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TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 53-60Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0766-8
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Water stress symptoms; Vigorous and dwarfing cherry rootstocks; Scanning electron microscope; Xylem anatomy; Stem porosity; Vessel
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- TAMOP [4.2.1./B-09/01/KMR/2010-0005, 4.2.2./B-10/1-2010-0023]
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Reduction of crop yield from high water stress is a serious agricultural problem worldwide, which is expected to intensify under future global change scenarios. Efforts are underway worldwide to improve crops resistance to drought. One possible way is the careful choice of rootstock-scion combination. It is well known that water stress symptoms of grafted cherry trees to a large extent depend on the rootstock variety. Scions grafted on dwarf rootstocks show more serious stress symptoms, so it is reasonable to hypothesize that these symptoms and the tissue structure of the rootstock stem are connected. This paper examines this connection for 1-year-old seedlings of eight cherry rootstocks with different degree of vigor. Tissue structure was observed via scanning electron microscope images. Investigations were focused on number, size, and distribution of vessels, because they are principally responsible for water transport. Stem porosity (i.e., the total vessel area relative to the stem area, in cross-sectional view) of the dwarfing rootstocks was found to be significantly smaller than that of the others, supporting the notion that stem anatomical characteristics might contribute to water stress sensitivity.
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