Slight drought during flowering period can improve Tartary buckwheat yield by regulating carbon and nitrogen metabolism.

This study aimed to clarify the effects of drought during flowering period on the carbon and nitrogen metabolism, growth, and yield of Tartary buckwheat. Tartary buckwheat cultivar Jinqiao 2 was treated with well-watered (CK), slight soil-drought stress (LD), moderate soil-drought stress (MD), and severe soil-drought stress (SD), with the soil water potential maintained at - 0.02 to - 0.

Strigolactones affect the yield of Tartary buckwheat by regulating endogenous hormone levels.

Background: As a newly class of endogenous phytohormones, strigolactones (SLs) regulate crop growth and yield formation by interacting with other hormones. However, the physiological mechanism of SLs affect the yield by regulating the balance of endogenous hormones of Tartary buckwheat is still unclear.

Results: In this study, a 2-year field experiment was conducted on Tartary buckwheat (Jinqiao 2) to study the effects of different concentrations (0, 10, and 20 µmol/L) of artificial synthetic analogs of SLs (rac-GR24) and inhibitor of SL synthesis (Tis-108) on the growth, endogenous-hormone content, and yield of Tartary buckwheat.

[Effects of phytoremediation on soil enzyme activity and thermodynamic characteristics of enzymatic reaction in severe saline-alkali land.].

With the environmental changes and the increases of anthropogenic disturbance, the area and degree of salinization in saline-alkaline lands of Songnen Plain have been increasing with an unprecedented rate. In this study, the effects of restoration of natural vegetation, , and on the enzymatic activities and thermomechanical characteristics of enzyme catalyzed reaction of two oxidoreductases (catalase, polyphenol oxidase) and three hydrolases (alkaline phosphatase, sucrase, urease) were investigated in heavily saline-alkaline soils from western Songnen Plain. The results showed that the activities of those five soil enzyme as well as the activation free energy (Δ) increased with increasing temperature, reaching respective maximum at 40 and 45 ℃.