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- Title
Winter hardening in first-year black spruce (Picea mariana) seedlings.
- Authors
Colombo, S. J.; Glerum, C.; Webb, D. P.
- Abstract
Winter hardening of first-year black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P] seedlings was studied by assessing a number of morphological and physiological changes under three hardening regimes: 1) early removal (ER), in which seedlings were exposed to natural daylengths and low ambient temperatures outside, 2) extended greenhouse culture (EG), in which seedlings were exposed to natural daylengths and warm temperatures, and 3) short day (SD), in which seedlings were exposed to short daylengths and low ambient temperatures outside. Measurements included needle primordia initiation, embryonic shoot volume, terminal bud mitotic index, embryonic shoot average cell volume, and shoot tip frost hardiness. EG seedlings formed buds containing 4 times as many needle primordia as ER stock. Embryonic shoot volume increased with number of needle primordia initiated, until late in the hardening period, when significant reductions in meristem volumes of SD and EG stock were observed. Frost hardiness increased sooner in seedlings which set bud in response to short days, hut SD treatment did not result in significantly greater frost hardiness at the end of the trial. Frost hardiness was correlated with mitotic index of the embryonic shoot. Cell size in the embryonic shoot declined in seedlings of all treatments during hardening. however, EG seedlings had significantly lower cell volumes by the end of the trial in comparison to ER and SD seedlings.
- Subjects
BLACK spruce; FROST resistance of plants; SEEDLINGS; PLANT shoots; EMBRYOLOGY; SPRUCE
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 1989, Vol 76, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3054.1989.tb05444.x