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Plant water regime

Plant water regime. Transpiration Leaf energy balance Fick laws Boundary layer Cuticle Stomata. Leaf energy balance. Energy sources: shortwave sun radiation longwave radiation emitted by sky and surrounding

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Plant water regime

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  1. Plant water regime • Transpiration • Leaf energy balance • Fick laws • Boundary layer • Cuticle • Stomata

  2. Leaf energy balance • Energy sources: • shortwave sun radiation • longwave radiation emitted by sky and surrounding • Solar radiation might be reflected, absorbed or transmitted (according to wave length) • Energy balance: • SRnet + LRnet + C + E + M = 0 • SRnet, LRnet - absorbed short-wave or long-wave radiation, C - heat transport (sensible heat flow), E - heat used for vaporization (latent heat flow), M - energy consumption or production by metabolism • Bowen ratio = C/E

  3. Effect of plant on energy balanceAbsorbance, reflectance and transmittance is affected by leaf area, orientation in space, quality of leaf surface, leaf anatomyLatent heat flow by transpiration

  4. s Rnet + c (es-e)/ra E =  s + (ra+rs)/ra E - latent heat flow s - change of water vapour pressure with temperature, Rnet - absorbed radiation,  - density, c - specific heat, es - e – difference between saturated and actual water vapour pressure,  - psychrometric constant, ra - boundary layer resistance, rs - stomatal resistance Penman-Montheith equation

  5. Fick laws • 1st Fick law: • Jv = -D (dc / dx) • 2nd Fick law: • dc / dt = - dJv / dx = D (d2c / dx2) • Jv - transport rate, D - diffusion coefficient, dc/dx - gradient of concentration, • t - time • sub-stomatal cavities, stomata, boundary layer

  6. Transpiration rate • E = glc • E - transpiration rate mmol m-2 s-1 or g m-2 s-1 • gl - leaf conductance (gl = -D) mol m-2 s-1 or m s-1 • c - difference in water vapour concentration between ambient air and air in sub-stomatal cavities (dc/dx) mmol mol-1 • gl = gs + gc • 1/gl = 1/ga + 1/gs + 1/gi • gs - stomatal conductance, gc - cuticular conductance, • ga - boundary layer conductance, gi - conductance in intercellular spaces • g = 1/r, r - resistance

  7. Transpiration stomatal (Es), cuticular (Ecu) and peristomatal (Ep)

  8. Water vapour concentration in substomatal cavity and boundary layer cl = cs ew(Vw/RT) cl - water vapour concentration in sub-stomatal cavity, cs - saturated concentration, w - leaf water potential Vw - molar volume of water R - gas constant T - temperature

  9. Boundary layer • Thickness (da) is dependent on wind speed, leaf shape, roughness of his surface, presence of trichomes • ( 0.01 - 1 mm) • da = 4 L/v • L - leaf length in the direction of air flow, v - wind speed

  10. Relationship between transpiration rate and stomatal conductance is affected by boundary layer thickness (wind speed)

  11. Cuticle • Cuticle- adaptation to drought • Structure and composition: upper layer of the cell wall is impregnated by cutin and waxes (endocuticular or epicuticular waxes) • Cuticular conductance for water is 1.7 - 28.6 % of stomatal conductance • Cuticular conductance for CO2 is only 6 % of that for water • Cuticular conductance has higher importance when stomata are partially or completely closed • Cuticular conductance is dependent on plant species, age and conditions. It is very low in species adapted to dry conditions, in contrast,it is high in plants in vitro. Usually it increases during leaf ontogeny and decreases during dehydration.

  12. Leaf epidermis structure

  13. Cuticle matrix

  14. Arrangement of cuticular waxes on leaf surface

  15. Effect of air humidity on permeability of cuticle in different plant species

  16. Stomata Area of apeture of all stomata is about 1 % of leaf area, nevertheless, water vapour efflux corresponds to that from free water Two types: kidney-shaped and dumbbell shaped Development during leaf ontogeny Stomatal density 20 - 2 000 mm-2, different size Amfistomatic and hypostomatic leaves, adaxial/abaxial ratio, e.g.: wheat 33/14, maize 48/52, oat - 25/23, sunflower 85/156, tomato 12/130, apple tree 0/235 Sun/shade leaves : beech 113/416, hornbeam 170/365 Heterogeneity on one leaf area Stomatal patchiness

  17. Stomatal heterogeneity on leaf area of Commelina communis

  18. Stomatal patchiness in Nicotiana tabacum

  19. Methods • 1) Gravimetric methods • 2) Transpiration curves (water loss by detached leaves) enable to differentiate stomatal and cuticular transpiration • 3) Determination of transpiration rate from the changes in air humidity in leaf chamber • 4) Calculation of transpiration rate from measurements of water flow in xylem • 5) Calculation of evapotranspiration from energy balance

  20. Methods • 1) Cuticular conductance • a) transport HTO or fluorescent dyes in isolated cuticle • b) measurement of water efflux from epidermis without stomata or with closed stomata • 2) Microscopic methods for determination of stomatal density, shape, size and aperture • a) in situ • b) microrelief (replica) methods • 3) Determination of stomatal conductance • a) diffusion porometers • b) mass flow porometers • c) calculation from transpiration rate

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