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Article Dans Une Revue Agronomy for Sustainable Development Année : 2015

Pea nodule gradients explain N nutrition and limited symbiotic fixation in hypernodulating mutants

Anne-Sophie Voisin
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Marion Prudent
Gérard Duc
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Christophe Salon

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AbstractLegumes fix atmospheric nitrogen by symbiosis with soil bacteria in root nodules. Legume yields are limited by the low capacity of N2 fixation. Hypernodulating mutants have been selected decades ago to try to increase nodule number. However, literature data show that N fixation of hypernodulating mutants was not increased compared to parental lines. Here, we study the functional basis of limited N fixation associated to hypernodulation. We grew two wild type genotypes and nine hypernodulating mutants of pea in hydroponics in three greenhouse experiments. We measured the following traits related to N nutrition during the vegetative period: nodule number, plant N uptake, nodule-specific activity, and plant and nodule concentrations. Genetic and environmental variations induced nodule gradients. These gradients were used to set quantitative relationships between N nutrition traits and nodule number. We compared the relationships obtained for hypernodulating and for wild types. N nutrition traits were analysed together with C nutrition traits, through correlation networks. Our results show that higher nodule number of hypernodulating mutants is correlated with lower levels of nodule activity, from −25 to −60 %, by comparison to the wild type. Higher nodule number of hypernodulating mutants is also correlated with lower total N uptake by symbiotic fixation, from −0 to −60 %, by comparison to the wild type. Findings demonstrate that N nutrition is not a factor limiting growth in hypernodulating mutants, as shown by N nutrition index higher than 1, indicating N nutrition in excess. The correlations suggest that limited N2 fixation in hypernodulating mutants arises from restricted shoot growth, which limits the plant capacity to accumulate N. Furthermore, symbiotic efficiency decreased with increasing nodule number, down to a minimal value for hypernodulating mutants. Thus, to overcome the trade-off between N benefits from N2 fixation and carbon nodulation costs, the hypernodulation trait should be associated with high shoot growth capacity in breeding programs.
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Anne-Sophie Voisin, Marion Prudent, Gérard Duc, Christophe Salon. Pea nodule gradients explain N nutrition and limited symbiotic fixation in hypernodulating mutants. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2015, 35 (4), pp.0. ⟨10.1007/s13593-015-0328-8⟩. ⟨hal-01353750⟩
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