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An amalgamation between hormone physiology and plant ecology: A review on flooding resistance and ethylene

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Both distribution of terrestrial plants and species composition in flood plain communities are strongly influenced by flooding (waterlogging, partial submergence, or submergence). The interaction between a plant's flooding resistance and the seasonal timing, duration, depth, or frequency of flooding often determines plant distribution in flood plains. Flooding may be accompanied by marked physical changes in light, carbon availability, diffusion rate of gases, and density of the environment. Various physiological processes may be affected by these flooding-induced physical changes, including aerobic respiration, photosynthesis, and processes in which light acts as a source of information (e.g., phytochrome photoequilibrium). Certain plant species acclimatize and adapt to these physical changes to relieve the constraints imposed by the flooded environment. Underwater photosynthesis, enhanced shoot elongation, adventitious roots, and aerenchyma formation are typical adaptive responses which are believed to improve the oxygen status of submerged plants. Ethylene and other plant hormones play a central role in the initiation and regulation of most of these adaptive responses, which permit “escape” from anaerobiosis. Mechanisms of direct tolerance of anaerobic conditions, such as a vigorous fermentative respiratory pathway, are of particular importance when the plant is very deeply submerged, or during the night and when the water is sufficiently turbid to exclude light.

Studies on the cosmopolitan genus Rumex, distributed in a flooding gradient on river flood plains, have integrated plant hormone physiology with plant ecology. Rumex species showed a high degree of interspecific variation in ethylene production rates, endogenous ethylene concentrations, ethylene sensitivity, and ethylene-mediated growth responses. The field distribution of Rumex species in flooding gradients is explained in terms of a balance between endogenous ethylene concentrations and sensitivity towards this growth regulator (“ethylene economy”). Much data has been gathered using a recently developed laser-driven photoacoustic detection technique capable of detecting six parts of ethylene in 1012 parts air flowing continuously over the plant.

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    L. A. C. J. Voesenek, A. J. M. van der Sman & C. W. P. M. Blom

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Voesenek, L.A.C.J., van der Sman, A.J.M., Harren, F.J.M. et al. An amalgamation between hormone physiology and plant ecology: A review on flooding resistance and ethylene. J Plant Growth Regul 11, 171–188 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00194367

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