biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 64:660-666, 2020 | DOI: 10.32615/bp.2020.103

Tensile strength of the rachilla in spikelets of Polish Festulolium braunii cultivars

B. GOLIŃSKA, P. GOLIŃSKI*
Department of Grassland and Natural Landscape Sciences, Poznan University of Life Sciences, PL-60632 Poznań, Poland

The aim of this study was to evaluate the tensile strength of the rachilla in spikelets of Polish cultivars of Festulolium braunii (K. Rich.) A. Camus during seed development and maturation. The investigations were carried out in 2009 - 2010 at the Plant Breeding, Szelejewo, Poland. The inflorescences were randomly harvested in June - July from plant collection in maintenance breeding of three Polish cultivars (Agula, Felopa, and Sulino). Using a specifically developed testing machine, tensile strength of the rachilla of individual spikelets were determined. Regardless of the F. braunii cultivar, the tensile strength of the rachilla decreased through consecutive growth stages. The highest tensile strength of the rachilla was observed during the phase of kernel watery ripe stage (BBCH 71) - it ranged from 510.1 mN in 'Agula' to 592.0 mN in 'Felopa'. At the fully ripe phase (BBCH 89), the value of this trait ranged from 19.2 mN in 'Agula' to 45.0 mN in 'Felopa'. It was also observed that in all tested cultivars of F. braunii, the spikelets located in the lower part of the spike were characterised by the highest tensile strength of the rachilla, whereas those in the upper part were characterised by the lowest values of this trait. This means that the caryopses in the spikelets located at the lower part of the inflorescence were less susceptible to shedding. Seed shedding the Polish F. braunii cultivars, especially 'Agula' and 'Sulino', may start as early dough and soft dough phases. By contrast, seed shedding 'Felopa' is moved to the later phases of seed maturation.

Keywords: growth stage, seed development, seed maturation, seed shedding.

Received: May 11, 2020; Revised: June 17, 2020; Accepted: July 13, 2020; Published online: September 21, 2020  Show citation

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GOLIŃSKA, B., & GOLIŃSKI, P. (2020). Tensile strength of the rachilla in spikelets of Polish Festulolium braunii cultivars. Biologia plantarum, 64, Article 660-666. https://doi.org/10.32615/bp.2020.103
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