Subject Areas : Journal of Crop Ecophysiology

Alieza Beigi ¹ , Farshad Ghooshchi ² , حمیدرضا توحیدی مقدم ³ , Pourang Kasraei ⁴

1 - Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva Branch
2 - Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Tehran, Iran
3 - دانشگاه آزاد- ورامین
4 - Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva Branch

Received: 2023-03-03 Accepted : 2023-08-06 Published : 2024-09-22

Keywords: Carbohydrate, Drought, Foliage yield, Methyl jasmonate, Osmolyte, Pigment, Potassium, Zea maize.,

Abstract :

This research was carried out in order to investigate the effect of potassium and methyl jasmonate on the morphophysiological characteristics and yield of forage corn under water deficit conditions in Neishabur region in 2019. The experimental factors was conducted as a split factorial plot in a randomized complete block design include irrigation regimes as the main factor in three levels, including consumption of 25, 40 and 55% of available soil water and then irrigation up to the field capacity (named as a well-watered, moderate and severe water deficit stress, respectively), potassium fertilizer as the secondary factor was applied at three levels of 0 kg.ha-1, 100 kg.ha-1 and 200 kg.ha-1, and methyl jasmonate was applied as another factor at 0 µM, 50 µM and 100 µM. The results showed that the highest amounts of total chlorophyll (2.47 mg.g-1 FW), leaf area index (4.95), forage dry weight (37838 kg.ha-1) and forage potassium content (215.5 %) were obtained in well-watered irrigation and 200 kg potassium sulfate ha-1 and with increasing in water deficit severity, the above values were reduced. Severe water deficit stress causes a decrease of 2.7%, 2.4%, 43.8%, 48.7% and 23.9%, respectively, in relative water content of leaf, carotenoids, leaf dry weight, soluble sugars and leaf protein compared to well-watered. Among the fertilizer treatment, 200 kg potassium sulfate ha-1 had the highest relative water content of leaf (72.9%), carotenoid (0.43 mg.g-1 FW), leaf dry weight (177.1 g.m-2), leaf soluble sugars (528.6 mg.g-1 FW) and protein (8.22%). Also, among the methyl jasmonate levels, the concentration of 100 μM had the greatest effect. In general, it was found that the application of potassium and methyl jasmonate treatments moderated the negative effects of water deficit and this adjustment increased with the increase in the concentration of potassium and methyl jasmonate treatments. Indeed, it is suggested to growing NS6010 variety without water deficit stress in Neyshabur climatic conditions in order to achieve the maximum fodder yield.

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