1. Integrated drought responses of black poplar: how important is phenotypic plasticity?
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Pierre Conchon, Boris Fumanal, Marie Garavillon-Tournayre, Jean-Stéphane Venisse, Gilles Petel, Florian Gautier, Catherine Bastien, Pierrick Benoit, David Lopez, Aurélie Gousset-Dupont, Romain Souchal, Philippe Label, Laboratoire de Physique et Physiologie Intégratives de l’Arbre en environnement Fluctuant - Clermont Auvergne (PIAF), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Unité de recherche Amélioration, Génétique et Physiologie Forestières (UAGPF), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Laboratoire de Physique et Physiologie Intégratives de l’Arbre en environnement Fluctuant (PIAF), Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de recherche Amélioration, Génétique et Physiologie Forestières (AGPF), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020]), and ANR-16-IDEX-0001,CAP 20-25,CAP 20-25(2016)
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Perennial plant ,Physiology ,x euramericana clones ,Plant Science ,xylem ,01 natural sciences ,water-use efficiency ,Biomass ,Shade tolerance ,condition environnementale ,2. Zero hunger ,changement climatique ,Vegetal Biology ,populus-nigra ,climate-change ,physiological traits ,shade tolerance ,luisa-avanzo ,environmental-conditions ,stomatal aperture ,xylem resistance ,Plant Sciences ,Dehydration ,xylème ,food and beverages ,General Medicine ,Droughts ,Phenotype ,Populus ,Stomatal conductance ,Genotype ,Context (language use) ,Biology ,Black poplar ,03 medical and health sciences ,Stress, Physiological ,Botany ,Genetics ,black poplar ,[SDV.BV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology ,Water-use efficiency ,global change ,Phenotypic plasticity ,fungi ,Xylem ,Water ,Plant Transpiration ,Cell Biology ,15. Life on land ,biology.organism_classification ,tolérance à l'ombre ,Plant Leaves ,030104 developmental biology ,Agronomy ,ouverture stomatique ,13. Climate action ,environmental condition ,Biologie végétale ,populus nigra ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Climate change is expected to increase drought frequency and intensity which will threaten plant growth and survival. In such fluctuating environments, perennial plants respond with hydraulic and biomass adjustments, resulting in either tolerant or avoidant strategies. Plants' response to stress relies on their phenotypic plasticity. The goal of this study was to explore physiology of young Populus nigra in the context of a time-limited and progressive water deficit in regard to their growth and stress response strategies. Fourteen French 1-year-old black poplar genotypes, geographically contrasted, were subjected to withholding water during 8 days until severe water stress. Water fluxes (i.e. leaf water potentials and stomatal conductance) were analyzed together with growth (i.e. radial and longitudinal branch growth, leaf senescence and leaf production). Phenotypic plasticity was calculated for each trait and response strategies to drought were deciphered for each genotype. Black poplar genotypes permanently were dealing with a continuum of adjusted water fluxes and growth between two extreme strategies, tolerance and avoidance. Branch growth, leaf number and leaf hydraulic potential traits had contrasted plasticities, allowing genotype characterization. The most tolerant genotype to water deficit, which maintained growth, had the lowest global phenotypic plasticity. Conversely, the most sensitive and avoidant genotype ceased growth until the season's end, had the highest plasticity level. All the remaining black poplar genotypes were close to avoidance with average levels of traits plasticity. These results underpinned the role of plasticity in black poplar response to drought and calls for its wider use into research on plants' responses to stress.
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- 2017