Is the reduced growth of the halophyte Suaeda maritima under hypoxia due to toxicity of iron or manganese?

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Alhdad, Gazala M, Zörb, Christian, Al-Azzawi, Mohammed J and Flowers, Timothy J (2015) Is the reduced growth of the halophyte Suaeda maritima under hypoxia due to toxicity of iron or manganese? Environmental and Experimental Botany, 116. pp. 61-70. ISSN 0098-8472

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Abstract

For most plants, submergence in water is a rare occurrence, but for plants that grow on salt marshes flooding with seawater may be a twice-daily event. This is the case for plants of the halophyte Suaeda maritima, growing at low elevations on salt marshes. These plants are, however, smaller than those growing at higher elevations, where flooding is less frequent and the soil is better drained. We investigated whether the reduced growth brought about by flooding with saline water was a consequence of toxicity of manganese or iron. Seedlings of S. maritima were grown both in a sold medium (a mixture of salt-marsh mud and sand) that was either submerged twice a day or continuously flooded with half-strength seawater and in a hydroponic solution where the oxygen concentration was adjusted by bubbling with nitrogen or air. Hypoxia, reduced the growth of plants in both solid and liquid media and resuted in increases in manganese and iron in the shoots and roots. Experiments in culture solution showed that elevated levels of manganese were unlikely to be toxic, but that iron did reach toxic concentrations in flooded plants.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Halophyte; Metal toxicity; Salinity; Waterlogging; growth rate; hypoxia; iron; manganese; phytotoxicity; salinity tolerance; saltmarsh;
Schools and Departments: School of Life Sciences > Evolution, Behaviour and Environment
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry > QD0241 Organic chemistry > QD0415 Biochemistry
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH0301 Biology > QH0359 Evolution
Q Science > QK Botany > QK0710 Plant physiology
Q Science > QK Botany > QK0900 Plant ecology
Depositing User: Samuel Appleton
Date Deposited: 15 May 2015 10:14
Last Modified: 06 Mar 2017 12:46
URI: http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54018

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