ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Differential Effect of Day and Night Temperature
Regimes on the Growth and Biochemical
Attributes of Violet Rape
(Brassica campestris ssp. chinensis L.)
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School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Submission date: 2017-10-06
Final revision date: 2017-12-02
Acceptance date: 2017-12-14
Online publication date: 2018-07-04
Publication date: 2018-07-09
Corresponding author
Muhmmad Bilal
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China, SJTU, 200240 Shanghai, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(6):2553-2560
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ABSTRACT
The present study investigated the influences of different day and night temperature regimes
on the growth of violet rape (Brassica rapa var. chinensis) and pinpointed the optimal temperature
combination for both yield and quality of the plant. For this purpose, the plants were grown under
6 temperature combination conditions: W1 (30/20ºC, 12-h light/12-h dark), W2 (25/15ºC, 12-h light/12-h
dark), W3 (20/10ºC, 12-h light/12-h dark), W4 (30/15°C, 12-h light/12-h dark), W5 (25/10ºC, 12-h light/12-h
dark), and W6 (30/10ºC, 12-h light/12-h dark), and in addition we measured various morphological, yield,
and biochemical traits. Results demonstrated that temperature regimes considerably affected the growth
parameters of the violet rape compared with control. The W3 treatment with an average temperature of
20/10ºC displayed the highest plant growth traits, including plant height (12.74±0.24 cm), leaf length
(8.20±0.08 cm), leaf width (5.44±0.16 cm), and leaf area (33.46±0.83 cm2). Moreover, a highly significant
correlation (p<0.05) was found between temperature and soluble protein, chlorophyll, anthocyanin,
nitrate nitrogen contents, and root activity; whereas the vitamin C and soluble sugar contents remained
significantly unaffected except in the W1 treatment, under different temperature combinations between
day and night. This study concluded that high temperature exerts an adverse effect on plant growth, and
therefore a low day and night temperature combination is suggested in order to achieve high yield and
quality for irrigated violet rape.