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Interaction effects of temperature and light on shoot architecture, growth dynamics and gas exchange of young Vitis vinifera cv. Shiraz vines in controlled environment conditions

Subhashini K. Abeysinghe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2132-7144 A * , Dennis H. Greer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2465-6915 A and Suzy Y. Rogiers A
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A National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 588, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.

* Correspondence to: hka1749@yahoo.com

Handling Editor: Oula Ghannoum

Functional Plant Biology 49(1) 54-67 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP21271
Submitted: 5 December 2020  Accepted: 18 October 2021   Published: 19 November 2021

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing

Abstract

To examine the interactive effect of temperature and photon flux density (PFD) on growth dynamics and gas exchange of young Vitis vinifera L. cv. Shiraz vines, a controlled environment study was conducted by exposing vines to two different temperatures combined with either high or low PFD. Shoot growth was accelerated and the phyllochron of Shiraz leaves was hastened in the low temperature (25/12°C) × low PFD condition (350 μmol m−2 s−1). In early emerging leaves, leaf area was responsive to temperature whereas in later emerging leaves it was dependent on light intensity. The high temperature (32/20°C) × high PFD (700 μmol m−2 s−1) treatment delayed internode extension of early emerging internodes. However, low temperature × high PFD increased leaf gas exchange across the different growth stages. The net shoot carbon balance was greater for the low temperature × high PFD treatment. Dry matter accumulation was also greater in early emerging internodes irrespective of treatment. These results on young Shiraz vines indicate that 25°C is favourable to 32°C, and some growth characteristics are accelerated at low PFD while others favour higher PFD.

Keywords: gas exchange, internode extension, leaf appearance, leaf expansion, light intensity, net carbon balance, photosynthesis, phyllochron, temperature.


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