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- Title
Effects of timing of soil frost thawing on Scots pine.
- Authors
Tapani TR Repo; Tuomo TK Kalliokoski; Timo TD Domisch; Tarja TL Lehto; Hannu HM Mannerkoski; Sirkka SS Sutinen; Leena LF Finér
- Abstract
Effects of the timing of soil thawing in the spring on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) were studied under controlled laboratory conditions. Sixteen 6-year-old saplings were lifted from the field, replanted in containers and placed in four treatments in controlled environment (CE) chambers with four replicate saplings per chamber. The saplings were held in the CE chambers during one simulated winter and one simulated growing season. The soil was frozen to –2 °C during a second simulated winter in the CE chambers, and the soil thawing treatments began at the end of the second simulated winter. Soil thawing began at various times before (no delay in thawing) and after (delay in thawing) chamber air conditions were changed from simulated winter to simulated summer. Delayed soil thawing subjected saplings to stress, with the severity of stress depending on the length of the delay in thawing. If there was no delay or only a short delay in soil thawing, stress was minor and reversible. A 2-week delay in soil thawing led to death of the saplings. Stress was apparent as decreases in the variable to maximal chlorophyll fluorescence ratio (Fv/Fm), chlorophyll a/b ratio and needle water potential. In needles of stressed saplings, apoplastic electrical resistance first decreased and then increased and there were anomalies in the electrical impedance spectra of the stems. Stress from the soil thawing treatments affected both root and shoot growth.
- Subjects
THAWING; SCOTS pine; CHLOROPHYLL spectra; PLANT roots; PLANT growth
- Publication
Tree Physiology, 2005, Vol 25, Issue 8, p1053
- ISSN
0829-318X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/treephys/25.8.1053