Abstract:
Lodging is one of the factors affecting high yield and quality of oil flax, and preventing lodging is urgently needed in oil flax production.Aiming at providing theoretical basis of paclobutrazol regulation for high yield and quality, a field experiment was conducted to study the effects of foliar paclobutrazol application on grain yield and lodging resistance traits of oil flax.Four treatments including three paclobutrazol concentrations were designed as follows:50 mg·L
-1(A1), 100 mg·L
-1(A2), 150 mg·L
-1(A3), and water as a control(A0), by foliar application at budding and flowering stages.The results showed that different concentrations of paclobutrazol significantly decreased plant height and plant gravity height by 8.91% and 10.6% in the whole growth period, respectively.The stem diameter in different treatments reached a maximum value at fruit greening stage, with the greatest increase in A3 treatment, which significantly increased by 24.3% compared with that of A0.The stem wall thickness in different treatments reached a maximum value at budding stage and then dropped down; A1 treatment was with the greatest wall thickness at fruit greening and maturing stages, increased by 11.8% and 14.9% than that of A0, respectively.A2 treatment was in a great effect on lodging index, which was 30.0% and 25.3% higher than that of A0, respectively.Moreover, correlation analysis showed that plant height and plant gravity height were in a negative correlation with lodging index significantly at budding period, while stem wall thickness and diameter were in a positive correlation with lodging index significantly at maturing period.The lignin and cellulose contents were in an increasing trend with the growth period, with the greatest contents of A2 treatment at maturing stage, 12.3% and 8.43% higher than that of A0, respectively.The grain yield of oil flax in different concentrations of paclobutrazol was in a decreasing order as A2, A3 and A1, and yield increasing rate of A1, A2 and A3 was 10.0%, 17.9% and 13.9%, respectively.Therefore, A2 was an optimal treatment in enhancing the lodging resistance effectively and grain yield of oil flax.