scholarly journals The effect of water potential on accumulation of some essential elements in sugarbeet leaves, Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris

2003 ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Ivana Maksimovic ◽  
Rudolf Kastori ◽  
Novica Petrovic ◽  
Lazar Kovacev ◽  
Pavle Sklenar
Keyword(s):  
Water Potential ◽  
Beta Vulgaris ◽  
Nutrient Solution ◽  
Mineral Nutrition ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Water Deficiency ◽  
Plant Mineral Nutrition ◽  
Harmful Effects ◽  
Reduced Water ◽  
Cu And Zn

An investigation has been conducted on the effect of reduced water potential in nutrient solution on the accumulation of some essential macro- and micro nutrients in the aboveground pails of young sugarbeet plants. Plants of 8 different sugarbeet genotypes were exposed for 21 days to a nutrient solution whose water potential of 0.1 MPa was regulated by PEG. Contents of N, P, K Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn declined in all genotypes under water deficiency but the intensity of reduction varied among the genotypes. The results indicated that some harmful effects of water deficiency could be attributed to disturbances in plant mineral nutrition, especially the lack of N, P, and Mg, as well as to impaired ratios between the contents of particular elements, especially K/Ca.

scholarly journals Drought Adaptation in Fuchsia magellanica and Its Effect on Freezing Tolerance

2008 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majken Pagter ◽  
Karen K. Petersen ◽  
Fulai Liu ◽  
Christian R. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Water Potential ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Freezing Tolerance ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Xylem Sap ◽  
Water Deficiency ◽  
Frost Injury ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Curvilinear Relation ◽  
Reduced Water

Fuchsia (Fuchsia L.) is a popular woody ornamental, but it is very susceptible to frost injury during winter. As drought stress may be used to enhance freezing tolerance in woody plants, the effects of different types of water deficit on growth, selected physiological traits, and freezing tolerance were examined in Fuchsia magellanica Lam. ‘Riccartonii’. Drought responses were investigated after 6 weeks of pretreatment, where individual plants grown in a greenhouse under conditions of unrestricted water supply were compared with plants subjected to cyclic or continuous water deficit. After an additional 4 weeks of treatment at short day (10 h) and low temperature (8 °C day/4 °C night), freezing tolerance was examined. Both continuous and cyclic water deficit plants reduced water loss by reducing aboveground biomass and by efficient stomatal regulation. Continuous water deficit plants tended to adjust osmotically, while cyclic water deficit induced significantly higher xylem sap abscisic acid [(ABA)xylem] and leaf proline concentrations and a lower leaf water potential (ψl) than continuous water deficit, indicating that F. magellanica responds differently to continuous water deficit and to fast drying associated with stress phases of cyclic water deficit. The root water potential (ψr) and (ABA)xylem were negatively linearly correlated, implying that increasing water deficiency stimulated formation of ABA in the roots. An inverse, curvilinear relation between (ABA)xylem and stomatal conductance (g s) indicated that root-originated ABA might control g s during mild water deficits. Neither cold-acclimating conditions alone nor combined with water deficit increased stem freezing tolerance, indicating that F. magellanica lacks cold-acclimation ability under the inductive conditions used in this study.

Irrigation of Geraniums with an Automatic Controlled Water Table System

HortScience ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 522d-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.W. Buxton ◽  
D.L. Ingram ◽  
Wenwei Jia
Keyword(s):  
Water Potential ◽  
Leaf Area ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Nutrient Solution ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Trickle Irrigation ◽  
Run Off ◽  
Optimum Water

Geraniums in 15-cm pots were irrigated automatically for 8 weeks with a Controlled Water Table (CWT) irrigation system. Plants were irrigated with a nutrient solution supplied by a capillary mat with one end of the mat suspended in a trough below the bottom of the pot. The nutrient solution remained at a constant level in the trough. Nutrient solution removed from the trough was immediately replaced from a larger reservoir. The vertical distance from the surface of the nutrient solution and the bottom of the pot determined the water/air ratio and water potential in the growing media. Treatments consisted of placing pots at 0, 2, 4, and 6 cm above the nutrient solution. Control plants were irrigated as needed with a trickle irrigation system. Geraniums grown at 0,2 and 4 CWT were ≈25% larger than the control plants and those grown at 6 CWT as measured by dry weight and leaf area. Roots of plants grown at 0 CWT were concentrated in the central area of the root ball; whereas roots of plants in other treatments were located more near the bottom of the pot. Advantages of the CWT system include: Plant controlled automatic irrigation; no run off; optimum water/air ratio.

scholarly journals Determination of essential elements (Mn, Fe, Cu and Zn) in herbal teas by TXRF , FAAS and ICP‐OES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Marguí ◽  
Rogerta Dalipi ◽  
Emanuele Sangiorgi ◽  
Maja Bival Štefan ◽  
Katarina Sladonja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Icp Oes ◽  
Cu And Zn

scholarly journals MINERAL NUTRITION OF CRISPHEAD LETTUCE GROWN IN A HYDROPONIC SYSTEM WITH BRACKISH WATER

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
HAMMADY RAMALHO E SOARES ◽  
ÊNIO FARIAS DE FRANÇA E SILVA ◽  
GERÔNIMO FERREIRA DA SILVA ◽  
RAQUELE MENDES DE LIRA ◽  
RAPHAELA REVORÊDO BEZERRA
Keyword(s):  
Nutrient Solution ◽  
Mineral Nutrition ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Water Source ◽  
Water Salinity ◽  
Hydroponic System ◽  
Foliar Phosphorus ◽  
Solution Preparation ◽  
Phosphorus And Potassium ◽  
Local Water

ABSTRACT Water availability in the Brazilian semiarid is restricted and often the only water source available has high salt concentrations. Hydroponics allows using these waters for production of various crops, including vegetables, however, the water salinity can cause nutritional disorders. Thus, two experiments were conducted in a greenhouse at the Department of Agricultural Engineering of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, to evaluate the effects of salinity on the mineral nutrition of crisphead lettuce, cultivar Taina, in a hydroponic system (Nutrient Film Technique), using brackish water in the nutrient solution, which was prepared by adding NaCl to the local water (0.2 dS m-1). A randomized blocks experimental design was used in both experiments. The treatments consisted of water of different salinity levels (0.2, 1.2, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2 and 5.2 dS m-1) with four replications, totaling 24 plots for each experiment. The water added to compensate for the water - depth loss due to evapotranspiration (WCET) was the brackish water of each treatment in Experiment I and the local water without modifications in Experiment II. The increase in the salinity of the water used for the nutrient solution preparation reduced the foliar phosphorus and potassium contents and increased the chloride and sodium contents, regardless of the WCET. Foliar nitrogen, calcium, magnesium and sulfur contents were not affected by increasing the water salinity used for the nutrient solution preparation.

scholarly journals Mineral nutrition of mycorrhized tropical gum tree A. senegal (L.) under water deficiency conditions

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
pp. 1743-1747
Author(s):  
Malick Ndiaye ◽  
Eric Cavalli ◽  
El Hadji Malick Leye ◽  
Tahir Abdoulaye Diop
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Nutrition ◽  
Water Deficiency

scholarly journals Growth and mineral nutrition of Solanum americanum

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Bianco ◽  
L.B. Carvalho ◽  
M.S. Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Nutrient Solution ◽  
Mineral Nutrition ◽  
Dry Matter ◽  
Dry Matter Production ◽  
Perennial Crops ◽  
Greenhouse Trial ◽  
Matter Production ◽  
Solanum Americanum ◽  
Experimental Stage

A greenhouse trial was carried out from November 1995 to April 1996 at FCAV/UNESP, Brazil, aiming to study the dry matter production and the accumulation and distribution of macronutrients in Solanum americanum, an important weed for annual and perennial crops in Brazil. The plants were grown in seven liter pots with sand substrate, irrigated daily with Hoagland & Arnon nutrient solution. The experimental design was completely randomized with four replicates. The treatments corresponded to evaluation times at 14 day intervals, beginning 21 days after emergence (DAE). In each evaluation, the plants of four pots were analyzed for dry matter production and macronutrient content. S. americanum had a small dry matter and macronutrient accumulation at the beginning of the experimental stage, increasing after 77 DAE and reaching the maximum theoretical value at 142, 142, 164, 149, 140, 149 and 152 DAE, for dry matter, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, and S, respectively. K and N were the most accumulated macronutrients for S. americanum plants.

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