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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Soil water-holding capacity mediates hydraulic and hormonal signals of near-isohydric and near-anisohydric Vitis cultivars in potted grapevines

Sara Tramontini A B D E , Johanna Döring C D , Marco Vitali B , Alessandra Ferrandino B , Manfred Stoll C and Claudio Lovisolo B
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A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Plant Health Unit (PLH), via Carlo Magno 1/a, 43126 Parma, Italy.

B University of Turin, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, DISAFA, via Leonardo da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy.

C Hochschule Geisenheim University (HGU), Department of General and Organic Viticulture, Von-Lade Str. 1, D-65366, Germany.

D Joint first authors.

E Corresponding author. Email: sara.tramontini@efsa.europa.eu

Functional Plant Biology 41(11) 1119-1128 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP13263
Submitted: 4 September 2013  Accepted: 28 January 2014   Published: 27 March 2014

Abstract

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) expresses different responses to water stress, depending not only on genotype, but also on the influence of vineyard growing conditions or seasonality. Our aim was to analyse the effects on drought response of two grapevine cultivars growing on two soils, one water draining (WD) containing sand 80% volume and the other water retaining (WR), with no sand. Under these two different water-holding capacities Syrah, displaying a near-anisohydric response to water stress, and Cabernet Sauvignon (on the contrary, near-isohydric) were submitted to water stress in a pot trial. Xylem embolism contributed to plant adaptation to soil water deprivation: in both cultivars during late phases of water stress, however, in Syrah, already at moderate early stress levels. By contrast, Syrah showed a less effective stomatal control of drought than Cabernet Sauvignon. The abscisic acid (ABA) influenced tightly the stomatal conductance of Cabernet Sauvignon on both pot soils. In the near-anisohydric variety Syrah an ABA-related stomatal closure was induced in WR soil to maintain high levels of water potential, showing that a soil-related hormonal root-to-shoot signal causing stomatal closure superimposes on the putatively variety-induced anisohydric response to water stress.

Additional keywords: abscisic acid (ABA), cavitation, embolism, hydraulic conductance, water potential.


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