Claim · model-written summary
Under well watered conditions, root growth was three-fold higher in Horizon than in Maris Piper 3 weeks after emergence.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Material
- Horizone2
- Treatment
- well watered conditionse2
- Outcome
- root growthe2
- Direction
- highere2
- Value
- three-folde2
- Qualifier
- 3 weeks after emergencee2
- Comparator
- Maris Pipere2
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Verbatim
t0“potato (Solanum tuberosum) varieties”
e2“Under well watered conditions, root growth was three-fold higher in Horizon compared with Maris Piper, 3 weeks after emergence”
Title
Jaime Puértolas; Carlos Ballester; E. David Elphinstone; et al. Functional Plant Biology 2014. doi:10.1071/fp14105
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation In the glasshouse, both potato cultivars showed similar gas exchange, leaf water potential and leaf xylem ABA concentration under well watered or water deficit conditions.
- Observation In the glasshouse, shoot biomass was similar in both potato cultivars under well watered or water deficit conditions.
- Association Water deficit reduced the root-growth difference between Horizon and Maris Piper.
- Intervention effect In the polytunnel, applying 60% or less irrigation volume significantly decreased tuber yield in Maris Piper.
- Intervention effect In the polytunnel, 60% or less irrigation volume did not reduce tuber yield in Horizon.
- Association Horizon had higher root density than Maris Piper in deep soil layers where water content was stable.
- Recommendation Early vigorous root proliferation may be a useful selection trait for maintaining potato yield under restricted irrigation or rainfall.
- Recommendation Selecting for vigorous root growth may assist phenotyping screening for drought tolerance in potato.
- Recommendation Potato varieties may need particular environmental or cultural conditions to express root vigour.