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Hossard L, Philibert A, Bertrand M, Colnenne-David C, Debaeke P, Munier-Jolain N, Jeuffroy MH, Richard G, Makowski D. Effects of halving pesticide use on wheat production. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4405. [PMID: 24651597 PMCID: PMC3960944 DOI: 10.1038/srep04405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pesticides pose serious threats to both human health and the environment. In Europe, farmers are encouraged to reduce their use, and in France a recent environmental policy fixed a target of halving the pesticide use by 2018. Organic and integrated cropping systems have been proposed as possible solutions for reducing pesticide use, but the effect of reducing pesticide use on crop yield remains unclear. Here we use a set of cropping system experiments to quantify the yield losses resulting from a reduction of pesticide use for winter wheat in France. Our estimated yield losses resulting from a 50% reduction in pesticide use ranged from 5 to 13% of the yield obtained with the current pesticide use. At the scale of the whole country, these losses would decrease the French wheat production by about 2 to 3 millions of tons, which represent about 15% of the French wheat export.
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- L. Hossard
- INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- INRA, UMR1248 AGIR, F-31320 Castanet-Tolosan, France
- Université de Toulouse, INPT, UMR AGIR, F-31029 Toulouse, France
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- INRA, UMR1347 Agroecologie, F-21065 Dijon, France
- AgroSup Dijon, UMR Agroecologie, F-21065 Dijon, France
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- INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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- INRA, UAR1155 Département Environnement et Agronomie, F-84914 Avignon, France
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- INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
- AgroParisTech, UMR Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
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Lemontey C, Mousset-Déclas C, Munier-Jolain N, Boutin JP. Maternal genotype influences pea seed size by controlling both mitotic activity during early embryogenesis and final endoreduplication level/cotyledon cell size in mature seed. J Exp Bot 2000; 51:167-75. [PMID: 10938823 DOI: 10.1093/jexbot/51.343.167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
When reciprocal crosses are made between different pea genotypes, there is a strong maternal influence on mature seed size of the reciprocal hybrids, i.e. their dry weights are similar to that of seeds obtained from their maternal parents. Reciprocal crosses between pea varieties having very different mature seed sizes were used to investigate how the maternal genotype controls seed development and mature seed size. The differences in dry seed weight between genotypes and reciprocal hybrids reflected differences in both cotyledon cell number and mean cell volume, and the maternal control on the establishment of these two traits was investigated. Using flow cytometry, data relative to endoreduplication kinetics in cotyledons during the transition between the cell division phase and maturation were obtained. The appearance of nuclei having an 8C DNA content indicates the initiation of the endoreduplication phenomenon and thus the end of the cell division phase. It was shown that the duration of the cell division phase was the same in the reciprocal hybrids, its value being intermediate between those recorded for their maternal parents. This result indicates that the timing of development of the embryo is not under maternal control, but depends on its own genotype. Consequently, maternal genotype must influence the mitotic rate during the cell division phase to achieve differences in cell number found in the cotyledons of mature F1-reciprocal hybrids. The final level of endoreduplication in cotyledons of mature seeds was also investigated. This study showed that there is a close relationship (r2 = 0.919) between the endoreduplication level in mature cotyledons and seed dry weight or mean volume of cotyledon cells, suggesting that both maternal and non-maternal factors could control the number of endoreduplicating cycles in the cotyledons and, hypothetically, the cotyledon cell size.
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- C Lemontey
- INRA, Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Métabolisme et la Nutrition des Plantes, Versailles, France
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