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Acta Agron Sin ›› 2017, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (06): 925-934.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1006.2017.00925

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Effects of Tillage Methods and Nitrogen Fertilizer Types on Photosynthetic Performance of Summer Maize

ZHENG Bin,ZHAO Wei,XU Zheng,GAO Da-Peng,JIANG Yuan-Yuan,LIU Peng,LI Zeng-Jia,LI Geng*,NING Tang-Yuan*   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology / Agronomy College of Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, Shandong 271018, China
  • Received:2016-07-29 Revised:2017-03-02 Online:2017-06-12 Published:2017-03-17
  • Contact: 李耕, E-mail: ligeng213@sina.com; Tel: 0538-8242653; 宁堂原, E-mail: ningty@163.com; Tel: 0538-8242653 E-mail:1072543428@qq.com
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    This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31401339 and 31371576), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFD0300205), the China Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (201503130, 201503121), and Shandong Modern Agricultural Technology & Industry System (SDAIT-02-08), and National Key Technology Support Program of China (2013BAD07B06–2).

Abstract:

In order to understand the effects of different tillage methods and nitrogen fertilizer types on photosynthetic performances and their mechanism, the characteristics of photosystem II (PSII), photosystem I (PSI) and the coordination between them in ear leaves of maize (cultivar, Zhengdan 958) were studied by using fast chlorophyll fluorescence-induction kinetics and 820 nm light-absorption curves. Two-year field experiment indicated that, compared with normal urea, controlled-release urea significantly increased the chlorophyll content, net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and stomatal conductance (Gs) of ear leaves after anthesis, and significantly improved the coordination between PSII and PSI. Compared with rotary tillage, subsoiling significantly increased the photosynthetic performances in ear leaves during reproductive stage. Subsoiling method combined with controlled-release urea application could significantly increase chlorophyll content, improve the performances of electron donor and acceptor sides of electron transport chain in PSII reaction center, and enhance the distribution of electron transported from PSII to PSI as well. Consequently, the coordination between PSII and PSI after anthesis was significantly improved, which is conducive to the stability of photosynthetic performances during maize reproductive stage. The improvement of photosynthetic performances under subsoiling method and controlled-release urea treatment significantly enhanced Pn in ear leaves and increased grain number per ear and grain yield per plant, and eventually increased maize yield. Therefore, subsoiling combined with controlled-release urea could effectively improve photosynthetic performances by increasing the coordination between PSII and PSI, which is the major reason for increasing maize yield.

Key words: Subsoil tillage, Controlled-release urea, Photosynthetic performance, Photosystem, Coordination of photosystem I and II

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