Improving the phenotypic expression of rice genotypes:Rethinking “intensification” for production systems and selection practices for rice breeding

作     者：Norman Uphoff Vasilia Fasoula Anas Iswandi Amir Kassam Amod K.Thakur 

作者机构：SRI-Rice 624 Bradfield Hall Cornell University Institute of Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics University of Georgia Soil Biotechnology Laboratory Deptof Soil Science and Land Resources Faculty of Agriculture Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) Bogor West Java 16680 Indonesia School of Agriculture Policy and Development University of Reading Reading RG6 6AR UK ICAR-Directorate of Water Management Bhubaneswar 751023 India 

出 版 物：《The Crop Journal》 (作物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第3卷第3期

页      面：174-189页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 09[农学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0902[农学-园艺学] 

主　　题：Expression of genetic potential Rice phenotypes Selection criteria for plant breeding Selection efficiency System of Rice Intensification 

摘      要：Intensification in rice crop production is generally understood as requiring increased use of material inputs: water, inorganic fertilizers, and agrochemicals. However, this is not the only kind of intensification available. More productive crop phenotypes, with traits such as more resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses and shorter crop cycles, are possible through modifications in the management of rice plants, soil, water, and nutrients, reducing rather than increasing material inputs. Greater factor productivity can be achieved through the application of new knowledge and more skill, and(initially) more labor, as seen from the System of Rice Intensification(SRI), whose practices are used in various combinations by as many as 10 million farmers on about 4 million hectares in over 50 countries. The highest yields achieved with these management methods have come from hybrids and improved rice varieties, confirming the importance of making genetic improvements. However,unimproved varieties are also responsive to these changes, which induce better growth and functioning of rice root systems and more abundance, diversity, and activity of beneficial soil organisms. Some of these organisms as symbiotic endophytes can affect and enhance the expression of rice plants genetic potential as well as their phenotypic resilience to multiple stresses, including those of climate change. SRI experience and data suggest that decades of plant breeding have been selecting for the best crop genetic endowments under suboptimal growing conditions, with crowding of plants that impedes their photosynthesis and growth, flooding of rice paddies that causes roots to degenerate and forgoes benefits derived from aerobic soil organisms, and overuse of agrochemicals that adversely affect these organisms as well as soil and human health. This review paper reports evidence from research in India and Indonesia that changes in crop and water management can improve the expression of rice plants g