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Author(s):Schnyder, Hans; Nelson, Curtis J.
Author Affiliation:Dept. Agronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Title:Diurnal Growth of Tall Fescue Leaf Blades. I. Spatial Distribution of Growth, Deposition of Water, and Assimilate Import in the Elongation Zone
Source:Plant Physiology. Vol. 86, No. 4, April 1988, p. 1070-1076.
Publishing Information:Lancaster, PA: American Society of Plant Physiologists
Keywords:TIC Keywords: Growth; Vertical shoot growth; Horizontal shoot growth; Festuca arundinacea; Diurnal cycle
Abstract/Contents:"Tall fescue leaf blades elongate at near constant rates during most of the light and dark periods of the diurnal cycle, with the dark rate being higher by 60 to 65%. Our objective was to determine relationships among diurnal rates of leaf elongation, deposition of water and deposition of dry matter (DM) into the elongation zone. Two separate experiments were conducted, both with a 15-hour photoperiod and constant 21 C at the growth zone. Increased rates of leaf elongation in darkness were due to proportionally increased rates of elongation of 4-millimeter segments of the elongation zone. Length of the total elongation zone was 30 millimeters in both light and darkness. The spatial distribution of water contents in the elongation zone varied little during the diurnal cycle. Thus, dark stimulation of leaf elongation rate (+65%) and of water deposition (+77%) into elongation zones were similar. Water content per unit leaf length increased by 50% between the basal and distal limits of the elongation zone, indicating that tissue also grew in the lateral and vertical dimensions. Longitudinal growth of tissue, however, allowed 5 to 7 times more water deposition into the elongation zone than growth in cross-sectional area. This relationship was similar in light and darkness. In both light and darkness net rates of DM deposition (microgram per millimeter leaf length per hour) increased from the zone of cell division towards the region of most active elongation, 10 to 15 millimeters from the ligule, then decreased towards the distal end of the elongation zone. Net DM deposition rates (microgram per hour) integrated over the 30-millimeter elongation zone were similar during light and darkness. Thus, DM in the elongation zone was diluted during darkness as a result of increased water deposition. Net DM deposition rates at and above the distal end of the elongation zone were clearly positive during the light, but were close to zero or negative in darkness. Thus, DM deposition into the elongation zone and the adjacent recently expanded tissue was differentially affected in the dirunal cycle, DM deposition occurred in both tissues in light, but was restricted to the elongation zone in darkness."
Language:English
References:17
See Also:See also part II of study, "Diurnal growth of tall fescue leaf bladdes: II. Dry matter partitioning and carbohydrate metabolism in the elongation zone and adjacent expanded tissue," p. 1077-1083, R=12226. R=12226
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Schnyder, H., and C. J. Nelson. 1988. Diurnal Growth of Tall Fescue Leaf Blades. I. Spatial Distribution of Growth, Deposition of Water, and Assimilate Import in the Elongation Zone. Plant Physiol. 86(4):p. 1070-1076.
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