水淹胁迫下10个树种某些生理指标的变化及其耐水淹能力的比较

以游离脯氨酸和丙二醛(MDA)含量及相对电导率为指标,比较了水淹条件下10个树种的耐水淹能力。结果表明,水淹胁迫下,不同树种的相对电导率及丙二醛含量均呈上升趋势,而游离脯氨酸含量的变化则有显著差异。根据生理指标的变化可以看出,黄连木(Pistacia chinensis Bunge)和石楠(Photinia serrulata Lindl.)的耐水淹能力较弱,耐水淹时间仅为5至10 d;蓝果树(Nyssa sinensis Oliv.)、薄壳山核桃〔Carya illinoensis(Wangenh.)Koch〕、榉树(Zelkova schneideriana Hand.-Mazz.)和一球悬铃木(Platanus occidentalis L.)具有一定的耐水淹能力,耐水淹时间约为25 d;乌桕〔Sapium sebiferum(L.) Roxb.〕和白蜡(Fraxinus chinensis Roxb.)的耐水淹能力较强,耐水淹时间超过45 d;墨西哥落羽杉(Taxodium macronatum Ten.)和花叶杞柳(Salixintegra‘Hakuro Nishiki’)的耐水淹能力最强,受水淹的60 d内无受害现象。     

长期淹水环境下河竹鞭根系统形态、生物量和养分的适应性调节

为揭示长期淹水环境下基于形态、生物量和养分的河竹鞭根系统的生长策略,为河竹在水湿地和江河湖库消落带植被恢复中的应用提供参考,调查测定了人工喷灌供水和淹水处理3、6、12个月的河竹一年生竹鞭及其根系的形态和生理生化指标,分析了河竹鞭和鞭根形态特征和生物量分配及鞭根系统的养分吸收与平衡.结果表明: 长期淹水对河竹鞭节长、鞭径和土中根根径并无明显影响.淹水3个月整体上对鞭的形态特征影响小,水中翘鞭较少,但一定程度上抑制了根的生长.随着淹水时间的延长,水中鞭、根大量生长,同时促进了土中鞭、根的生长,但土中、水中鞭生物量和土中根生物量占总生物量的比例变化并不明显,而水中根生物量/总生物量和水中根生物量/土中根生物量显著升高,体现出河竹可以通过鞭根系统的生长调节和生物量合理分配来逐步适应淹水环境.长期淹水整体上降低了河竹土中根的根系活力,抑制了土中根对养分的吸收,但对土中根养分化学计量比的影响较小,而使水中根的根系活力显著增强,养分化学计量比产生明显的适应性调节,N/P升高,N/K和P/K降低.水中根不仅起到氧气吸收功能,还具有较强的养分吸收功能.这是河竹有效适应淹水环境的生长策略之一.     

长期淹水对河竹鞭根养分化学计量特征的影响

以长期淹水环境下能生长更新的河竹为材料,调查测定了人工喷灌供水(CK)、淹水6个月(TR)的河竹一年生竹鞭的根生物量和主要养分元素含量,分析长期淹水对河竹鞭根养分化学计量特征的影响,为河竹在水湿地和消落带植被恢复中的应用提供理论依据。结果显示:(1)与CK相比,TR处理下的河竹土中根的N、P、Mg和Ca含量显著降低,Fe含量显著升高,且N、K和Ca含量显著低于TR处理下水中根的含量,而Fe含量显著高于水中根。(2)TR处理的河竹土中根的C/N、C/P、C/K和P/K较CK显著升高,且C/K、N/K和P/K显著高于TR处理的水中根。(3)TR处理的河竹水中根的C-N、C-P、N-P均呈极显著正相关关系,土中根的C-P、C-K、P-K均呈极显著正相关关系;CK河竹土中根的C-P、C-K呈极显著正相关关系,且N-P显著相关;从相关系数看,TR处理下土中根的C-N、N-P和N-K相关性减弱,C-P、C-K和P-K相关性增强,而C-N、C-P、N-P和N-K相关性较水中根减弱,C-K和P-K相关性较水中根增强。(4)TR处理下鞭根生物量和C、N、P、K、Mg、Ca积累量较CK分别显著降低19.46%、42.04%、36.55%、41.39%、60.06%和38.46%,而Fe积累量显著升高,为CK的5.5倍;TR处理下土中根养分积累量显著高于水中根。研究表明,长期淹水虽阻碍了河竹鞭根的养分平衡吸收,但能够提高养分利用效率,并且土中根和水中根具有克隆分工特征,水中根主要起到氧气吸收应对缺氧环境胁迫的功能,是河竹适应长期淹水环境的重要生态对策。     

Tasmanian lentic wetland lawns are maintained by grazing rather than inundation

Vertebrate grazers have been shown to be a critical element in maintaining lawns, although lawns can also form in places without such herbivores. In Tasmania lawns are widespread in lentic wetlands. We used environmental observations and exclosure experiments at two altitudinally contrasting lentic wetland lawns, and waterlogging experiments, to test the hypotheses that their structure is maintained (i) periodic inundation; and (ii) grazing. Waterlogging experiments and field observations demonstrated that the two main invading shrubs were indifferent to immersion for several months and that the distribution of the lawns was independent of inundation period, results inconsistent with the first hypothesis. The exclosure experiments showed that both woody and non‐woody plants became taller in the lawns when marsupial grazers and rabbits were excluded. It therefore seems that the lawn structure is maintained by grazing and that alternative structural states result from exclusion of grazing pressure in less than 2 years.     

Rapid changes in cell wall pectic polysaccharides are closely associated with early stages of aerenchyma formation, a spatially localized form of programmed cell death in roots of maize (Zea mays L.) promoted by ethylene

Aerenchyma formation in roots of maize (Zea mays L.) involves programmed death of cortical cells that is promoted by exogenous ethylene (1 µL L⁻¹) or by endogenous ethylene produced in response to external oxygen shortage (3%, v/v). In this study, evidence that degeneration of the cell wall accompanies apoptotic-like changes previously observed in the cytoplasm and nucleus (Gunawardena et al. Planta 212, 205–214, 2001), has been sought by examining de-esterified pectins (revealed by monoclonal antibody JIM 5), and esterified pectins (revealed by monoclonal antibody JIM 7). In controls, de-esterified wall pectins were found at the vertices of triangular junctions between cortical cells (untreated roots). Esterified pectins in control roots were present in the three walls bounding triangular cell-to-cell junctions. After treatment with 3% oxygen or 1 µL L⁻¹ ethylene, this pattern was lost but walls surrounding aerenchyma gas spaces became strongly stained. The results showed that cell wall changes commenced within 0·5 d and evidently were initiated by ethylene in parallel with cytoplasmic and nucleoplasmic events associated with classic intracellular processes of programmed cell death.     

Aerenchyma formation and recovery from hypoxia of the flooded root system of nodulated soybean

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Flooding results in hypoxia of the root system to which N2 fixation of nodulated roots can be especially sensitive. Morphological adaptions, such as aerenchyma formation, can facilitate the diffusion of oxygen to the hypoxic tissues. Using soybean, the aim of the study was to characterize the morphological response of the nodulated root system to flooding and obtain evidence for the recovery of N metabolism. METHODS: Sections from submerged tissues were observed by light microscopy, while sap bleeding from the xylem was analysed for nitrogenous components. KEY RESULTS: Flooding resulted in the rapid formation of adventitious roots and aerenchyma between the stem (immediately above the water line), roots and nodules. In the submerged stem, taproot, lateral roots and adventitious roots, lysigenous aerenchyma arose initially in the cortex and was gradually substituted by secondary aerenchyma arising from cells derived from the pericycle. Nodules developed aerenchyma from cells originating in the phellogen but nodules situated at depths greater than 7-8 cm showed little or no aerenchyma formation. As a result of aerenchyma formation, porosity of the taproot increased substantially between the 4th and 7th days of flooding, coinciding with the recovery of certain nitrogenous products of N metabolism of roots and nodules transported in the xylem. Thus, on the first day of flooding there was a sharp decline in xylem ureides and glutamine (products of N2 fixation), together with a sharp rise in alanine (product of anaerobic metabolism). Between days 7 and 10, recovery of ureides and glutamine to near initial levels was recorded while recovery of alanine was partial. CONCLUSIONS: N metabolism of the nodulated soybean root system can recover at least partially during a prolonged period of flooding, a process associated with aerenchyma formation.     

Nutritional and chlorophyll fluorescence responses of lucerne (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Medicago sativa</Emphasis>) to waterlogging and subsequent recovery

Periodic flooding of perennial crops such as lucerne (Medicago sativa,L) is a major cause of lowered productivity and leads in extreme cases to plant death. In this study, effects of waterlogging and subsequent recovery on plant nutrient composition and PSII photochemistry were studied to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms of recovery as they relate to leaf photochemistry (chlorophyll fluorescence) and nutrient dynamics. Three lucerne cultivars and one breeding line were flooded for 20 d, drained and left to recover for another 16 d under glasshouse conditions. Leaf and root nutrient composition (P, K, Ca, Mg, B, Cu and Zn) of waterlogged lucerne was significantly lower than in freely drained controls, leaf N concentrations were also significantly lower in waterlogged lucerne. At the same time, there were significantly (5-fold) higher concentrations of Fe in waterlogged roots and Na in leaves (2-fold) of stressed plants. PS II photochemistry, which was impaired due to waterlogging, recovered almost fully after 16 d of free drainage in all genotypes. Alongside fluorescence recovery, concentrations of several nutrients also increased in recovered plants. Growth parameters, however, remained suppressed after draining. The latter was due to both the smaller capacity of CO₂ assimilation in previously waterlogged plants (caused in part by nutrient deficiency and associated inhibition of PSII) and the plants need to re-direct available nutrient and assimilate pools to repair the damage to the photosynthetic apparatus and roots. It is concluded, that for any lucerne-breeding program it is important to determine not only the degree of tolerance to waterlogging but also the potential for recovery of different genotypes, as well as look for outstanding individuals within each population.     

油菜素内酯对毛豆幼苗生长及其抗渍性的影响

试验采用不同浓度油菜素内酯对毛豆幼苗进行叶面喷施处理,测定其在渍水胁迫下对毛豆营养生长和生理特性的影响。结果表明:采用一定浓度的油菜素内酯处理可以促进苗生长、提高根系活力、叶绿素含量、脯氨酸含量和抑制丙二醛增生、降低细胞膜透性,增强了毛豆幼苗对渍水环境的抵抗能力。从叶面喷施后对毛豆的营养指标和生理指标进行综合判断可知:在试验的范围内,以1mL/L油菜素内酯的处理效果为最佳。     

Stem hypertrophic lenticels and secondary aerenchyma enable oxygen transport to roots of soybean in flooded soil

Background and Aims

Aerenchyma provides a low-resistance O₂ transport pathway that enhances plant survival during soil flooding. When in flooded soil, soybean produces aerenchyma and hypertrophic stem lenticels. The aims of this study were to investigate O₂ dynamics in stem aerenchyma and evaluate O₂ supply via stem lenticels to the roots of soybean during soil flooding.

Methods

Oxygen dynamics in aerenchymatous stems were investigated using Clark-type O₂ microelectrodes, and O₂ transport to roots was evaluated using stable-isotope ¹⁸O₂ as a tracer, for plants with shoots in air and roots in flooded sand or soil. Short-term experiments also assessed venting of CO₂ via the stem lenticels.

Key Results

The radial distribution of the O₂ partial pressure (pO₂) was stable at 17 kPa in the stem aerenchyma 15 mm below the water level, but rapidly declined to 8 kPa at 200–300 µm inside the stele. Complete submergence of the hypertrophic lenticels at the stem base, with the remainder of the shoot still in air, resulted in gradual declines in pO₂ in stem aerenchyma from 17·5 to 7·6 kPa at 13 mm below the water level, and from 14·7 to 6·1 kPa at 51 mm below the water level. Subsequently, re-exposure of the lenticels to air caused pO₂ to increase again to 14–17 kPa at both positions within 10 min. After introducing ¹⁸O₂ gas via the stem lenticels, significant ¹⁸O₂ enrichment in water extracted from roots after 3 h was confirmed, suggesting that transported O₂ sustained root respiration. In contrast, slight ¹⁸O₂ enrichment was detected 3 h after treatment of stems that lacked aerenchyma and lenticels. Moreover, aerenchyma accelerated venting of CO₂ from submerged tissues to the atmosphere.

Conclusions

Hypertrophic lenticels on the stem of soybean, just above the water surface, are entry points for O₂, and these connect to aerenchyma and enable O₂ transport into roots in flooded soil. Stems that develop aerenchyma thus serve as a ‘snorkel’ that enables O₂ movement from air to the submerged roots.