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Carbohydrate remobilization from storage root to leaves after a stress release in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.): experimental and modelling approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

M. LAUNAY ,
A.-I. GRAUX ,
N. BRISSON  and
M. GUERIF
M. LAUNAY*
Affiliation:
Unite Agroclim, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
A.-I. GRAUX
Affiliation:
Unite UNREP, INRA, Site de Crouël, 234 Avenue du Brézet, 63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France
N. BRISSON
Affiliation:
Unite Agroclim, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
M. GUERIF
Affiliation:
Unite EMMAH, INRA, Site Agroparc, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France
*
*To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Email: Marie.Launay@avignon.inra.fr
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Summary

Carbohydrate remobilization from the sugar beet storage root to support leaf regrowth after release from water stress was demonstrated by experimental and modelling approaches. Experimental trials were carried out in northern France in 1994 and 1995 and in southern France in 2005, in conditions that involved a succession of soil moisture stresses and re-hydrations. Drought stress slowed leaf growth and the subsequent release of stress resulted in regrowth. A second trial showed that after total defoliation, sugar beet was able to produce new leaves. It was assumed that this leaf renewal, observed at drought stress release or after defoliation, relied on the possibility of remobilizing carbohydrates from storage roots to above-ground organs. This assumption was tested through a heuristic modelling approach, involving the STICS crop model and its existing sub-model on remobilization. The relevance of these formalizations for sugar beet was tested on the experimental data to validate the plant behaviour concerning remobilization. The model succeeded in reproducing leaf area index (LAI) dynamic trends and particularly leaf re-growth after drought stress release or defoliation, despite an over-estimation of the drought stress effect involving an inaccurate simulation of the changes in LAI. Nevertheless, the model's ability to forecast accurately above-ground and storage root dry weight, as well as trends in LAI dynamics, showed that the assumptions made about remobilization were able to explain sugar beet behaviour.

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Crops and Soils
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 147 , Issue 6 , December 2009 , pp. 669 - 682
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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