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Growth responses of Salix gracilistyla cuttings to a range of substrate moisture and oxygen availability

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The objective of this study is to determine the effects of substrate moisture and oxygen availability on growth traits of Salix gracilistyla Miquel, which colonizes gravel bars along rivers, the shoot growth schedule, biomass production, and resource allocation were examined under greenhouse conditions. We used four treatments representing a range of substrate moisture and oxygen availability: drought (D), flooding with standing water (FS), flooding with running water (FR), and control without drought or flooding (C). Cuttings in D stopped flushing and had low biomass production, reduced total leaf mass, and small leaves. Under anaerobic conditions, cuttings in FS stopped flushing and had low biomass production, small root biomass, low biomass allocation to roots, shallow roots, high biomass allocation to hypertrophied lenticels, and a few small, thick leaves. Under aerobic conditions, cuttings in FR showed continuous branch elongation and flushing, large biomass production, and large leaf biomass, similar to cuttings in C, in addition to low allocation to hypertrophied lenticels and many large leaves. The growth of cuttings was not inhibited by flooding of the roots throughout the experiment unless the conditions were anaerobic. Thus, cuttings respond to water stress under low moisture conditions by reducing the transpiration area and respond to flooding under low oxygen conditions by high allocation to hypertrophied lenticels and reduced transpiration area. Plasticity in the shoot growth schedule, biomass production, and resource allocation according to moisture conditions and the ability to develop hypertrophied lenticels upon flooding allow S. gracilistyla to colonize sites in which both desiccation and flooding occur.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Nakasu M, Minami H, Nakamura Y, Maeda A, and Kawasaki T, and other colleagues for their assistance with the survey. The editor and two anonymous reviewers are also thanked for useful comments and suggestions.

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    Arisa Nakai, Yutaka Yurugi & Hiromitsu Kisanuki

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Nakai, A., Yurugi, Y. & Kisanuki, H. Growth responses of Salix gracilistyla cuttings to a range of substrate moisture and oxygen availability. Ecol Res 24, 1057–1065 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11284-009-0583-8

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