Grassland plants show no relationship between leaf drought tolerance and soil moisture affinity, but rapidly adjust to changes in soil moisture

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/19:00511546

Result on the web

<a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.13312" target="_blank" >https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1365-2435.13312</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13312" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2435.13312</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Grassland plants show no relationship between leaf drought tolerance and soil moisture affinity, but rapidly adjust to changes in soil moisture

Original language description

Assessing drought tolerance and the ability of plants to adjust to changes in available water resources is crucial for understanding current and future distributions of plant species. While turgor loss point ((tlp)) has been recognized as a direct determinant of drought tolerance in woody plants, information on it for grassland species is largely missing. We first validated a rapid method to estimate (tlp) for grassland species, using osmometry measurements ((tlp-osm)) of osmotic potential at full hydration ((o-osm)), originally proposed for woody species. We confirmed that (o-osm) was tightly positively related to (tlp) measured by the classic pressure-volume curve ((tlp-pv)). Cell wall elasticity was not important in the maintenance of turgor and neither specific leaf area nor leaf dry matter content influenced (tlp.) We then studied the relationship between (tlp-osm) measured under controlled conditions and species&apos; soil moisture affinity (Ellenberg indicator values) in 40 diverse grassland species from the full range of soil moisture conditions found in temperate grasslands. On a subset of 12 species, we studied the adjustment in (tlp-osm) to drought stress and recovery from drought. We hypothesized that dry grassland species are better adapted to drier conditions by having comparatively higher leaf drought tolerance (more negative (tlp)) and a better ability to adjust to acute drought stress. We found that (tlp-osm) was unrelated to species&apos; soil moisture affinity. However, all species developed higher leaf drought tolerance by decreasing (tlp-osm) after seven weeks of drought stress. After only one week of recovery, all species reduced the leaf drought tolerance back to the (tlp-osm) level comparable with non-stressed plants. Our results considerably extend the relationship between (o-osm) and (tlp), originally defined for woody species, and thus propose a yet unexploited direct method for assessing leaf drought tolerance via turgor loss point in herbaceous species. However, the lack of relationship between (tlp) and soil moisture affinity suggests that, unlike in woody plants, leaf-level drought tolerance in grassland plants does not fully translate into whole-plant drought resistance, suggesting an importance of other drought resistance strategies. A plain language summary is available for this article.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Functional Ecology

ISSN

0269-8463

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

774-785

UT code for WoS article

000471332200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062979078