Artículo
No escape? Costs and benefits of leaf de-submergence in the pasture grass Chloris gayana under different flooding regimes
Fecha de publicación:
08/2017
Editorial:
Csiro Publishing
Revista:
Functional Plant Biology
ISSN:
1445-4408
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
Elongation-induced leaf emergence is one way for plants to deal with complete submergence by 'escaping' from water. This growth strategy is hypothesised to be more beneficial under single long-term submergence than under repeated short-term submergence events (i.e. fluctuating environment), as costs of repeated plant 'adjustment' would exceed the initial benefits of shoot elongation. To test this idea, 2-week-old plants of Chloris gayana Kunth. cv. Fine Cut (a submergence-tolerant cultivar first selected by a screening experiment) were grown for 4 weeks under (i) control conditions, (ii) two 1-week submergence cycles, or (iii) one 2-week submergence cycle. Additionally, a set of plants were placed below nettings to assess the cost of remaining forcedly submerged. Impeding leaves emergence through nettings did not compromise survival when submergence was 1-week long, but determined the death of all plants when extended to 2 weeks. Growth as affected by flooding regime revealed that under one 2-week submergence event, plants accumulated a 2.9-fold higher dry mass than when they experienced the same submergence duration in separate events along 1week. The 'escape' strategy in the grass C. gayana, by which leaf contact with air is re-established, is essential for its survival, and it is more beneficial for plant growth under long-term submergence than under repeated short-term submergence cycles.
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Striker, Gustavo Gabriel; Casas, Cecilia; Kuang, Xiaolin; Grimoldi, Agustin Alberto; No escape? Costs and benefits of leaf de-submergence in the pasture grass Chloris gayana under different flooding regimes; Csiro Publishing; Functional Plant Biology; 44; 9; 8-2017; 899-906
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