Physiological and anatomical basis of differential tolerance to soil flooding of Lotus corniculatus L. and Lotus glaber Mill

• Published in: Plant and soil Vol. 276; no. 1-2; pp. 301 - 311
• Main Authors: Striker, G.G, Insausti, P, Grimoldi, A.A, Ploschuk, E.L, Vasellati, V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.10.2005; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aboveground biomass; Adaptation to environment and cultivation conditions; Agricultural and forest climatology and meteorology. Irrigation. Drainage; Agricultural and forest meteorology; Agricultural soils; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Alfalfa; Biological and medical sciences; Biomass; Climatic adaptation. Acclimatization; Economic plant physiology; Environmental stress; flooded conditions; Flooded soils; Floods; Forest ecosystems; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gas exchange; General agronomy. Plant production; Generalities and techniques; Genetics and breeding of economic plants; Grassland soils; Grasslands; leaf water potential; Leaves; Legumes; Lotus; Lotus corniculatus; Lotus glaber; Oxygen; Photosynthesis; physiological response; Physiology; plant anatomy; plant response; Plant roots; plant stress; plant-water relations; Plants; roots; soil water; soil-plant interactions; Soil-plant relationships. Soil fertility; Soil-plant relationships. Soil fertility. Fertilization. Amendments; Stomatal conductance; Transpiration; Varietal selection. Specialized plant breeding, plant breeding aims; Water depth; Water relations; water stress; South America; Argentina; America; Physiological condition; Grassland; Functional response; flooding pampa grasslands; Environmental factor; forage legumes; Aerenchyma; Structure function relationship; Flood; leaf gas exchange; Water regime; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; Physiology; Adaptation; Grassland soil; water relations; Root; Interspecific comparison; Lotus corniculatus; Tolerance; Plant leaf; Anatomy; Ecophysiology; Leguminosae; flooding tolerance; Vegetative apparatus; Flooded soil; Spermatophyta; Gas exchange; Fodder crop; Soil plant relation

Lotus corniculatus L. and Lotus glaber Mill, are warm-season legume species adapted to many kinds of environmental stress, including flooding conditions, whereas other popular forage legumes, like alfalfa or white clover, cannot thrive. This study evaluates the relationship between root aerenchyma,...