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The ability of wild potatoes (Solanum spp.) to adapt to potentially stressful environmental temperatures was investigated by measuring the cold and heat tolerances of plants grown near sea-level in Lima following collection of tubers from plants growing naturally at altitudes ranging from 450 to 4,200 m. Relative cold tolerance was measured in leaves stored at 0°C by the decrease in the induced rise of chlorophyll fluorescence. Similarly, changes in chlorophyll fluorescence were used to determine the relative heat tolerance of leaves heated at 41°C for 10 min. With increasing altitude, the cold tolerance of different species tended to increase and conversely, heat tolerance decreased. However, these two genotypic adaptations were not closely correlated and appear to vary independently of each other in response to climate.
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Abbreviations
- FR :
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maximal rate of chlorophyll fluorescence rise
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Smillie, R.M., Hetherington, S.E., Ochoa, C. et al. Tolerances of wild potato species from different altitudes to cold and heat. Planta 159, 112–118 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00392980
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