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This study evaluated the effects of biochar application on sodium ion accumulation, yield and quality of rice in saline-sodic soil by using a pot experiment. Rice was grown in the soil with no biochar, 15 g biochar per kilogram soil, 30 g biochar per kilogram soil and 45 g biochar per kilogram soil. The results indicated that biochar application significantly decreased sodium ion accumulation of rice plant parts, while it obviously increased rice dry biomass, grain yield and improved rice quality. The results suggested that biochar application to saline-sodic paddy soil has benefits to reduce stress and promote the increase of rice yield and quality formation in saline-sodic soil.

Root systems can display variable genetic architectures leading to nutrient foraging or improving abiotic stress tolerance. Breeding for new soybean varieties with efficient root systems has tremendous potential in enhancing resource use efficiency and plant adaptation for challenging climates. In this study, root related traits were analyzed in a panel of 260 spring soybean with genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genotyping was done with specific locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq), and five GWAS models (GLM, MLM, CMLM, FaST-LMM, and EMMAX) were used for analysis. A total of 179,960 highly consistent SNP markers distributed over the entire genome with an inter-marker distance of 2.36 kb was used for GWAS analysis. Overall, 27 significant SNPs with a phenotypic contribution ranging from 20 to 72% and distributed on chromosomes 2, 6, 8, 9, 13, 16 and 18 were identified and two of them were found to be associated with multiple root-related traits. Based on the linkage disequilibrium (LD) distance of 9.5 kb for the different chromosomes, 11 root and shoot regulating genes were detected based on LD region of a maximum 55-bp and phenotypic contribution greater than 22%. Expression analysis revealed an association between expression levels of those genes and the degree of root branching number. The current study provides new insights into the genetic architecture of soybean roots, and the underlying SNPs/genes could be critical for future breeding of high-efficient root system in soybean.