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Temperature Effects on Tuber Production and Carbohydrates Partitioning in Different Cultivars during Consecutive Stages of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Growth

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The main objective of this study was to assess responses of mid-early (Spunta) and mid-late (Bellini) potato cultivars to different temperature regimes during subsequent stages of potato growth. The impact of high temperature (25/22 °C day/night), low temperature (18/16 °C day/night) and intermediate temperature (20/18 °C day/night) was evaluated for different growth stages. Data were obtained for photosynthesis, carbohydrates in leaves, stems and tubers as well as production parameters. Enzyme activities were determined for sucrose-phosphate synthase in leaves, acid invertase in stems and acid and neutral invertases in tubers. Gene expression levels of relevant sugar metabolizing enzymes was quantified. A detailed correlation analysis revealed a strong impact of the expression level of sugar metabolizing enzymes in leaves on the final number of tubers per plant. Whereas total tuber yield increases with temperature, the number of tubers per plant was highest under low temperature conditions. Our data suggest an important role of the temperature on the length of the different growth stages.

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Abbreviations

HT:

High temperature

LT:

Low temperature

IT:

Intermediate temperature

Temp:

Temperature

Prot:

Protein

SPS:

Sucrose-Phosphate Synthase

SuSy:

Sucrose Synthase

AGPase:

Adenine Diphosphoglucose Pyrophosphorylase

Invert:

Invertase

SD:

Short day

LD:

Long day

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Acknowledgements

Authors are grateful to Daniel Hey and Andreas Richter for helping in PAM photosynthesis measures, Daniel Wittman and Patrick Schall for protein analysis, Aleksandra Hackelfor excellent technical assistance, Angelika Pötter for attending plant growth and development in the greenhouse. We gratefully acknowledge Hannah Jaspar for proof-reading of the manuscript. The present work was supported by the University of Sousse, Tunisia and the DFG SPP1530 to C.K..The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article to disclose.

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    Khaoula Mokrani & Neji Tarchoun

  2. Institute of Biology, Plant Physiology, Humboldt University, Philippstrabe 13, Building 12, 10115, Berlin, Germany

    Christina Kühn

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Key message: Re-evaluation of earlier reports regarding temperature effects on potato tuber yield using two different, mid-early and mid-late ripening potato varieties led to unexpected results for most of the determined crop parameters such as carbon partitioning, carbon metabolism, tuber yield and time of tuber maturation.

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Mokrani, K., Kühn, C. & Tarchoun, N. Temperature Effects on Tuber Production and Carbohydrates Partitioning in Different Cultivars during Consecutive Stages of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Growth. Potato Res. 66, 275–299 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11540-022-09543-2

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