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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 538, Issue -, Pages 768-778Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.080
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Anaerobic digestate derived-compost; Organic amendments; Rosmarinus officinalis L.; Biogenic volatile organic compounds; Abiotic stress
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- Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures activity in EC 7th Framework Programme under the Experimentation in Ecosystem Research (ExpeER) [262060]
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The aim of this work was to study the changes during 15 days in the monoterpene emission rates of the Mediterranean shrub rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.), in response to increasing drought stress and fertilisation using two different composts derived from livestock anaerobic digestates (cattle and pig slurry). Drought stress considerably reduced photosynthetic rates, stomatal conductance and isoprenoid emissions and also induced a change in blend composition. In the drought stressed rosemary plants, a positive relationship of non-oxygenated monoterpene emissions and a negative relationship of oxygenated monoterpene with photosynthesis were observed, indicating a different control mechanism over the emissions of the two types of isoprenoids. The emission of non-oxygenated monoterpenes seemed to depend more on photosynthesis and de novo synthesis, whereas emission of oxygenate monoterpenes was more dependent on volatilisation from storage, mainly driven by cumulative temperatures. In the short term, the addition of composted organic materials to the soil did not induce a significant effect on isoprenoid emission rates in the rosemary plants. However, the effect of the interaction between fertilisation and seasonality on isoprenoid emission rates was influenced by the amendment origin. Also, we emphasized changes in potential isoprenoid emission factors throughout the experiment, probably indicating changes in the leaf developmental stage. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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