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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Resprouting strategies of three native shrub Cerrado species from a morphoanatomical and chemical perspective

Gabriela Santos da Silva https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8756-9317 A , Alexandre Ferraro B , Claudio Lima de Aguiar C and Beatriz Appezzato-da-Glória A *
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A Plant Anatomy Laboratory, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Pádua Dias Avenue, 11, 13418-900 Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.

B Department of Functional Ecology, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Dukelská 135, 379 01 Třeboň, Czech Republic.

C Hugot Sugar Technology Laboratory, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Pádua Dias Avenue, 11, 13418-900 Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.

* Correspondence to: bagloria@usp.br

Handling Editor: Garry Cook

Australian Journal of Botany 69(8) 527-542 https://doi.org/10.1071/BT21039
Submitted: 18 March 2021  Accepted: 12 July 2021   Published: 13 October 2021

© 2021 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

This study was carried out in a Cerrado (the largest savanna in the Neotropics) area where pine plantations, introduced in the 1970s, were removed by clear cutting of the trees and burning of the remaining material. After the removal and burning, some native shrub species resprouted. Since resprouting is dependent on buds that can be in the belowground bud-bearing (BBB) organs containing reserves, we selected three resprouting Myrtaceae species for analysis of morphology and anatomy of their BBB organs, to determine which compounds could be accumulated and to investigate the bud protection features. Standard histological techniques were used to analyse the BBB organs. The belowground bud bank at a depth of 10 cm was determined. Nonstructural carbohydrates, total phenolics, and flavonoids were quantified on the roots. The large size of BBB organs suggest that these species were present before plantation establishment and survived plantation management treatments. All species produced a large number of axillary buds. All BBB organs exhibited significant lignification and stored starch and phenolic compounds in the parenchyma cells. The protective features and the storage of reserves associated with the bud-bank allowed the survival and subsequent resprouting of these species, contributing to the regeneration of this disturbed area.

Keywords: belowground bud bank, Eugenia L., resprouting strategies, storage compounds, woody rhizome, seeders, resprouters, Cerrado, vegetative regeneration strategies, Myrtaceae.


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