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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 ...