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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Morphophysiological responses of Ormosia arborea (Fabaceae) seedlings under flooding and post-flooding conditions

Fernanda Soares Junglos A , Mário Soares Junglos A , Daiane Mugnol Dresch B , Larissa Fatarelli Bento B , Etenaldo Felipe Santiago C , Rosilda Mara Mussury A and Silvana de Paula Quintão Scalon B D
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A Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, State Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

B Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Grande Dourados, Road Dourados Itahum, Dourados, State Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

C Center for Studies in Natural Resources, Mato Grosso do Sul State University, Dourados, State Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

D Corresponding author. Email: silvanascalon@ufgd.edu.br

Australian Journal of Botany 66(7) 489-499 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT17206
Submitted: 24 October 2017  Accepted: 14 September 2018   Published: 8 October 2018

Abstract

The success of restoration practices in areas subject to seasonal flooding is associated with the selection of plant species tolerant to both flooding and post-flooding conditions. Morphophysiological changes of Ormosia arborea (Vell.) Harms (Fabaceae) seedlings were studied to evaluate the plasticity related to the water regime. O. arborea seedlings were flooded for 0, 15, 30, 45 and 60 days. At the end of each flooding period, the seedlings were removed from the pools to assess seedling survival at 75 days after completion of the flooding regime. The seedlings survived under the flooding and post-flooding regime and expressed lenticel hypertrophy. During longer periods of flooding, the seedlings exhibited a reduction in the quantum efficiency of PSII and gas exchanges (except for the internal concentration of CO2, which increased during this period). During the reestablishment, the metabolism was resumed, however, when plants was submitted to more prolonged flooding (60 days), the photosynthetic rates and carboxylation efficiency were not completely recovered. Stomatal conductance and water use efficiency was not recovered at the level of the control independent of the flooding period. These morphophysiological adjustments indicate phenotypic plasticity and potential for survival in temporarily flooded areas.

Additional keywords: adaptive plasticity, chlorophyll fluorescence-a, gas exchanges hypertrophied lenticels, restoration.


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