Natural Variation for Nutrient Use and Remobilization Efficiencies in Switchgrass
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Natural Variation for Nutrient Use and Remobilization Efficiencies in Switchgrass Jiading Yang & Eric Worley & Mingyi Wang & Brett Lahner & David E. Salt & Malay Saha & Michael Udvardi
Published online: 14 October 2009 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC. 2009
Abstract Nutrient management in biomass production systems serves to maximize yield and minimize production costs and environmental impact. Loss of soil nutrients with harvested biomass can be reduced by the judicious choice of genotype and harvest time. Sustainable production of switchgrass for biofuel will depend, in part, on breeding of varieties that are conservative in their use of soil nutrients to produce biomass. To aid such breeding programs, we assessed the natural variation in nutrient-use and remobilization efficiencies of 31 accessions of Panicum virgatum by measuring the concentration of 20 elements (N, P, K, Li, B, Na, Mg, Ca, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Rb, Sr, Mo, and Cd) in shoots of field-grown plants harvested at two different stages of development. Significant differences between accessions were found for elemental composition at maturity and after senescence. The concentration of several elements (N, P, K, and Rb) decreased in the shoots of all accessions during senescence, although the efficiency Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12155-009-9055-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. J. Yang : E. Worley : M. Wang : M. Udvardi (*) Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA e-mail: [email protected] M. Saha Forage Improvement Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 2510 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA B. Lahner : D. E. Salt Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
of remobilization ranged from 20% to 61% for N, 31% to 65% for P, 25% for 84% for K, and 33% to 84% for Rb. The accessions/cultivars with the greatest nutrient-use efficiency (smallest loss of nutrient per unit biomass) were BN-14668-65, Kanlow, Caddo from the point of view of N content, and Kanlow, Cave-in-Rock, and Blackwell from the point of view of P content in senescent shoots. Finally, differences in elemental composition between upland and lowland ecotypes were also found. The information presented here will help to guide future breeding programs and nutrient management practices. Keywords Switchgrass . Nutrient remobilization . Accessions . Ecotypes Abbreviations ha Hectare, 10,000 m2 PCA Principle component analysis PCC Pearson correlation coefficient RE Remobilization efficiency
Introduction The current use of fossil fuels for energy is unsustainable, not only because fossil fuel reserves are finite but also because of its environmental impact [7, 19]. Biofuel derived from biomass/photosynthesis is an alternative to fossil fuel that is economically feasible, environmentally benign, and socially acceptable [19]. Since the mid-1980s,
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