{"title":"SOIL WATERLOGGING STRESS COMPENSATED BY ROOT SYSTEM ADAPTATION IN A POT EXPERIMENT WITH SWEET CORN ZEA MAYS VAR. SACCHARATE","authors":"A. Kalvāns, G. Kalvāne","doi":"10.5593/sgem2022/3.1/s12.21","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Soil waterlogging due to excess moisture resulting in hypoxic soil conditions can have detrimental effect on development of many dryland plants growing in locations with temporary water logged soils. Oxygen stress in hypoxic soils can lead to decrease root water uptake and transpiration compared to well aerated soil conditions. In turn reduction of transpiration have a positive effect on soil water budget facilitating the preservation of waterlogged state of the soil. We investigate this phenomenon in a greenhouse pot experiment using sweet corn Zea mays var. saccharate as a model species. After establishment seedlings were subject to a differentiated watering regime ranging for now watering to heavy overwatering resulting in soil waterlogging and flooding. It was observed that the elongation rate of maize seedlings decreased once soil was waterlogged. However soon after soil flooding the elongation reassumed coinciding with appearance of new adventitious roots taping the water layer above flooded soils surface. It is concluded the ability of root system adaptation to change in soil water regime determines the plant species success in sites with periodically waterlogged soils. The feedback between soil aeration status and water uptake can result in swinging between waterlogged and desiccated soil conditions, providing competitive advantages to different sets of species during dry-land and wet-land phases.","PeriodicalId":331146,"journal":{"name":"SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference� EXPO Proceedings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference� EXPO Proceedings","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2022/3.1/s12.21","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Soil waterlogging due to excess moisture resulting in hypoxic soil conditions can have detrimental effect on development of many dryland plants growing in locations with temporary water logged soils. Oxygen stress in hypoxic soils can lead to decrease root water uptake and transpiration compared to well aerated soil conditions. In turn reduction of transpiration have a positive effect on soil water budget facilitating the preservation of waterlogged state of the soil. We investigate this phenomenon in a greenhouse pot experiment using sweet corn Zea mays var. saccharate as a model species. After establishment seedlings were subject to a differentiated watering regime ranging for now watering to heavy overwatering resulting in soil waterlogging and flooding. It was observed that the elongation rate of maize seedlings decreased once soil was waterlogged. However soon after soil flooding the elongation reassumed coinciding with appearance of new adventitious roots taping the water layer above flooded soils surface. It is concluded the ability of root system adaptation to change in soil water regime determines the plant species success in sites with periodically waterlogged soils. The feedback between soil aeration status and water uptake can result in swinging between waterlogged and desiccated soil conditions, providing competitive advantages to different sets of species during dry-land and wet-land phases.
土壤内涝是由于过度的水分导致的低氧土壤条件,对许多生长在临时淹水土壤中的旱地植物的发育有不利影响。与通风良好的土壤条件相比,缺氧土壤中的氧胁迫可导致根系吸水和蒸腾减少。蒸腾的减少对土壤水分收支有积极的影响,有利于保持土壤的涝渍状态。以甜玉米(Zea mays var. saccharate)为模式种,在温室盆栽试验中研究了这一现象。建立后,幼苗受到不同的浇水制度,从现在浇水到严重过度浇水,导致土壤内涝和洪水。土壤淹水后,玉米幼苗伸长率下降。然而,在土壤淹水后不久,随着新的不定根在淹水土壤表面以上的水层上出现,延长又恢复了。在周期性涝渍土壤中,根系对土壤水分变化的适应能力决定了植物物种的成功与否。土壤通气状态和水分吸收之间的反馈可以导致土壤在涝渍和干燥状态之间的摇摆,在旱地和湿地阶段为不同的物种提供竞争优势。