Adjustments of water use efficiency by stomatal regulation during drought and recovery in the drought-adapted Vitis hybrid Richter-110 (V. berlandieri × V. rupestris)

  1. Alícia Pou1,
  2. Jaume Flexas1,*,
  3. Maria del Mar Alsina2,
  4. Josefina Bota1,
  5. Cecilia Carambula1,
  6. Felicidad De Herralde2,
  7. Jeroni Galmés1,
  8. Claudio Lovisolo3,
  9. Miguel Jiménez4,
  10. Miquel Ribas-Carbó1,
  11. Denis Rusjan5,
  12. Francesca Secchi3,
  13. Magdalena Tomàs1,
  14. Zsolt Zsófi6,
  15. Hipólito Medrano1

Article first published online: 28 JUN 2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2008.01138.x

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Physiologia Plantarum

Physiologia Plantarum

Volume 134, Issue 2, pages 313–323, October 2008

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Pou, A., Flexas, J., Alsina, M. d. M., Bota, J., Carambula, C., De Herralde, F., Galmés, J., Lovisolo, C., Jiménez, M., Ribas-Carbó, M., Rusjan, D., Secchi, F., Tomàs, M., Zsófi, Z. and Medrano, H. (2008), Adjustments of water use efficiency by stomatal regulation during drought and recovery in the drought-adapted Vitis hybrid Richter-110 (V. berlandieri × V. rupestris). Physiologia Plantarum, 134: 313–323. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2008.01138.x

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  1. 1

    Grup de Recerca en Biologia de les Plantes en Condicions Mediterrànies, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Balears, Spain

  2. 2

    Departament de Tecnologia Hortícola, IRTA, Torre Marimon, E-08140 Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain

  3. 3

    Dipartimento di Colture Arboree, Università di Torino, Via Leonardo Da Vinci 44, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy

  4. 4

    Instituto de Investigación y Formación Agraria y Pesquera (IFAPA), Paraje San Nicolás s/n. La Mojonera 04745, Almería, Spain

  5. 5

    Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia

  6. 6

    Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of Zagreb, 3301-Eger, Kőlyuktető, PO Box 83, Hungary

* *e-mail: jaume.flexas@uib.es

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 15 SEP 2008
  2. Article first published online: 28 JUN 2008
  3. Received 28 March 2008; revised 6 May 2008

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The hybrid Richter-110 (Vitis berlandieri × Vitis rupestris) (R-110) has the reputation of being a genotype strongly adapted to drought. A study was performed with plants of R-110 subjected to water withholding followed by re-watering. The goal was to analyze how stomatal conductance (gs) is regulated with respect to different physiological variables under water stress and recovery, as well as how water stress affects adjustments of water use efficiency (WUE) at the leaf level. Water stress induced a substantial stomatal closure and an increase in WUE, which persisted many days after re-watering. The gs during water stress was mainly related to the content of ABA in the xylem and partly related to plant hydraulic conductivity but not to leaf water potential. By contrast, low gs during re-watering did not correlate with ABA contents and was only related to a sustained decreased hydraulic conductivity. In addition to a complex physiological regulation of stomatal closure, gs and rate of transpiration (E) were strongly affected by leaf-to-air vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in a way dependent of the treatment. Interestingly, E increased with increasing VPD in control plants, but decreased with increasing VPD in severely stressed plants. All together, the fine stomatal regulation in R-110 resulted in very high WUE at the leaf level. This genotype is revealed to be very interesting for further studies on the physiological mechanisms leading to regulation of stomatal responsiveness and WUE in response to drought.

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