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Differential heat sensitivity of two cool‐season legumes, chickpea and lentil, at the reproductive stage, is associated with responses in pollen function, photosynthetic ability and oxidative damage

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https://doi.org/10.1111/jac.12433
doi:10.1111/jac.12433
 
Title Differential heat sensitivity of two cool‐season legumes, chickpea and lentil, at the reproductive stage, is associated with responses in pollen function, photosynthetic ability and oxidative damage
 
Creator Bhandari, K
Sita, K
Sehgal, A
Bhardwaj, A
Gaur, P
Kumar, S
Singh, S
Siddique, K H M
Prasad, P V V
Jha, U
Nayyar, H
 
Subject Chickpea
Legume Crops
 
Description Increasing temperatures are adversely affecting various food crops, including legumes,
and this issue requires attention. The growth of two cool-season food legumes,
chickpea and lentil, is inhibited by high temperatures but their relative sensitivity to
heat stress and the underlying reasons have not been investigated. Moreover, the
high-temperature thresholds for these two legumes have not been well-characterised.
In the present study, three chickpea (ICCVO7110, ICC5912 and ICCV92944) and
two lentil (LL699 and LL931) genotypes, having nearly similar phenology with respect
to flowering, were grown at 30/20°C (day/night; control) until the onset of flowering
and subsequently exposed to varying high temperatures (35/25, 38/28, 40/30
and 42/32°C; day/night) in a controlled environment (growth chamber; 12 hr/12 hr;
light intensity 750 μmol m−2 s−1; RH-70%) at 108 days after sowing for both the species.
Phenology (podding, maturity) was accelerated in both the species; the days to
podding declined more in lentil at 35/25 (2.8 days) and 38/28°C (11.3 days) than in
chickpea (1.7 and 7.1 days, respectively). Heat stress decreased flowering–podding
and podding–maturity intervals considerably in both the species. At higher temperatures,
no podding was observed in lentil, while chickpea showed reduction of 14.9
and 16.1 days at 40/30 and 42/32°C, respectively. Maturity was accelerated on 15.3
and 12.5 days at 38/28°C, 33.6 and 34 days at 40/30°C and 45.6 and 47 days at
42/32°C, in chickpea and lentil, respectively. Consequently, biomass decreased considerably
at 38/28°C in both the species to limit the yield-related traits. Lentil was
significantly more sensitive to heat stress, with the damage—assessed as reduction
in biomass, reproductive function-related traits (pollen viability, germination, pollen
tube growth and stigma receptivity), leaf traits such as membrane injury, leaf
water status, photochemical efficiency, chlorophyll concentration, carbon fixation
and assimilation, and oxidative stress, appearing even at 35/25°C, compared with
38/28°C, in chickpea. The expression of enzymatic antioxidants such as superoxide
dismutase, catalase, ascorbate peroxidase, glutathione reductase and non-enzymatic antioxidants declined remarkably with heat stress, more so in lentil than in chickpea.
Carbon fixation (assessed as Rubisco activity) and assimilation (assessed as sucrose
concentration, sucrose synthase activity) were also reduced more in lentil than in
chickpea, at all the stressful temperatures, resulting in more inhibition of plant biomass
(shoot + roots), damage to reproductive function and severe reduction in pods
and seeds. At 38/28°C, lentil showed 43% reduction in biomass, while it declined by
17.2% in chickpea at the same time, over the control temperature (30/20°C). At this
temperature, lentil showed 53% and 46% reduction in pods and seed yield, compared
to 13.4% and 22% decrease in chickpea at the same temperature. At 40/30°C, lentil
did not produce any pods, while chickpea was able to produce few pods at this temperature.
This study identified that lentil is considerably more sensitive to heat stress
than chickpea, as a result of more damage to leaves (photosynthetic ability; oxidative
injury) and reproductive components (pollen function, etc.) at 35/25°C and above, at
controlled conditions.
 
Publisher Wiley
 
Date 2020-07
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11785/1/jac.12433.pdf
Bhandari, K and Sita, K and Sehgal, A and Bhardwaj, A and Gaur, P and Kumar, S and Singh, S and Siddique, K H M and Prasad, P V V and Jha, U and Nayyar, H (2020) Differential heat sensitivity of two cool‐season legumes, chickpea and lentil, at the reproductive stage, is associated with responses in pollen function, photosynthetic ability and oxidative damage. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science (TSI), 206 (6). pp. 734-758. ISSN 0931-2250