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Journal of Agriculture ›› 2025, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (6): 65-70.doi: 10.11923/j.issn.2095-4050.cjas2024-0078

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Comparative Analysis of Agronomic Characters, Photosynthetic Parameters and Quality Characters of Celery in Autumn and Winter in Huai’an Area

SUN Xu1(), CHEN Yuezhen2(), CHEN Chen1,3, WANG Lixiang1,3, WEI Yongju1, SUN Yuehua1, LI Yapeng1, LIU Peizhuo1, WANG Guanglong4, XIONG Aisheng1,3()   

  1. 1 College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University/ State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization/ Key Laboratory of Biology and Germplasm Enhancement of Horticultural Crops in East China, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing 210095
    2 Huai’an Institute of Vegetable Sciences, Huai’an Jiangsu 223021
    3 Suqian Facility Horticulture Research Institute (Nanjing Agricultural University, Suqian Research Institute), Suqian Jiangsu 223800
    4 School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai’an Jiangsu 223003
  • Received:2024-04-23 Revised:2024-09-04 Online:2025-06-20 Published:2025-06-18

Abstract:

In order to screen for Huai'an Medicinal Celery (HY) strains that are more suitable for cultivation in the Huai'an region and have excellent comprehensive quality, ‘HY-1’, ‘HY-2’, ‘HY-3’ and ‘HY-4’ were used as experimental materials to compare agronomic traits, photosynthetic characteristics and nutritional quality using significant difference analysis and correlation analysis. The results showed that ‘HY-3’ was dominant in the four lines except for leaflet width, plant height and spread degree. The most obvious advantages were the number of leaflet (172.67 per plant) and plant weight (256.60 g/per plant). Among the four lines, ‘HY-3’ had the highest net photosynthetic rate and water use efficiency, while ‘HY-4’ had the highest transpiration rate, stomatal conductance and intercellular CO2 concentration. Leaflet chlorophyll content (42.13 SPAD), apigenin (1.55 mg/g in leaflet, 0.88 mg/g in petiole) and luteolin (1.77 mg/g in leaflet, 0.28 mg/g in petiole) of ‘HY-3’ were the highest among the 4 lines, and lignin content was relatively high (12.82 mg/g in leaflet, 10.17 mg/g in petiole). The correlation analysis showed that the leaflet length and leaflet width were positively correlated, and the contents of apigenin and luteolin were positively correlated in the 4 ‘HY’ lines. In summary, the ‘HY-3’ has better agronomic traits, photosynthetic capacity, water utilization rate and nutritional quality, and has higher adaptability to stress and high yield potential.

Key words: celery, agronomic traits, photosynthetic parameters, nutritional quality, germplasm resources, Huai'an region