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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (20): 47-52.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0655

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Effects of Light on Biological Productivity and Photosynthetic Capacity of Phragmites australis

LIAN Xiaoqian1,2(), TAO Changzhu1,2, GUO Haolan1,2, LI Nana1,2, CAO Yue1,2, WU Pengfei1,2()   

  1. 1College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002
    2Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration on Soil and Water Conservation of Red Soil Region in Southern China, Fuzhou 350002
  • Received:2021-07-01 Revised:2021-09-13 Online:2022-07-15 Published:2022-08-23
  • Contact: WU Pengfei E-mail:1158438795@qq.com;fjwupengfei@126.com

Abstract:

Phragmites australis is an excellent afforestation material in aquatic-terrestrial ecotone. In order to study its response to different light environments, taking P. australis populations distributed in different light habitats along the waterfront as the objects, the effects of light intensity on the growth, biomass accumulation and photosynthetic capacity of P. australis were determined. In this experiment, based on the method of in-situ observation in field to measure plant height, ground diameter, leaf SPAD value and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters of P. australis under full light and canopy shading respectively, the biomass of different organs was determined by indoor test using the measure of whole plant harvest. The results show that: (1) under canopy shading, the plant height, leaf biomass and stem biomass of P. australis are higher than those under full light environment by 30.95%, 56.08% and 84.37%, respectively, the plant height of P. australis has significantly positive correlations with the diameter at root collar and stem dry weight, and the coefficients are 0.692 and 0.875, respectively; (2) there is significant difference of the SPAD value of P. australis leaves between the two light conditions, compared with that of the full light environment, the SPAD value of leaves under canopy shading is 25.98% higher; (3) canopy shading could significantly promote the value of chlorophyll fluorescence parameter Fm and the maximum photochemical quantum yield Fv/ Fm of PSII by 34.14% and 10.73%, respectively.

Key words: Phragmites australis, biomass allocation, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, light environment

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