Metal resistance in red maple (Acer rubrum) callus cultures from mine and smelter sites in Canada

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 693-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
S A Watmough ◽  
T C Hutchinson
1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1073-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun A Watmough ◽  
Thomas C Hutchinson

The relationship between metal contamination in surface soil and metal resistance of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) callus was examined by sampling mature trees along a transect extending away from a metal smelter at Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Callus tissue, established from shoots, was tested for resistance to zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), and arsenic (As) (a metalloid). Strong positive linear correlations were found between Zn resistance of callus and total Zn in soil beneath sampled trees (r = 0.83, p < 0.001) at concentrations between 73.4 and 840 mg Zn·kg-1 and between Zn resistance and H2O-extractable Zn (r = 0.83; p < 0.001) at values between 0.3 and 11.8 mg Zn·kg-1. Despite high total concentrations of As in soil, which were between 6.2 and 499 mg·kg-1, there was no significant correlation between As resistance of red maple callus and soil As levels. However, H2O-extractable As concentrations were very low (< 0.11 mg·kg-1). Concentrations of Cd and Ni in surface soil beneath trees were not high, and there were no significant correlations between Cd resistance of callus and soil Cd or between Ni resistance in vitro and soil Ni. The origin of these resistance traits, and their significance to the survival of trees in metal-polluted soils, is discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-297
Author(s):  
Tara Lee Bal ◽  
Katherine Elizabeth Schneider ◽  
Dana L. Richter

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 757 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Dickinson ◽  
J. Jolliff ◽  
A. S. Bova

Hyperbolic temperature exposures (in which the rate of temperature rise increases with time) and an analytical solution to a rate-process model were used to characterise the impairment of respiration in samples containing both phloem (live bark) and vascular-cambium tissue during exposures to temperatures such as those experienced by the vascular cambium in tree stems heated by forest fires. Tissue impairment was characterised for red maple (Acer rubrum), chestnut oak (Quercus prinus), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) samples. The estimated temperature dependence of the model’s rate parameter (described by the Arrhenius equation) was a function of the temperature regime to which tissues were exposed. Temperatures rising hyperbolically from near ambient (30°C) to 65°C produced rate parameters for the deciduous species that were similar at 60°C to those from the literature, estimated by using fixed temperature exposures. In contrast, samples from all species showed low rates of impairment, conifer samples more so than deciduous, after exposure to regimes in which temperatures rose hyperbolically between 50 and 60°C. A hypersensitive response could explain an early lag in tissue-impairment rates that apparently caused the differences among heating regimes. A simulation based on stem vascular-cambium temperature regimes measured during fires shows how temperature-dependent impairment rates can be used to predict tissue necrosis in fires. To our knowledge, hyperbolic temperature exposures have not been used to characterise plant tissue thermal tolerance and, given certain caveats, could provide more realistic data more efficiently than fixed-temperature exposures.


1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1783-1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Rier ◽  
Alex L. Shigo

Fluorescence microscopy was used to show that during 34 days after the wounding of red maple, Acer rubrum, callose accumulated in the phloem, new xylary tissues formed, and plugs formed in vessels to 10 cm above and below the wounds.


1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-152
Author(s):  
Richard J. Medve

Soils collected from eight different plant communities that contained red maples (Acer rubrum L.) had little effect on root fan structures of red maple seedlings. Seedlings from eight seed sources, grown in the same soil types, showed a significant amount of variation for third order root characteristics. Root fan structures, especially those characteristics relating to beaded rootlets, were significantly affected by soil sterilization. Root fan structures were more copious and developed more rapidly on indigenous seedlings than on seedlings grown under greenhouse conditions.


2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-211
Author(s):  
Donna C. Fare ◽  
Patricia Knight ◽  
Charles H. Gilliam ◽  
James Altland

Abstract Four experiments were conducted to investigate herbicides currently labeled for field and/or container production for use in pot-in-pot production. Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora L.), red maple (Acer rubrum Spach. ‘Autumn Flame’ and ‘Franksred’), ornamental pear (Pyrus calleryana Decne. ‘Bradford’ and ‘Cleveland Select’), river birch (Betula nigra L.), green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh. and F. pennsylvanica Marsh.‘Marshall's Seedless’), and zelkova (Zelkova serrata Spach ‘Village Green’) were evaluated for herbicide tolerance. Barricade 65WG, Surflan 4AS, and Pendulum 60WDG, used alone or in combination with Princep and Gallery 75 DF, had no adverse effect on tree shoot growth or trunk caliper growth when applied as a directed band application. Weed control varied depending upon local site conditions, herbicide rate and weed species.


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