Response to Waterlogging and Differing Sensitivity to Divalent Iron and Manganese in Clones of Dactylis glomerata L. derived from Well-drained and Poorly-drained Soils |
| |
Authors: | ETHERINGTON J R; THOMAS O M |
| |
Institution: | Department of Plant Science, University College P.O. Box 78, Cardiff CF1 IXL, UK |
| |
Abstract: | Clonally propagated plants of Dactylis glomerata derived froma well-drained, heavily grazed cliff habitat (clone L) and froman undergrazed poorly-drained soil (clone A) were tested forwaterlogging tolerance in soil-culture. Water-logging did notaffect the two clones differentially, a result, which contrastedstrongly with that of a previous experiment in which simulatedgrazing (clipping to 20 cm) unexpectedly caused clone A to beless tolerant of waterlogging than clone L. Maximum leaf andleaf sheath length was reduced more by water-logging in cloneL than in clone A (P < 0.05). In solution-culture when providedwith factorial combinations of 0.5, 5 and 50 mg dm2 ofFe2+ and Mn2+ the shoot dry weight yield of the dry-soil clonewas reduced more than that of the wet-soil clone by 50 mg Fedm3 irrespective of Mn2+ concentration (P < 0.01)but the reduction of growth was less at higher Mn2+ concentrations.Fifty milligrams of Mn2+ dm3 reduced the growth of thedry soil clone but increased the growth of the wet soil clonewith Fe2+ at 5 mg dm2 (P < 0.05). Iron at 0.5 mg dm2was suboptimal for shoot growth of both clones at any levelof Mn2+ and caused more severe leaf chlorosis in the wet soilclone. Leaf tissue of clone L contained more iron than thatof clone A after waterlogging (P < 0.01) but in solutionculture, though increasing iron from 0.5 to 50 mg dm3almost doubled leaf iron content (P < 0.001), the interactionClones x Mn x Fe just failed to reach significance at P <0.05. The manganese content of leaf tissue from the two clonesvaried differently in response to solution manganese (Clonesx Mn P < 0.01), clone A showing a slightly greater increaseof manganese content at high solution concentration. Iron at50 mg dm3 suppressed Mn uptake (Mn x Fe, P < 0.001)in both clones. The two clones thus show marked environmentaladaptation to the chemistry of wet and dry soils. Dactylis glomerata, Cocksfoot grass, Orchard grass, waterlogging, iron, manganese, toxicity, deficiency, ecotypes |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 Oxford 等数据库收录! |
|