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JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 199, Issue -, Pages 18-28Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.05.003
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Gossypium hirsutum; Drought; Heat tolerance; Leaf expansion; Photosynthesisa
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Temperature and drought are major abiotic limitations to crop productivity worldwide. While abiotic stress physiology research has focused primarily on fully expanded leaves, no studies have investigated photosynthetic tolerance to concurrent drought and high temperature during leaf ontogeny. To address this, Gossypium hirsutum plants were exposed to five irrigation treatments, and two different leaf stages were sampled on three dates during an abnormally dry summer. Early in the growing season, ontogenic PSII heat tolerance differences were observed. Photosystem II was more thermotolerant in young leaves than mature leaves. Later in the growing season, no decline in young leaf net photosynthesis (P-N) was observed as leaf temperature increased from 31 to 37 degrees C, as average midday leaf water potential (psi(MD)) declined from -1.25 to -2.03 MPa. In contrast, mature leaf PN declined 66% under the same conditions. Stomatal conductance (g(s)) accounted for 84-98% of variability in leaf temperature, and gs was strongly associated with klimp in mature leaves but not in young leaves. We conclude that young leaves are more photosynthetically tolerant to heat and drought than mature leaves. Elucidating the mechanisms causing these ontogenic differences will likely help mitigate the negative impacts of abiotic stress in the future. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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