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Both flooding and low temperature reduced height and stem diameter growth; leaf initiation; growth of leaves, stems, and roots; and lowered root-shoot ratios of 112-dayoldBetula platyphylla var.japonica seedlings. Flooding also induced leaf scorching and abscission. Growth was reduced much more by flooding than by low temperature. Interactive effects of flooding and temperature were shown on height growth, leaf initiation and expansion, and dry weight increment of leaves, stems and roots. The amount of growth reduction by flooding and low temperature was greater when based on analysis of dry weight increment of leaves, stems, and roots, than on their relative growth rates. The greater reduction of growth by flooding than by low temperature was associated with fewer and smaller leaves, more leaf injury, more stomatal closure, and greater decay of roots in flooded plants. Flooding and low temperature appeared to reduce growth by somewhat different physiological mechanisms.
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Research supported by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA and by Yamagata University, Tsuruoka, Japan. McIntyre-Stennis Project 2599.
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Tsukahara, H., Kozlowski, T.T. Effect of flooding and temperature regime on growth and stomatal resistance ofBetula platyphylla var.japonica seedlings. Plant Soil 92, 103–112 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02372271
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