Flooding of tropical forests in central Amazonia: what do the effects on the photosynthetic apparatus of trees tell us about species suitability for reforestation in extreme environments created by hydroelectric dams?

• Autorzy: Moreira dos Santos Junior U. , de Carvalho Goncalves J.F. , Strasser R.J. , Fearside P.M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Brazil plans to construct many new hydroelectric dams in the Amazon region. The new conditions of flooding promoted by reservoirs can alter photosynthetic processes, and the study of physiological responses of trees can be used for selected suitable species to reforest these altered areas. The present study analyzed changes in pigment content and photosynthetic performance in floodtolerant and flood-intolerant species that are common in the floodplains along the Uatuma˜ River and on islands in the reservoir of the Balbina Hydroelectric Dam. Their photosynthetic responses were tested using chloroplast pigment content and chlorophyll a fluorescence. Flooding caused a significant reduction in pigment content in all of the three flood-intolerant species and in one of the seven flood-tolerant species studied. Flood-tolerant species were unaffected and neither a change in their chlorophyll contents nor a decrease in the efficiency of energy use in the photosynthetic process was observed. From chlorophyll a fluorescence transients (OJIP transients) was calculated the performance index (PIABS), a parameter derived from the OJIP transient by means of the JIP-test (translation of original fluorescence measurements into biophysical expressions quantifying the stepwise flow of energy through photosystem II). This parameter was a very sensitive indicator of the physiological status of trees under field and was shown to be a particularly sensitive indicator of stress tolerance in flood-intolerant species during inundation, whereas flood-tolerant species had only minor reductions in their photosynthetic performance. We suggest that tree species selection for reforestation around reservoirs can benefit from species-specific measurements of photosynthetic response using the JIP-tes.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Physiologiae Plantarum
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: 37
• Numer: 08
• Opis fizyczny: fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Moreira dos Santos Junior U.

• Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, National Institute for Research in the Amazon (MCTI-INPA), Av. Andre Araujo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, CEP: 69067-375, Brazil

autor

de Carvalho Goncalves J.F.

• Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, National Institute for Research in the Amazon (MCTI-INPA), Av. Andre Araujo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, CEP: 69067-375, Brazil

autor

Strasser R.J.

• Bioenergetics and Microbiology Laboratory, University of Geneva, 10 JUSSY Lullier, 1254, Geneva, Switzerland

autor

Fearside P.M.

• Coordination for Research in Environmental Dynamics, National Institute for Research in the Amazon (MCTI-INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Bibliografia

• Brazil MME (2011) Plano Decenal de Expansão de Energia 2020. MME (Ministério de Minas e Energia), Empresa de Pesquisa Energética. Brasília, DF, Brazil. 2 vols (In Portuguese) Bussotti F, Strasser RJ, Schaub M (2007) Photosynthetic behavior of woody species under high ozone exposure probed with the JIPtest: a review. Environ Pollut 147:430–437
• Bussotti F, Desotgiu R, Cascio C, Pollastrini M, Gravano E, Gerosa G, Marzuoli R, Nali C, Lorenzini G, Salvatori E, Manes F, Schaub M, Strasser RJ (2011) Ozone stress in woody plants assessed with chlorophyll a fluorescence. A critical reassessment of existing data. Environ Exp Bot 73:19–30
• Duarte B, Santos D, Marques JC, Cac¸ador I (2014) Biophysical probing of Spartina maritima photo-system II changes during prolonged tidal submersion periods. Plant Physiol Biochem 77:122–132
• Ferreira CS, Piedade MTF, Junk WJ, Parolin P (2007) Floodplain and upland populations of Amazonian Himatanthus sucuuba: effects of flooding on germination, seedling growth and mortality. Environ Exp Bot 60:477–483
• Ferreira CS, Piedade MTF, Franco AC, Gonc¸alves JFC, Junk WJ (2009) Adaptive strategies to tolerate prolonged flooding in seedlings of floodplain and upland populations of Himatanthus sucuuba, a central Amazon tree. Aquatic Bot 90:246–252
• Ferreira CS, Piedade MTF, Wittmann AO, Franco AC (2010) Plant reproduction in the central Amazonian floodplains: challenges and adaptations. AoB Plants. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plq009
• Force L, Critchley C, van Rensen J (2003) New fluorescence parameters for monitoring photosynthesis in plants. Photosyn Res 78:17–33
• Gardiner ES, Krauss KW (2001) Photosynthetic light response of flooded cherrybark oak (Quercus pagoda) seedlings grown in two light regimes. Tree Physiol 21:1103–1111
• Gonçalves JFC, Santos Junior UM, Nina Junior AR, Chevreuil LR (2007) Energetic flux and performance index in copaiba (Copaifera multijuga Hayne) and mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) seedlings grown under two irradiance environments. Braz J Plant Physiol 19:171–184
• Haldimann P, Strasser RJ (1999) Effects of anaerobiosis as probed by the polyphasic chlorophyll a fluorescence rise kinetic in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Photosyn Res 62:7–83
• Hendry GAF, Price AH (1993) Stress indicators: chlorophylls and carotenoids. In: Hendry GA, Grime JP (eds) Methods in comparative plant ecology. Chapman & Hall, London, pp 148–152
• Hermans C, Smeyers M, Rodriguez RM, Eyletters M, Strasser RJ, Delhaye J-P (2003) Quality assessment of urban trees: a comparative study of physiological characterisation, airborne imaging and on site fluorescence monitoring by the OJIP-test. J Plant Physiol 160:81–90
• Hidding B, Sarneel JM, Bakker ES (2014) Flooding tolerance and horizontal expansion of wetland plants: facilitation by floating mats? Aquat Bot 113:83–89
• Joliot P, Joliot A (2002) Cyclic electron transfer in plant leaf. Proc Nat Acad Sci 99:10209–10214
• Junk WJ (1989) Flood tolerance and tree distribution in central Amazonia. In: Tropical forest botanical dynamics speciation and diversity. Holm-Nielson LB, Nielsen IC, Balsev H (eds). Academic Press, London, pp 47–64
• Junk WJ, Piedade MTF, Parolin P, Wittmann F, Schöngart J (2010) Central Amazonian floodplain forests: ecophysiology, biodiversity and sustainable management. Ecological Studies, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg
• Kalaji HM, Oukarroum A, Alexandrov V, Kouzmanova M, Brestic M, Zivcak M, Samborska IA, Cetner MD, Allakhverdiev SI, Goltsev V (2014) Identification of nutrient deficiency in maize and tomato plants by in vivo chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements. Plant Physiol Biochem 81:16–25
• Kissmann C, da Veiga EB, Eichemberg MT, Habermann G (2014) Morphological effects of flooding on Styrax pohlii and the dynamics of physiological responses during flooding and postflooding conditions. Aquat Bot 119:7–14
• Kozlowski TT (1997) Responses of woody plants to flooding and salinity. Tree Physiol Monog 1:1–29
• Kozlowski TT (2002) Physiological-ecological impacts of flooding on riparian forest ecosystems. Wetlands 22:550–561
• Lavinsky AO, Sant’Ana CD, Mielke MS, De Almeida A-AF, Gomes FP, Franc¸a S, Silva DC (2007) Effects of light availability and soil flooding on growth and photosynthetic characteristics of Genipa americana L. seedlings. New Forest 34:41–50
• Lazár D (2006) The polyphasic chlorophyll a fluorescence rise measured under high intensity of exciting light. Func Plant Biol 33:9–30
• Lichtenthaler HK, Wellburn AR (1983) Determination of total carotenoids and chlorophyll a and b of leaf extracts in different solvents. Biochem Soc Trans 11:591–592
• Maurenza D, Marenco RA, Parolin P, Piedade MT (2012) Physiological responses to flooding and light in two tree species native to the Amazonian floodplains. Aquatic Bot 96:7–13
• Mielke MS, Schaffer B (2010) Leaf gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence and pigment indexes of Eugenia uniflora L. in response to changes in light intensity and soil flooding. Tree Physiol 30:45–55
• Mielke MS, Schaffer B (2011) Effects of soil flooding and changes in light intensity on photosynthesis of Eugenia uniflora L. seedlings. Acta Physiol Plant 33:1661–1668
• Noodén LD, Guiamét JJ, John I (1997) Senescence mechanisms. Physiol Plant 101:746–753
• Oliveira VC, Joly CA (2010) Flooding tolerance of Calophyllum brasiliense Camb. (Clusiaceae): morphological, physiological and growth responses. Trees 24:185–193
• Oukarroum A, Madidi SE, Schansker G, Strasser RJ (2007) Probing the responses of barley cultivars (Hordeum vulgare L.) by chlorophyll a fluorescence OLKJIP under drought stress and rewatering. Environ Exp Bot 60:438–446
• Parolin P (2001a) Senna reticulata, a pioneer tree from Amazonian várzea floodplains. Bot Rev 67(2):239–254
• Parolin P (2001b) Morphological and physiological adjustments to waterlogging and drought in seedlings of Amazonian floodplain trees. Oecologia 128:326–335
• Parolin P, Waldhoff D, Zerm M (2010) Photochemical capacity after submersion in darkness: how Amazonian floodplain trees cope with extreme flooding. Aquat Bot 93:83–88
• Pezeshki SR (1994) Plant response to flooding. In: Wilkinson RE (ed) Plant/environment interactions. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp 289–321
• Rengifo E, Tezara W, Herrera A (2005) Water relations, chlorophyll a fluorescence, and contents of saccharides in tree species of a tropical forest in response to flood. Photosynthetica 43:203–210
• Santos Junior UM, Gonc¸alves JFC, Fearnside PM (2013) Measuring the impact of flooding on Amazonian trees: photosynthetic response models for ten species flooded by hydroelecttics dams. Trees 27:193–210
• Sironval C, Strasser RJ, Brouers M (1981) Equivalence entre la theorie des flux et la theorie des relations entreproportions de pigments pour la description de la repartition de l’energie lumineuse absorbée par les membranes photoactives. Bull Acad R Belg 67:248–259
• Smirnoff N (1993) The role of active oxygen in the response of plants to water deficit and desiccation. New Phytol 125:27–58
• Srivastava A (1997) Regulation of antenna structure and electron transport in Photosystem II of Pisum sativum under elevated temperature probed by the fast polyphasic chlorophyll a fluorescence transient: OKJIP. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta Bioenerg 1320:95–106
• Stirbet A, Govindjee (2011) On the relation between the Kautsky effect (chlorophyll a fluorescence induction) and photosystem II: basics and applications of the OJIP fluorescence transient. J Photochem Photobiol B Biol 104(1–2):236–257
• Strasser BJ (1997) Donor side capacity of Photosystem II probed by chlorophyll a fluorescence transients. Photosyn Res 52:147–155
• Strasser RJ, Govindjee (1992) On the O-J-I-P fluorescence transient in leaves and D1 mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In: Murata N (ed) Research in Photosynthesis. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp 29–32
• Strasser BJ, Strasser RJ (1995) Measuring fast fluorescence transients to address environmental questions: the JIP-test. In: Mathis P (ed) Photosynthesis: from Light to Biosphere. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 977–980
• Strasser RJ, Srivastava A, Tsimilli-Michael M (1999) Screening the vitality and photosynthetic activity of plants by fluorescence transient. In: Behl RK, Punia MS, Lather BPS (eds) Crop Improvement for Food Security. SSARM, Hisar, pp 79–126
• Strasser RJ, Srivastava A, Tsimilli-Michael M (2001) The fluorescence transient as a tool to characterize and screen photosynthetic samples. In: Yunus M, Pathre U, Mohanty P (eds) Probing photosynthesis: Mechanisms, regulation and adaptation. Taylor and Francis, London, pp 445–483
• Strasser RJ, Srivastava A, Tsimilli-Michael M (2004) Analysis of the chlorophyll a fluorescene transient. In: Dordrecht The (ed) Photosynthesis and Respiration-Papageorgiou GC, Govindjee. Springer, Netherlands, pp 321–362
• Strauss AJ, Krüger GHJ, Strasser RJ, Heerden PDRV (2006) Ranking of dark chilling tolerance in soybean genotypes probed by the chlorophyll a fluorescence transient O-J-I-P. Environ Exp Bot 56:147–157
• Tóth SZ, Schansker G, Strasser RJ (2005) In intact leaves, the maximum fluorescence level (FM) is independent of the redox state of the plastoquinone pool: a DCMU-inhibition study. Biochim Biophys Acta (BBA) Bioenerg 1708:275–282
• Tsimilli-Michael M, Pêcheux M, Strasser RJ (1998) Vitality and stress adaptation of the symbionts of coral reef and temperate foraminifers probed in hospite by the fluorescence kinetics O-J-IP. Arch Sci Genéve 51:205–240
• Tsimilli-Michael M, Eggenberg P, Biro B, Köves-Pechy K, Vörös I, Strasser RJ (2000) Synergistic and antagonistic effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Azospirillum and Rhizobium nitrogen-fixers on the photosynthetic activity of alfalfa, probed by the polyphasic chlorophyll a fluorescence transient O-J-I-P. Appl Soil Ecol 15:169–182
• Waldhoff D, Junk WJ, Furch B (1998) Responses of three Central Amazonian tree species to drought and flooding under controlled conditions. Internat J Ecol Environ Sci 24:237–252
• Waldhoff D, Furch B, Junk WJ (2002) Fluorescence parameters, chlorophyll concentration, and anatomical features as indicators for flood adaptation of an abundant tree species in central Amazonia: symmeria paniculata. Environ Exper Bot 48:225–235
• Yamamoto F, Kozlowski TT (1987) Effects of flooding, tilting of stems, and ethrel application on growth, stem anatomy and ethylene production of Pinus densiflora Seedlings. J Exper Bot 38:293–310

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.1007/s11738-015-1915-7