Communications Biology (Aug 2021)

Impact and mechanism of sulphur-deficiency on modern wheat farming nitrogen-related sustainability and gliadin content

  • Zitong Yu,
  • Maoyun She,
  • Ting Zheng,
  • Dean Diepeveen,
  • Shahidul Islam,
  • Yun Zhao,
  • Yingquan Zhang,
  • Guixiang Tang,
  • Yujuan Zhang,
  • Jingjuan Zhang,
  • Christopher L. Blanchard,
  • Wujun Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02458-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Zitong Yu et al. utilize large-scale field and glasshouse experiments and transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses to explore the impacts of sulphur fertilization on sulphur-deficient wheat crop and its gluten composition. They show that sulphur fertilization increases nitrogen-use efficiency through regulating glutamine synthetase and reduces the amount of gliadin components through mediating the aspartate-family amino acid biosynthesis network.