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Stress reactions of Scots pine trees to injuring by ground fire

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Controlled burning has been carried out to stimulate moderate ground fire in the Scots pine (Pinus sуlvestris L.) stand (age class I) in the Krasnoyarsk forest steppe at the beginning of the growing season. The structure of annual rings and trophic supply, as well as the cambial zone antioxidant system condition and the content of photosynthetic pigments in the needles of dominant and suppressed trees in the experimental and control plots, were studied 3 h, 5 days, and 2.5 months after the fire. The fire narrowed the annual ring width, since the number and size of early and late tracheids decreased. The primary reaction to pyrogenic heat shock (sharp reduction of chlorophyll content in needles and manifestation of oxidative stress in the stem cambial zone) was an elevated level of hydrogen peroxide and activity of most antioxidant enzymes and a reduction in the nonstructural carbohydrates pool. Restoration of the cambium function after the fire was promoted by an increased activity of amylase, invertase, and peroxidase.

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    N. E. Sudachkova, L. I. Romanova, N. V. Astrakhantseva, M. V. Novoselova & I. V. Kosov

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Original Russian Text © N.E. Sudachkova, L.I. Romanova, N.V. Astrakhantseva, M.V. Novoselova, I.V. Kosov, 2016, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, No. 5, pp. 739–749.

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Sudachkova, N.E., Romanova, L.I., Astrakhantseva, N.V. et al. Stress reactions of Scots pine trees to injuring by ground fire. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 9, 608–616 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425516050152

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