1. Variability of N2 fixation in cowpea under phosphorus deficiency is related to phosphorus use efficiency
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Lazali, Mohamed, Brahimi, S, Ounane, Sidi Mohamed, Drevon, Jean-Jacques, Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Département d’Agronomie, Faculté des sciences de la nature et de la vie et des sciences de la terre, Université de Djilali Bounaama Khemis Miliana (univ-DBKM), Département de Productions Végétales, École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie [Alger] (ENSA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie Alger (ENSA), and Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)
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Vegetal Biology ,vigna unguiculata ,carence en phosphore ,food and beverages ,[SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology ,nodulation ,phosphore du sol ,fixation symbiotique de l'azote ,biomasse aérienne ,Biologie végétale ,variabilité genotypique - Abstract
Low availability of phosphorus (P) is a major constraint to legume production, and efforts are being made to identify legume genotypes with tolerance to low P and greater P use efficiency (PUE). Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) genotypes vary in their adaptation to low-P soils. In order to investigate to what extent this variation may be related to PUE for symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF), five genotypes, Adrar, El Kala, Djenet, Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia, were grown in semihydroponic culture with sufficient versus deficient P supply. At the flowering stage, the biomass of plants and nodules and their P contents was determined after measuring the quantity of N2 fixed. The results showed that nodule and shoot biomass were less when P was deficient. The genotypes that presented the maximum growth during the experiment presented a high efficiency in use of the rhizobial symbiosis calculated as the slope of plant biomass regression as a function of nodulation. Under P-deficiency, efficiency in use of P for SNF was significantly increased in the genotypes El Kala, Djenet and Adrar and accompanied with an increase of the efficiency in use of the rhizobial symbiosis. Hence the large differences show that traits for more P uptake-efficient plants exist in the tested cowpea genotypes. This opens the possibility to breed for more P uptakeefficient varieties as a way to bring more sparingly soluble soil P into cycling in crop production and obtain capitalisation of soil P reserves.
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- 2016