Photosynthetica, 2020 (vol. 58), SPECIAL ISSUE

Photosynthetica 2020, 58(2):622-637 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.016

Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Phenotyping with fast fluorescence sensors approximates yield component measurements in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)

S. LENK1, J.A. DIELEMAN2, V. LEFEBVRE3, E. HEUVELINK5, J.J. MAGÁN6, A. PALLOIX3,†, F.A. VAN EEUWIJK7, A. BARÓCSI1
1 Department of Atomic Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budafoki út 8, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
2 Wageningen University & Research, Business Unit Greenhouse Horticulture, PO Box 644, 6700 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands
3 INRAE, UR 1052 GAFL Genetics and Breeding of Fruit and Vegetables, F-84143 Montfavet Cedex, France
5 Wageningen University & Research, Horticulture and Product Physiology Group, Wageningen, The Netherlands
6 Experimental Station of Cajamar Foundation, Paraje Las Palmerillas - El Ejido, Almería, Spain
7 Wageningen University and Research, Biometris Applied Statistics, P.O. Box 100, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

Molecular breeding, a powerful technique to increase crop yield, tries to predict yield by crop growth models with genotype specific, environment-independent yield components and environmental indices as inputs. A fluorescence-trait-based approach is presented to approximate some costly and time-consuming measurements of yield components. Temporal monitoring of chlorophyll a fluorescence resulted in fluorescence traits with high heritability (0.60-0.82) that could act as proxies for model inputs. Medium-sized Pearson's correlations were calculated between fluorescence traits, light-use efficiency (LUE), and fruit related parameters up to 0.53. Multi-trait quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses identified genomic regions of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) involved in the phenotypic variation of the fluorescence traits. Fluorescence QTLs found on linkage groups P6, P7, and P11 corresponded to QTLs for number of fruits, partitioning into fruits, and LUE. Fluorescence parameters within 1 min of the fluorescence response curve can thus be useful to approximate yield component traits.

Keywords: complex trait; genotypic heritability; intelligent fluorosensor; plant phenotyping.

Received: August 30, 2019; Revised: February 4, 2020; Accepted: February 13, 2020; Prepublished online: April 4, 2020; Published: April 7, 2020Show citation

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LENK, S., DIELEMAN, J.A., LEFEBVRE, V., HEUVELINK, E., MAGÁN, J.J., PALLOIX, A., EEUWIJK, F.A., & BARÓCSI, A. (2020). Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser – Phenotyping with fast fluorescence sensors approximates yield component measurements in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). Photosynthetica, 58(SPECIAL ISSUE), 622-637. doi: 10.32615/ps.2020.016.
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