Claim · model-written summary
Acidic subsoil reduced root length in the subsoil and the deep-root ratio compared with limed subsoil.
- Taxon
- bread wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Treatment
- acidic subsoile1
- Outcome
- root length in the subsoil, deep-root ratioe1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Comparator
- limede0
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Verbatim
e0“two bread wheat cultivars, Haruyokoi and Harukirari, and one spelt line, KU-1025, under limed and acidic subsoil treatments”
e1“The acidic subsoil reduced shoot N uptake, root length in the subsoil, deep-root ratio, and NO3-N depletion”
Title
Ryosuke Tajima; Takae Suzuki; Tomohiro Watanabe; et al. Nitrogen 2026. doi:10.3390/nitrogen7020064
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Acidic subsoil reduced shoot N uptake of wheat compared with limed subsoil.
- Intervention effect Acidic subsoil reduced NO3-N depletion compared with limed subsoil.
- Observation Spelt line KU-1025 had the greatest shoot dry weight and shoot N uptake of the genotypes under both limed and acidic subsoil treatments.
- Observation Spelt line KU-1025 had the greatest root dry weight and total root length of the genotypes under both limed and acidic subsoil treatments.
- Observation KU-1025 maintained a high deep-root ratio under acidic subsoil conditions.
- Observation KU-1025 showed lower soil NO3-N concentrations and less N leaching than the two wheat cultivars.
- Association Across genotypes and treatments, shoot N uptake was positively correlated with root dry weight and total root length.
- Association Across genotypes and treatments, N leaching was negatively correlated with root dry weight and total root length.
- Mechanism The authors suggest that maintaining a large root system, rather than deep rooting alone, is important for improving N capture and reducing N loss under acidic subsoil.
- Recommendation The authors suggest KU-1025 may provide useful genetic variation for breeding wheat adapted to acidic subsoil environments.