodge, Alberta. Fall mold-board ploughing in October 1993 was most effective at reducing the amount of canola residue, especially for the first 2 years. Re ...
... Powders from germinated seedlings of wheat, barley, rapeseed, maize, and linola synthesized low molecular weight flavor esters in an organic medium (hexane). Direct esterification of acetic, butyric, and caproic acids, with ethanol, butanol, isopentanol, or (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol was achieved. Of the systems examined, germinated rapeseed showed the highest degree of flavor synthesis. (Z)-3-hexen-1-yl bu ...
... Sexual reproductive development is a crucial stage in the life cycle of higher plants as any impairment of the processes involved might have significant implications for the productivity of crop plants and the survival of native species. There is considerable evidence that exposure to ozone, even at current ambient levels in many industrialized countries, reduces grain and fruit yields and adverse ...
... Reduced tillage can change numerous physico-chemical properties of soil and the activity of various microorganisms including mycorrhizal and pathogenic soil fungi, and thus influence nutrient uptake by plant roots. We studied the colonization of roots by mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal fungi and nutrient concentrations in plant tops grown during a 3-yr rotation of maize (Zea mays L.), winter wheat ...
water conservation; diameter; soil water content; Sorghum bicolor; bulk density; crop yield; forage; Triticum aestivum; soil fertility; Brassica napus; triticale; Hibiscus cannabinus; protein content; crop rotation; mortality; soil aggregates; Texas
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... Dryland winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] yield favorably when rotated or grown continually in the southern Great Plains, but improved water conservation practices make other systems possible for these crops. Also, farmers can now produce other crops without losing government payments. Winter wheat, grain sorghum, and opportunity crop performance; ...
interspecific variation; nutrient content; superphosphate; seeds; crop yield; nutrient requirements; Triticum aestivum; Brassica napus; field experimentation; phosphorus; Lupinus angustifolius; shoots; Western Australia
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... Increases in yield due to applications of phosphorus (P) (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 40 kg P/ha) applied as single (ordinary) superphosphate were measured for canola (Brassica napus), lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) and wheat (Triticum aestivum) in a field experiment on a deep sandy soil near Esperance, south-western Australia (WA). There are no data comparing the P requirements of these species grown at ...
... Many plants increase in freezing tolerance in response to low, nonfreezing temperatures, a phenomenon known as cold acclimation. Cold acclimation in Arabidopsis involves rapid cold-induced expression of the C-repeat/dehydration-responsive element binding factor (CBF) transcriptional activators followed by expression of CBF-targeted genes that increase freezing tolerance. Here, we present evidence ...
... Cu binding to root exudates of two cultivated plants, wheat (Triticum aestivum) and rape (Brassica napus), and two weeds associated with wheat, dog daisy (Matricaria inodora) and cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), was studied in vitro under hydroponic and sterile conditions. Nutrient solutions were prepared with or without P. A MetPLATE microbiological test was used to assess the metal complexing capa ...
... The critical period of weed control is the portion of the life cycle of a crop during which it must be kept weed-free to prevent yield loss due to weed interference. The advent of herbicide-resistant canola (Brassica napus L.) varieties in western Canada has meant that there are now more options for postemergence weed control in canola, and this has prompted increased interest in identifying the o ...
... Previous work had shown that the sulfonylurea herbicide chlorsulfuron affected the survival of a herbivorous insect species dwelling on a sub-lethally exposed host plant. Further experiments have been conducted to establish whether this negative effect was a single occurrence characteristic for the specific insect-plant interaction and the specific herbicide tested. Three insect-plant interactions ...
... • To examine whether root exudates of the Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens play a role in metal hyperaccumulation, we compared the metal mobilization capacity of root exudates collected from two ecotypes of T. caerulescens, and from the nonaccumulators wheat (Triticum aestivum) and canola (Brassica napus). • Plants were grown hydroponically and three treatments (control, –Fe and –Zn) we ...
... Insight into nutrient cycling is gained by understanding the dynamics and quantifying nutrient mineralization from decomposing crop residues. Since wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), canola (Brassica napus L.) and pulse crops such as pea (Pisum sativum L.) are commonly grown in rotation, our objectives were to: (1) compare, using the mesh bag technique, the dry matter (DM) loss and release of N and P o ...
... Raphanus raphanistrum L has evolved widespread resistance to sulfonylureas in the Western Australia (WA) wheat belt. With the introduction of imidazolinone-tolerant (IT) wheat (Tritcum aestivum L) and IT canola (Brassica napus L) in the WA wheat belt, it is important to understand the status of cross-resistance in this weed to sulfonylurea and imidazolinone (Imi) herbicides. A study was conducted ...
Brassica napus; Hordeum vulgare; Triticum aestivum; application rate; barley; canola; crops; grain protein; grain yield; hard red spring wheat; manure spreading; nitrates; nitrogen; nitrogen content; nutrient use efficiency; pig manure; pollution; protein content; soil depth; soil treatment; Saskatchewan
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... A study was initiated in the fall of 1996 in the Black soil zone in east-central Saskatchewan (parkland region) to examine the soil and crop response to application of liquid swine manure at different rates, frequencies and methods of application. Low, medium and high rates of liquid swine manure (equivalent to approximately 100, 200 and 400 kg total N ha-1, respectively) were applied annually and ...
... Overwinter N leaching increases the potential for NO₃ contamination of ground water under irrigated desert soils. Our objectives were to (i) identify winter cover crops for recovering N and (ii) determine the N availability following green manure cover crops relative to N uptake by a succeeding potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) crop. A 2-yr field study was conducted on commercial fields on Quincy loam ...
... It has been stated that soil residual herbicides, by controlling successive flushes of weeds, increase effective kill (efficacy) over the growing season, and thus impose a higher selection pressure for resistance in weeds than non-residual herbicides. To investigate this issue, the responses of wild oat to increasing rates of residual and non-residual herbicides in canola and wild oat recruitment ...
Brassica napus; Linum usitatissimum; Triticum aestivum; Triticum turgidum; aquaporins; cultivars; flax; immunoblotting; permeability; protein synthesis; protoplasts; root growth; roots; salt stress; seedlings; sodium chloride; sorbitol; temperate zones; water potential; wheat
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... The effect of low water potentials on root growth of flax (Linum usitatissimum L. cv. Ariane), rape (Brassica napus L. de Candolle, cv. Bristol), hard wheat (Triticum turgidum L. cv. Cham1) and soft wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Ritmo) was studied by measuring the osmotic water permeability (Pₒₛ) of root protoplasts and the protein abundance of PIP1 and PIP2 aquaporins. These different species r ...
... Cropping systems in the northern Great Plains (NGP) have evolved from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)–fallow rotations to diversified cropping sequences. Diversification and continuous cropping have largely been a consequence of soil moisture saved through the adoption of conservation tillage. Consequently, weed communities have changed and, in some cases, become resistant to commonly used herbicides ...
Brassica napus; Gossypium hirsutum; Thanatephorus cucumeris; Triticum aestivum; agronomy; aldicarb; biotypes; canola; fallow; fungicide application; insecticides; planting date; seed cotton; seedlings; stand establishment; tillage; winter wheat; Southeastern United States
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... Canola (Brassica napus L.) can be profitably grown as a winter crop in a double-crop system in the southeastern USA. However, stand reductions of double-cropped cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) following canola have been observed. Field experiments were conducted over 2 yr to examine the effects of previous crop, tillage, planting date, and pesticide use on stand establishment of double-cropped cott ...
Brassica napus; Lolium perenne; Sinapis; Triticum aestivum; animal manures; arylsulfatase; composts; enzyme activity; field experimentation; mineral fertilizers; rhizosphere; roots; soil
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... It is assumed that arylsulfatase contributes to the mineralization of organic S to SO42− for plant uptake. However, the impacts of agronomic measures (long-term organic manure) or crop species on enzyme activity are not well understood. Therefore, in the present investigations arylsulfatase activity was quantified within the rhizosphere of Sinapis album, Lolium perenne, Triticum aestivum and Brass ...
... Crop responsiveness to P fertilizers on the Canadian Prairies has likely declined during the past three to four decades due to regular application of P fertilizer and reduced tillage. Its relationship to extractable soil P as determined by various soil tests may also have changed. The objective of this study was to evaluate five soil test P methods for three major crops across a wide range of soil ...