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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2018, Vol. 17 Issue (05): 1106-1119    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61797-0
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Effects of planting dates and shading on carbohydrate content, yield, and fiber quality in cotton with respect to fruiting positions
ZHAO Wen-qing, WU You, Zahoor Rizwan, WANG You-hua, MA Yi-na, CHEN Bing-lin, MENG Ya-li, ZHOU Zhi-guo
Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology Ecology and Production Management, Ministry of Agriculture/Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production (JCIC-MCP), Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P.R.China
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Abstract  Two cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) cultivars, Kemian 1 (cool temperature-tolerant) and Sumian 15 (cool temperature-sensitive) were used to study the effects of cool temperature on carbohydrates, yield, and fiber quality in cotton bolls located at different fruiting positions (FP).  Cool temperatures were created using late planting and low light.  The experiment was conducted in 2010 and 2011 using two planting dates (OPD, the optimized planting date, 25 April; LPD, the late planting date, 10 June) and two shading levels of crop relative light rate (CRLR, 100 and 60%).  Compared with fruiting position 1 (FP1), cotton yield and yield components (fiber quality, leaf sucrose and starch content, and fiber cellulose) were all decreased on FP3 under all treatments.  Compared with OPD-CRLR 100%, other treatments (OPD-CRLR 60%, LPD-CRLR 100%, and LPD-CRLR 60%) had significantly decreased lint yield at both FPs of both cultivars, but especially at FP3 and in Sumian 15; this decrease was mainly caused by a large decline in boll number.  All fiber quality indices decreased under late planting and shading except fiber length at FP1 with OPD-CRLR 60%, and a greater reduction was observed at FP3 and in Sumian 15.  Sucrose content of the subtending leaf and fiber increased under LPD compared to OPD, whereas it decreased under CRLR 60% compared to CRLR 100%, which led to decreased fiber cellulose content.  Therefore, shading primarily decreased the “source” sucrose content in the subtending leaf whereas late planting diminished translocation of sucrose towards cotton fiber.  Notably, as planting date was delayed and light was decreased, more carbohydrates were distributed to leaf and bolls at FP1 than those at FP3, resulting in higher yield and better fiber quality at FP1, and a higher proportion of bolls and carbohydrates allocated at FP3 of Kemian 1 compared to that of Sumian 15.  In conclusion, cotton yield and fiber quality were reduced less at FP1 compared to those at FP3 under low temperature and low light conditions.  Thus, reduced cotton yield and fiber quality loss can be minimized by selecting low temperature tolerant cultivars under both low temperature and light conditions.
Keywords:  cotton        planting date and shading        fruiting position        yield        fiber quality  
Received: 24 May 2017   Accepted:
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31271654, 31401327, 31471444), the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest, China (201203096), and the Jiangsu Overseas Research & Training Program for University Prominent Young & Middle-aged Teachers and Presidents, China (2016).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence ZHOU Zhi-guo, Tel/Fax: +86-25-84396813, E-mail: giscott@njau.edu.cn    

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ZHAO Wen-qing, WU You, Zahoor Rizwan, WANG You-hua, MA Yi-na, CHEN Bing-lin, MENG Ya-li, ZHOU Zhi-guo. 2018. Effects of planting dates and shading on carbohydrate content, yield, and fiber quality in cotton with respect to fruiting positions. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 17(05): 1106-1119.

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