Leaf Removal Affects Maize Morphology and Grain Yield

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第一作者： Liu, Guangzhou

作者： Liu, Guangzhou;Xue, Jun;Xie, Ruizhi;Ming, Bo;Wang, Keru;Hou, Peng;Li, Shaokun;Yang, Yunshan;Liu, Wanmao;Guo, Xiaoxia

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关键词： maize; high density; plant type; leaf removal; optimum LAI

期刊名称：AGRONOMY-BASEL （ 影响因子：3.417； 五年影响因子：3.64 ）

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年卷期： 2020 年 10 卷 2 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Increasing planting density is an important practice associated with increases in maize yield, but densely planted maize can suffer from poor light conditions. In our two-year field experiments, two morphologically different cultivars, ZD958 (less compact) and DH618 (more compact), were planted at 120,000 plants ha(-1) and 135,000 plants ha(-1), respectively. We established different leaf area index (LAI) treatments by removing leaves three days after silking: (1) control, no leaves removed (D0); (2) the two uppermost leaves removed (D1); (3) the four uppermost leaves removed (D2); (4) the leaves below the third leaf below the ear removed (D3); (5) the leaves of D1 and D3 removed (D4); (6) the leaves of D2 and D3 removed (D5). Optimal leaf removal improved light distribution, increased photosynthetic capacity and the post-silking source-sink ratio, and thus the grain yield, with an average LAI of 5.9 (5.6 and 6.2 for ZD958 and DH618, respectively) for the highest yields in each year. Therefore, less-compact cultivars should have smaller or fewer topmost leaves or leaves below the ear that quickly senesce post-silking, so as to decrease leaf area and thus improve light distribution and photosynthetic capacity in the canopy under dense planting conditions. However, for more compact cultivars, leaves below the ear should senesce quickly after silking to reduce leaf respiration and improve the photosynthetic capacity of the remaining top residual leaves. In future maize cultivation, compact cultivars with optimal post-silking LAI should be adopted when planting densely.

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