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Chloride Improves Nitrate Utilization and NUE in Plants.


ABSTRACT: Chloride (Cl-) has traditionally been considered harmful to agriculture because of its toxic effects in saline soils and its antagonistic interaction with nitrate (NO3 -), which impairs NO3 - nutrition. It has been largely believed that Cl- antagonizes NO3 - uptake and accumulation in higher plants, reducing crop yield. However, we have recently uncovered that Cl- has new beneficial macronutrient, functions that improve plant growth, tissue water balance, plant water relations, photosynthetic performance, and water-use efficiency. The increased plant biomass indicates in turn that Cl- may also improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). Considering that N availability is a bottleneck for the plant growth, the excessive NO3 - fertilization frequently used in agriculture becomes a major environmental concern worldwide, causing excessive leaf NO3 - accumulation in crops like vegetables and, consequently, a potential risk to human health. New farming practices aimed to enhance plant NUE by reducing NO3 - fertilization should promote a healthier and more sustainable agriculture. Given the strong interaction between Cl- and NO3 - homeostasis in plants, we have verified if indeed Cl- affects NO3 - accumulation and NUE in plants. For the first time to our knowledge, we provide a direct demonstration which shows that Cl-, contrary to impairing of NO3 - nutrition, facilitates NO3 - utilization and improves NUE in plants. This is largely due to Cl- improvement of the N-NO3 - utilization efficiency (NUTE), having little or moderate effect on N-NO3 - uptake efficiency (NUPE) when NO3 - is used as the sole N source. Clear positive correlations between leaf Cl- content vs. NUE/NUTE or plant growth have been established at both intra- and interspecies levels. Optimal NO3 - vs. Cl- ratios become a useful tool to increase crop yield and quality, agricultural sustainability and reducing the negative ecological impact of NO3 - on the environment and on human health.

SUBMITTER: Rosales MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7264407 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Chloride Improves Nitrate Utilization and NUE in Plants.

Rosales Miguel A MA   Franco-Navarro Juan D JD   Peinado-Torrubia Procopio P   Díaz-Rueda Pablo P   Álvarez Rosario R   Colmenero-Flores José M JM  

Frontiers in plant science 20200526


Chloride (Cl<sup>-</sup>) has traditionally been considered harmful to agriculture because of its toxic effects in saline soils and its antagonistic interaction with nitrate (NO<sub>3</sub> <sup>-</sup>), which impairs NO<sub>3</sub> <sup>-</sup> nutrition. It has been largely believed that Cl<sup>-</sup> antagonizes NO<sub>3</sub> <sup>-</sup> uptake and accumulation in higher plants, reducing crop yield. However, we have recently uncovered that Cl<sup>-</sup> has new beneficial macronutrient,  ...[more]

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