通讯机构：
[Huaqin Xu] C;College of Resources and Environment, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China<&wdkj&>Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
作者机构：
[Liang, Tianfeng] Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rice Genetics and Breeding, Rice Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China;[Huang, Min; Tao, Zui; Lei, Tao; Cao, Fangbo; Chen, Jiana; Zou, Yingbin] Crop and Environment Research Center, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China;[Yin, Xiaohong] Crop and Environment Research Center, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China<&wdkj&>Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rice Genetics and Breeding, Rice Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China
通讯机构：
[Min Huang] C;[Tianfeng Liang] G;Guangxi Key Laboratory of Rice Genetics and Breeding, Rice Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning 530007, China<&wdkj&>Crop and Environment Research Center, College of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China
关键词：
Grain yield;Growth duration;Rice
摘要：
<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>The development of high-yielding, short-duration super-rice hybrids is important for ensuring food security in China where multiple cropping is widely practiced and large-scale farming has gradually emerged. In this study, field experiments were conducted over 3 years to identify the yield formation characteristics in the shorter-duration (∼120 days) super-rice hybrid ‘Guiliangyou 2’ (G2) by comparing it with the longer-duration (∼130 days) super-rice hybrid ‘Y-liangyou 1’ (Y1). The results showed that G2 had a shorter pre-heading growth duration and consequently a shorter total growth duration compared to Y1. Compared to Y1, G2 had lower total biomass production that resulted from lower daily solar radiation, apparent radiation use efficiency (RUE), crop growth rate (CGR), and biomass production during the pre-heading period, but the grain yield was not significantly lower than that of Y1 because it was compensated for by the higher harvest index that resulted from slower leaf senescence (<jats:italic>i.e.</jats:italic>, slower decline in leaf area index during the post-heading period) and higher RUE, CGR, and biomass production during the post-heading period. Our findings suggest that it is feasible to reduce the dependence of yield formation on growth duration to a certain extent in rice by increasing the use efficiency of solar radiation through crop improvement and also highlight the need for a greater fundamental understanding of the physiological processes involved in the higher use efficiency of solar radiation in super-rice hybrids.</jats:p>
通讯机构：
[Huang, Min] H;Hunan Agr Univ, Coll Agron, Crop & Environm Res Ctr, Changsha 410128, Peoples R China.
摘要：
Labor-saving crop establishment methods have rapidly developed for rice (Oryza sativa L.) production in China to address a labor shortage in agricultural production resulting from urban expansion, and many rice farmers who adopt such methods prefer to choose inbred varieties with reduced seed costs. This study aimed to determine which of two labor-saving establishment methods, zero tillage and direct seeding (ZTDS) and rotavator tillage and mechanical transplanting (RTMT), achieves higher grain yield in inbred rice. Field experiments were conducted at two sites across 3 yr to determine grain yield and yield attributes of elite inbred rice cultivar Jinlongsimiao, established under ZTDS and RTMT. Results showed that RTMT produced an 11% higher grain yield than ZTDS. Higher spikelet number per panicle was observed under RTMT compared with ZTDS, but spikelet number per square meter was not necessarily higher because it was compensated for by a reduced panicle number per square meter. The RTMT-established rice conferred higher spikelet filling percentage but lower grain weight than ZTDS-established rice. There was no consistent or significant difference in crop growth rate, total biomass production, or the source/sink ratio between RTMT and ZTDS rice. The RTMT method produced a higher harvest index than ZTDS. These results suggest that RTMT is the favorable method for inbred rice establishment to improve the partitioning of assimilates and, consequently, increase spikelet filling percentage and grain yield compared with ZTDS.
作者机构：
[Chen, Jiana; Cao, Fangbo; Shan, Shuanglu; Zou, Yingbin; Zhang, Hengdong; Chen, Guanghui; Huang, Min] Hunan Agr Univ, Coll Agron, Crop & Environm Res Ctr, Changsha 410128, Peoples R China.;[Zhang, Hengdong] Qianxinan Inst Karst Reg Dev Xingyi, Xingyi 652400, Guizhou, Peoples R China.;[Abou-Elwafa, Salah F.] Assiut Univ, Agron Dept, Fac Agr, Assiut 71526, Egypt.
通讯机构：
[Huang, Min] H;[Abou-Elwafa, Salah F.] A;Hunan Agr Univ, Coll Agron, Crop & Environm Res Ctr, Changsha 410128, Peoples R China.;Assiut Univ, Agron Dept, Fac Agr, Assiut 71526, Egypt.
关键词：
Rice;Proteomic;Amylose;Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis;Starch and sucrose metabolism
摘要：
Amylose accumulation in rice grains is controlled by genetic and environmental factors. Amylose content is a determinant factor of rice quality in terms of cooking and eating. Great variations in amylose content in indica rice cultivars have been observed. The current study was to identify differentially expressed proteins in starch and sucrose metabolism and glycolysis/gluconeogenesis pathways and their relationships to amylose synthesis using two rice cultivars possess contrasting phenotypes in grain amylose content. Synthesis and accumulation of amylose in rice grains significantly affected the variations between rice cultivars in amylose contents. The high amylose content cultivar has three down-regulated differentially expressed proteins, i.e., LOC_Os01g62420.1, LOC_Os02g36600.1, and LOC_Os08g37380.2 in the glycolysis/gluconeogenesis pathway, which limit the glycolytic process and decrease the glucose-1-phosphate consumption. In the starch and sucrose metabolic pathway, an up-regulated protein, i.e., LOC_Os06g04200.1 and two down-regulated proteins, i.e., LOC_Os05g32710.1 and LOC_Os04g43360.1 were identified (Figure 4). Glucose-1-phosphate is one of the first substrates in starch synthesis and glycolysis that are catalyzed to form adenosine diphosphate glucose (ADPG), then the ADPG is catalyzed by granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSS I) to elongate amylose. The results indicate that decreasing the consumption of glucose-1-phosphate in the glycolytic process is essential for the formation of ADPG and UDPG, which are substrates for amylose synthesis. In theory, amylose content in rice can be regulated by controlling the fate of glucose-1-phosphate.
通讯机构：
[Huang, Min] H;Hunan Agr Univ, Coll Agron, Crop & Environm Res Ctr, Changsha 410128, Hunan, Peoples R China.
摘要：
Low light is a common environmental factor that adversely affects rice yields. This study was conducted to evaluate the combined effect of hill density and nitrogen (N) fertilizer rate on yield attributes in hybrid rice under low-light conditions. Field experiments were conducted in 2014 and 2015. Two hybrid rice cultivars (Y-liangyou 1 and Luoyou 9348) were grown under combinations of three hill density levels (high, 40 x 10(4) hills ha(-1); moderate, 27 x 10(4) hills ha(-1); low, 14 x 10(4) hills ha(-1)) and two N rate levels (high, 240 kg ha(-1); moderate, 143-148 kg ha(-1)), and shaded from heading to maturity. Grain yield was highest in the combination of high hill density and moderate N rate and significantly declined with decreasing hill density combined with increasing N rate for both cultivars in both years. Averaged across two cultivars and two years, grain yield declined by about 4% for each 10% decrease in hill density combined with each 10% increase in N rate. A significant reduction in spikelet filling percentage was observed with decreasing hill density combined with increasing N rate in Y-liangyou 1 in 2015 and Luoyou 9348 in 2014. The same trend was observed for grain weight in Y-liangyou 1 in 2014 and Luoyou 9348 in 2015. These results indicate that adopting the practice of decreasing hill density combined with increasing N rate can result in poor grain filling and consequently yield decline in hybrid rice under low-light conditions.
通讯机构：
[Huang, Min] H;Hunan Agr Univ, Coll Agron, Crop & Environm Res Ctr Human Hlth, Changsha, Hunan, Peoples R China.
摘要：
Glutelin and prolamin are the two major proteins in rice grains. Grain content of glutelin is considerably higher than that of prolamin in rice, but there is limited information on the factors determining the different grain contents of glutelin and prolamin. To address this knowledge gap, the present study compared final weight per grain and accumulation characteristics of glutelin and prolamin in four rice cultivars. Results showed that final glutelin weight per grain was 3.24-3.95 times higher than final prolamin weight per grain. Glutelin and prolamin accumulation processes were well fitted by the logistic equation. The initial, maximum, and mean accumulation rates of glutelin were 1.69-4.67 times higher than those of prolamin. The active accumulation duration of glutelin was 2.9-5.1 d longer than that of prolamin. These results indicate that both higher accumulation rate and longer active accumulation duration are responsible for the higher final weight per grain of glutelin compared to prolamin in rice.
摘要：
Amylose content and starch granule size in grains influence rice quality, which differs between the early (ES) and late season (LS). The objective of this study was to determine the variation of amylose content and starch granule size between seasons and find the main reasons (e.g., temperature and solar radiation) for the observed variation. Field experiments with six rice varieties (three high and three low amylose content rice) planted in the ES and LS were conducted in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The mean temperatures during the filling stage were higher in ES, however, the daily temperatures at 7-10 days after flowering (DAF) in 2016, and at 5-10, 13-14 DAF in 2017 were higher in LS. The results showed that amylose content in LS was lower than in ES with high amylose content rice varieties (HACV); the opposite trend occurred with low amylose content rice varieties (LACV). The mean starch granule diameter was higher in LS than ES in 2016, but the opposite result occurred in 2017 with all rice. Our results suggest that higher temperatures increased and decreased the amylose content in HACV and LACV, respectively. Temperatures at 5-15 DAF were important for the formation of starch granules: lower temperatures during 10-14 DAF increased the proportion of larger starch granules (d > 6.21 mu m, some with d > 13.3 mu m), and higher temperatures at 5-6 DAF increased the proportion of starch granules with diameter 4.24-6.21 mu m.
摘要：
In order to solve the problem of labor shortage in double-season rice production areas, machine transplanting, as opposed to manual transplanting, has become the more popular alternative method in rice cultivation. However, the most existing late rice cultivars are not suitable for machine double-season rice cultivation due to their long duration of growth. Therefore, based on the previous studies we chose early season rice cultivars to meet the needs of machine double-season rice cultivation. In this study, field experiments were conducted during the late season in 2015 and 2016 in Liuyang County, Hunan Province, China. Grain yield and yield-related traits were compared among eight early-season cultivars (Liangyou 6, Lingliangyou 211, Lingliangyou 268, Zhuliangyou 819, Xiangzaoxian 32, Xiangzaoxian 42, Zhongjiazao 17, and Zhongzao 39) in 2015 and four cultivars (Lingliangyou 268, Zhuliangyou 819, Zhongjiazao 17, and Zhongzao 39) in 2016, selected from the highest yielding cultivars grown in 2015. Lingliangyou 268 produced 8-44% higher grain yield than did the other cultivars except Zhongjiazao17 in 2015. This higher grain yield was driven by grain weight and aboveground biomass. The greater aboveground biomass in Lingliangyou 268 was mainly attributed to higher apparent radiation use efficiency (aboveground biomass/incident solar radiation). Our study suggests that improvement in grain weight and apparent radiation use efficiency were critical to the high grain yield of early-season rice cultivars grown in late season under machine transplanting conditions.
