scholarly journals Foliage applications of jasmonic acid modulate the antioxidant defense under water deficit growth in sugar beet

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. e0805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamideh Ghaffari ◽  
Mahmoud R. Tadayon ◽  
Muhammad Nadeem ◽  
Jamshid Razmjoo ◽  
Mumtaz Cheema
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Jasmonic Acid ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Antioxidant Enzyme Activities ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Adverse Environmental Conditions ◽  
Sugar Beet Crop ◽  
White Sugar

Aims of study: Water deficit (WD) is becoming an alarming problem in many regions of the world. Jasmonic acid (JA) is considered an important intracellular plant growth regulator. The aim of the current research was to investigate the important role of JA in mitigating the negative effects of WD on plant growth.Area of study: Sugar beet production systems of two locations in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province, Iran.Material and methods: A field trial was conducted to assess the foliar applications of JA (0, 5 µM and 10 µM) and WD (50%, 75%, 100% plant water requirements) effects on physiological yield components of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) plants.Main results: WD significantly (p<0.05) increased catalase, ascorbate and peroxidase activities, and malondialdehyde, hydrogen peroxide and white sugar content (WSC); however, it caused a reduction in white sugar yield and root yield (RY). JA foliage applications further enhanced the enzymes activity in WD treated plants resulting in higher WSC, potassium concentrations, white sugar and final RY. Interestingly the effects of JA applications were more pronounced under severe WD (50%) compared to mild (75%) or well-watered plants (100%). JA (10 µM) foliage applications increased the RY and white sugar production by 21% and 24% under severe WD.Research highlights: JA can ameliorate the adverse effects of WD and increase the WD tolerance of sugar beet crop by upregulating the antioxidant enzyme activities to withstand adverse environmental conditions.

scholarly journals Water saving and yield increase of sugar beet with subsurface drip irrigation

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Drip Irrigation ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
Subsurface Drip Irrigation ◽  
Water Application ◽  
Yield Increase ◽  
Crop Performance ◽  
Subsurface Drip ◽  
Sugar Beet Crop

This study was conducted to evaluate the surface and subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) application effects on sugar beet crop performance, under two levels (100% and 80%) of water application depth. The experimental design was a split plot with four replications. Laterals were set every second crop row (1 m apart), with emitters spaced 1 m apart. In the case of SDI, laterals were buried 0.45 m under the ground. Soil moisture measurements were taken up to 75 cm depth, using the TDR method. The soil water content and the yield characteristics of each treatment were recorded. Irrigation method showed to affect crop performance significantly while water application level was less critical. The experimental results indicated that the subsurface drip irrigation leaded to a greater yield and higher sugar content making significant water saving compared to surface drip irrigation.

scholarly journals Application of jasmonic acid can mitigate water deficit stress in cotton through yield-related physiological properties

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Yosefi ◽  
Shahram Sharafzadeh ◽  
Forood Bazrafshan ◽  
Mahdi Zare ◽  
Bahram Amiri
Keyword(s):  
Jasmonic Acid ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Soluble Sugars ◽  
Water Deficit Stress ◽  
Cotton Yield ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Semiarid Regions ◽  
Arid And Semiarid

Precise and appropriate management of farmland for a cotton crop to reach the highest water use efficiency with a low water supply and an acceptable yield is required in arid- and semiarid regions. This study in Iran aimed to find the most appropriate concentration of jasmonic acid (JA) and the best stage for application to cope with any negative impacts of water deficit stress. A split-plot factorial experiment based on a randomized complete block design with three replications was used in 2 consecutive years (2016–2017). Two irrigation intervals of 10 and 20 days were used, with four concentrations of JA (0, 25, 50, and 100 mg L<sup>−1</sup> ) and applications at three crop stages (vegetative, reproductive, and vegetative and reproductive together). The final results showed that the 20-day interval significantly decreased relative water content, the quantity of cotton, cotton yield and its related traits including boll number per plant, the 1,000-seed weight, seed cotton yield, lint yield, and lint percentage. It also increased the content of proline and soluble sugars. The 50-mg L<sup>−1</sup> concentration of JA applied at the vegetative-reproductive stages appropriately mitigated the negative effects of water deficit. These results are of practical application for farmers in arid- and semiarid regions with low water supply when irrigating cotton lands in order to reach an acceptable cotton yield.

scholarly journals Physiological and Antioxidant Parameters in Two Lycoris Species as Influenced by Water Deficit Stress

HortScience ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (11) ◽  
pp. 1702-1708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Xu ◽  
Mingmin Jiang ◽  
Jiangyan Fu ◽  
Lijian Liang ◽  
Bing Xia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antioxidant Enzyme ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Enzyme Activities ◽  
Water Status ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Soluble Sugar ◽  
Net Photosynthesis ◽  
Water Deficit Stress ◽  
Antioxidant Enzyme Activities ◽  
Guaiacol Peroxidase

From a field experiment, the changes in morphophysiological characters and antioxidant enzyme activities were studied in two Lycoris species (Lycoris radiata and Lycoris aurea) subjected to 16 days of water deficit stress. With the increase of water deficit stress processing time, leaf relative water content (RWC), membrane stability index (MSI), net photosynthesis (Pn), stomatal conductance (gS), transpiration rate (E), and chlorophyll (Chl) content decreased in both studied species. The water use efficiency (WUE) showed an opposite tendency between the two species under water deficit stress, where WUE of L. aurea decreased moderately and WUE of L. aurea increased somehow. Intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci) in L. aurea and L. radiata decreased in respond to water deficit stress at early stages of stress treatment, then increased throughout the rest of the stress period, and reached levels higher than those in well-watered plants at the end of the treatment. In addition, there was a significant increment in soluble sugar content and proline accumulation under water deficit stress in both species, and L. radiata showed a much more accumulation. The activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), guaiacol peroxidase (POD), and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) increased in both plants subjected to water deficit stress while declined as the stress time increased. In L. aurea, catalase (CAT) showed a sustained increment, but it responded later and after a transient increase declined again in L. radiata under water deficit stress. In conclusion, L. radiata was more tolerant to water deficit stress than L. aurea as evidenced by its relatively higher water status, higher levels of proline, soluble sugar and pigments, and stronger photoprotection. Moreover, relatively higher antioxidant enzyme activities and lower levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) in L. radiata were also associated with its better protection against water deficit stress-induced oxidative damage.

scholarly journals Estimation of Sugar Beet Yield and its Dry Matter Partitioning Under Different Irrigation and Nitrogen Levels

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Kamali ◽  
Shahrokh Zand-Parsa
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Sprinkler Irrigation ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Dry Matter Partitioning ◽  
Nitrogen Levels ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
White Sugar

In this study, a simple logistic model was developed for estimating total dry matter of sugar beet under different irrigation and nitrogen levels. The experiment was conducted using line source sprinkler irrigation in 2013 and furrow irrigation in 2014. Irrigation treatments were from 44% to 130% of full irrigation and applied nitrogen treatments ranged from 0 to 240 kg N ha-1. Results showed that the model was more accurate in predicting total dry matter at harvest date with the Normalized Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE) amounting to almost 10 percent. After total dry matter estimation, a model was needed for dry matter partitioning between different organs of sugar beet. To achieve this goal, another logistic model was developed and was compared with three revised models. Finally, white sugar content of root dry matter was estimated using a quadratic equation as a function of applied water and nitrogen. Validation results indicated that total and root dry matters, and white sugar yield were estimated fairly well. Results showed that excessive water had negative effects on total dry matter and root dry matter. Also, excessive nitrogen affected root dry matter negatively too, but even the excess had positive effects on total dry matter. In contrast to common belief, our results showed that drought stress reduced both ratios of root to leaf, and root to shoot dry matter.

scholarly journals Elucidation of genetic diversity among some accessions of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) using inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Almoataz Bellah Ali El-Mouhamady ◽  
Magdy Ahmad Al-Kordy ◽  
Tarik Abdel-Fatah Elewa
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Genetic Improvement ◽  
Issr Markers ◽  
Sugar Yield ◽  
Genetic Progress ◽  
Improvement Program ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
Sugar Beet Crop ◽  
White Sugar

Abstract Background Sugar beet is considered a very important strategic economic crop, as it comes at the second place for white sugar production in Egypt after sugar cane and the sugar percentage in its roots is 20%. This work was conducted in Egypt as a direct response to bridge the gap which began to expand significantly between the production and consumption of white sugar and the desire for the genetic improvement process to increase the productivity of this crop. Further, as serious attempt to understand the nature of the genetic diversity among a group of sugar beet accessions with different origins, it constitutes an important source for establishing a program of breeding and improving sugar beet crop under Egyptian conditions. Results The process of verifying the existence of significant genetic variation between the eight sugar beet varieties with various origins was carried out through a set of genetic parameters through two growing seasons besides, the data of ISSR markers profile. Further, all the sugar beet varieties were superior in all the studied traits during their evaluation over two agricultural years, where the two sugar beet accessions Oscar Poly and Rass Poly are superior in TSS % and sucrose % traits, Mont Bianco and Sultan in apparent purity % trait, Blino and Sultan in root yield and top yield traits and Rass Poly and Blino in sugar yield trait, respectively. In addition, the values of heritability in broad sense were high in all studied traits except the two traits; sucrose % and sugar yield where their results were appeared medium during both growing seasons. In the same regard, expected genetic advance values showed significant genetic progress in all studied traits during the two growing seasons. As well, highly genetic diversity was obtained between the eight sugar beet accessions through generated 169 amplified fragments from the twelve ISSR primers, 122 of them were polymorphic with 72.18% polymorphism. Conclusions The eight sugar beet varieties achieved remarkable and distinctive results for all traits under study during two agricultural years. However, they were differentiated and various from each other. As they differed in their superiority in all estimated traits and they proved to be fertile material for studying in this investigation and very suitable for enriching the breeding and genetic improvement program to promote the sugar beet yield in order to increase the productivity of white sugar in Egypt.

The use of monochloramine to replace formaldehyde in the sugar beet process (extraction)

2015 ◽  
pp. 753-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Chauwin ◽  
B. Launay ◽  
E. van Haute
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Ph Value ◽  
Thermophilic Bacteria ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Beet Sugar ◽  
Technical Capability ◽  
White Sugar

For many years, the beet sugar processing industry has been using formaldehyde as a disinfectant to control (thermophilic) bacteria activity. Formaldehyde is toxic, reduces the color of the final crystalline white sugar and because it is applied via shock doses causes pH value fluctuations and thereby sugar losses. Several trials have been carried out in sugar factories in France and Italy with monochloramine demonstrating the technical capability of replacing formaldehyde in various types of extractors and plant designs without generating the negative effects of formaldehyde.

scholarly journals The influence of harvest date and crop treatment on the production of two different sugar beet variety types

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 492-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Jozefyová ◽  
J. Pulkrábek ◽  
J. Urban
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Harvest Time ◽  
Dry Period ◽  
Fungicide Treatment ◽  
Nitrogen Fertilisation ◽  
Sugar Beet Variety ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The Postponement ◽  
White Sugar

In a&nbsp;four-year trial, the effect was evaluated of the harvest time on the production of two different sugar beet variety types (the Z-type variety Elan and the NE-type variety Epos) grown in three patterns &ndash; 1. check pattern, 2. fertilisation with50 kgN/ha, 3. fertilisation with50 kgN/ha + fungicide treatment. Sugar beet was harvested in two terms: at the beginning of the beet processing season, and four weeks later. The differences between the varieties became apparent mainly at the later harvest time. The root yields of the NE-type variety Epos were higher at the later harvest by the average 4.35 t/ha (statistically significant,&nbsp;&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.01) while its sugar content was lower by 0.3% (&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.05) than in the Z-type variety Elan. The postponement of the harvest time increased the root yields of both varieties by the average 10.47 t/ha (i.e. by 17.9%,&nbsp;&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.01). The effect of the harvest time on the sugar content was dependent on the year. Due to retrovegetation following the rainfalls after a&nbsp;prolonged dry period in the year 2000, the sugar content decreased at the later harvest time by 1.68% in absolute figures (or by 8.35% rel.,&nbsp;&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.01). The content of molassigenic substances in sugar beet roots varied according to the year rather than to the factors followed. The white sugar yields increased at the later harvest by the average 1.57 t/ha (or by 16.9%,&nbsp;&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.01). The average increment of sugar for each day of the postponed harvest was 58.2 kg/ha (or 0.63%). The effect of nitrogen fertilisation and fungicide treatment on the sugar beet production became apparent at the later harvest time. Fertilisation with50 kgN/ha + fungicide treatment increased the root yields by 1.07 t/ha (or by 10.32%,&nbsp;&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.01) in comparison with the pattern without nitrogen fertilisation and fungicide treatment. Spraying with fungicide itself increased the sugar yields by 0.81 t/ha (or by 7.81%,&nbsp;&alpha;&nbsp;= 0.01) in comparison with the pattern equally fertilised but not treated with fungicide.

scholarly journals Impact of sugar beet seed priming on molasses components, sugar content and technological white sugar yield

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Beata Michalska-Klimczak ◽  
Zdzislaw Wyszyňski ◽  
Vladimír Pačuta ◽  
Marek Rašovský ◽  
Joanna Lešniewska
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Amino Nitrogen ◽  
Seed Priming ◽  
Sugar Yield ◽  
Root Weight ◽  
Field Station ◽  
Beet Root ◽  
The Impact ◽  
White Sugar

The impact of non-treated and primed seeds on molasses components, sugar content and technological white sugar yield of the same cultivar of sugar beet root was investigated. The study was conducted in 2012–2014 at the Experiment Field Station of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW in Skierniewice (51°97'N, 20°19'E) in the central region of Poland. The use of primed seeds resulted in a higher technological white sugar yield with higher sugar content and lower content of α-amino nitrogen in the roots. Also, seed priming increased the technological value of the roots by a lower share in the root yield fractions of the root weight less than 300 g, characterized by lower sugar content and a higher content of α-amino nitrogen.

Breeding and usage of sugar beet cultivars and hybrids resistant to sugar beet nematode Heterodera schachtii

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Pylypenko ◽  
K. Kalatur
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Sugar Content ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Nematode Resistance ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Heterodera Schachtii ◽  
Yield Reduction ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Germplasm Exchange ◽  
Good Agricultural Practice

Heterodera schachtii Schmidt, 1871 is one of the most economically important pests of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) worldwide. It is also widespread in most sugar beet growing regions in Ukraine causing serious yield reduction and decreasing sugar content of sugar beet in infested fi elds. An advanced parasitic strategy of H. schachtii is employed to support nematode growth, reproduction and harmfulness. In intensive agriculture systems the nematode control measures heavily rely on nematicides and good agricultural practice (crop rota- tion in the fi rst place). But alternative strategies based on nematode resistant sugar beet cultivars and hybrids are required as none of nematicides approved for the open fi eld application are registered in Ukraine. Here we review the achievements and problems of breeding process for H. schachtii resistance and provide the results of national traditional breeding program. Since the beginning of 1980s fi ve sugar beet cultivars (Verchnyatskyi 103, Yaltuschkivska 30, Bilotcerkivska 45, BTs-40 and Yuvileynyi) and seventeen lines partly resistant or toler- ant to H. schachtii have been obtained throughout targeted crossing and progenies assessment in the infested fi elds. The further directions for better utilization of genetic sources for nematode resistance presented in na- tional gene bank collection are emphasized. There is a need for more accurate identifi cation of resistance genes, broader application of reliable molecular markers (suitable for marker-assisted selection of nematode resistant plants in the breeding process) and methods for genetic transformation of plants. Crop cash value and national production capacity should drive the cooperation in this fi eld. Knowledge as well as germplasm exchange are thereby welcomed that can benefi t breeding progress at national and international level.

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