Elevated CO2 enhances rice root growth under alternate wetting and drying irrigation by involving ABA response: Evidence from the seedling stage

Ke Wang, Feiyun Xu, Wei Yuan*, Yexin Ding, Leyun Sun, Zhiwei Feng, Xin Liu, Weifeng Xu*, Jianhua Zhang, Fei Wang*

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Abstract

The atmospheric CO2 enrichment can seriously affect rice root growth. Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation, which can also increase root growth, is a widely promoted water-saving technology for future climate, yet how elevated CO2 (eCO2) influences rice root growth under AWD remains unclear. In the present study, we examined the root growth of Yangdao 6 (YD 6) and Koshihikari (KOS) cultured under different water irrigation regimes (well-watered and AWD) and CO2 concentration (400 and 800 ppm). AWD reduced shoot dry weight of KOS compared with WW under ambient CO2 (400 ppm, aCO2), while the shoot dry weight of KOS showed no difference between WW and AWD treatments under eCO2. Additional, under aCO2, AWD did not affect the exhibited similar root dry weight, length, total surface area, and volume of YD 6 and KOS relative to WW. However, under eCO2, AWD significantly promoted the root dry weight, root length, total root surface area, and root volume of YD 6 and KOS. Furthermore, root ABA content of YD 6 and KOS was significantly higher under AWD than under WW. Then, the OsNCED3 (a key gene for ABA biosynthesis) RNAi lines were used to check the role of ABA in root growth under eCO2 with AWD conditions. The results showed that AWD increased the ABA content and root parameters of WT but not the OsNCED3 RNAi lines under eCO2. Overall, the results suggest that eCO2 can improve rice root growth under AWD by involving root ABA, which contributes to the understanding of water-saving irrigation on rice in the future climate.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere442
Number of pages11
JournalFood and Energy Security
Volume12
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2023

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Forestry
  • Food Science
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Agronomy and Crop Science

User-Defined Keywords

  • ABA concentration
  • CO2 concentration
  • growth
  • irrigation regime
  • Rice

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