AOBPreview published online on April 27, 2006
Annals of Botany, doi:10.1093/aob/mcl076
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1 School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia
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• Aims Soil waterlogging impedes gas exchange with the atmosphere, resulting in low POO2 and often high PCOCO2. Conditions conducive to development of high PCOCO2 (5-70 kPa) during soil waterlogging and flooding are discussed. The scant information on responses of roots to high PCOCO2 in terms of growth and metabolism is reviewed. • Scope PCOCO2 at 15-70 kPa has been reported for flooded paddy-field soils; however, even 15 kPa PCOCO2 may not always be reached, e.g. when soil pH is above 7. Increases of PCOCO2 in soils following waterlogging will develop much more slowly than decreases in POO2; in soil from rice paddies in pots without plants, maxima in PCOCO2 were reached after 2-3 weeks. There are no reliable data on PCOCO2 in roots when in waterlogged or flooded soils. In rhizomes and internodes, PCOCO2 sometimes reached 10 kPa, inferring even higher partial pressures in the roots, as a CO2 diffusion gradient will exist from the roots to the rhizomes and shoots. Preliminary modelling predicts that when PCOCO2 is higher in a soil than in roots, PCOCO2 in the roots would remain well below the PCOCO2 in the soil, particularly when there is ventilation via a well-developed gas-space continuum from the roots to the atmosphere. The few available results on the effects of PCOCO2 at > 5 kPa on growth have nearly all involved sudden increases to 10-100 kPa PCOCO2; consequently, the results cannot be extrapolated with certainty to the much more gradual increases of PCOCO2 in waterlogged soils. Nevertheless, rice in an anaerobic nutrient solution was tolerant to 50 kPa CO2 being suddenly imposed. By contrast, PCOCO2 at 25 kPa retarded germination of some maize genotypes by 50 %. With regard to metabolism, assuming that the usual pH of the cytoplasm of 7·5 was maintained, every increase of 10 kPa CO2 would result in an increase of 75-90 mM HCO3- in the cytoplasm. pH maintenance would depend on the biochemical and biophysical pH stats (i.e. regulatory systems). Furthermore, there are indications that metabolism is adversely affected when HCO3- in the cytoplasm rises above 50 mM, or even lower; succinic dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase are inhibited by HCO3- as low as 10 mM. Such effects could be mitigated by a decrease in the set point for the pH of the cytoplasm, thus lowering levels of HCO3- at the prevailing PCOCO2 in the roots. • Conclusions Measurements are needed on PCOCO2 in a range of soil types and in roots of diverse species, during waterlogging and flooding. Species well adapted to high PCOCO2 in the root zone, such as rice and other wetland plants, thrive even when PCOCO2 is well over 10 kPa; mechanisms of adaptation, or acclimatization, by these species need exploration.
Received September 27, 2005
Revised December 9, 2005
Accepted February 9, 2006
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Conditions Leading to High CO2 (>5 kPa) in Waterlogged-Flooded Soils and Possible Effects on Root Growth and Metabolism
HANK GREENWAY 1 *,
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG 2,
and
TIMOTHY D. COLMER 1
2 Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull HU6 7RX, UK
HANK GREENWAY, E-mail: hank{at}cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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