Título: Assessment of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) water stress : lipo-chitooligosaccharides application and spectral response
Autores: Atti, Sarra
Fecha: 2002
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Soybean -- Effect of stress on.
Soybean -- Effect of drought on.
Endotoxins.
Oligosaccharides.
Descripción: This study was conducted to improve knowledge of the impact of chronic soil water deficit and to test a novel technique of water management consisting of Lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCO) spray application. It also aimed at evaluating changes in canopy reflectance due to water stress and LCO spray. Water stress during reproductive development resulted in an important decrease of plant physiological activity, vegetative growth, and productivity, and accelerated plant senescence at both water stress levels. Water deficit increased leaf reflectance in the visible and decreased it in the infrared ranges of the spectrum at both imposed stress levels. Foliar application of LCO affected overall plant physiological activity, increased flower and pod numbers. LCO treatment had the largest positive effect on the growth pattern of soybean at the medium stress level, which is the stress level most commonly observed in standard farm-field conditions. LCO treatment constitutes a potential technology for reducing water deficit effects. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Idioma: en