Seasonality in the Amazon Rainforest is predicted to become more extreme, with dry seasons increasing in length and severity, while severe episodic droughts are expected to occur with greater frequency. Drought stress can reduce the capacity of the rainforest to sequester carbon, and severe drought events can switch the region from being a net sink to a temporary source of carbon to the atmosphere. A key component in the drought-induced carbon flux is tree mortality, and there is evidence of strong feedbacks globally and regionally in the Amazon with climate change. Although the exact cause of drought-induced mortality in trees is difficult to ascertain, recent data suggests that reduced functionality of the water transport pathway (hydraulic failure) is an important factor. Hydraulic vulnerability in trees is often assessed using measurements of the capacity of stems and branches to cope with the strongly negative internal water pressures associated with drought. However, leaves play a vital role in protecting the integrity of the ‘upstream’ hydraulic pathway by influencing the rate of transpiration and thus the tension in the water column. Therefore, the physiology of leaves can be informative of, and influence, tree species’ sensitivity to drought. This thesis uses a long-term large-scale rainfall exclusion experiment in the Eastern Amazon to examine the possible link between leaf physiology and drought sensitivity (or tolerance) by different taxa, and the capacity of mature, upper canopy Amazonian trees to respond to drought via plastic changes in leaf physiology. The plasticity in response to experimental drought and the differences between taxa classed as drought-sensitive and drought-resistant based on drought induced mortality records were tested by the study of leaf water relations (Chapter 2), leaf anatomy (Chapter 3) and foliar water uptake (Chapter 4). No consistent differences were found between drought-resistant and drought-sensitive species suggesting that the sensitivity of these species to drought may be due to other aspects of plant physiology. However, a limited response to the imposed drought conditions was detected across all taxa and included reductions of osmotic potential at full turgor and turgor loss point (Chapter 2), and increases in the thickness of the upper epidermis and the leaf internal cavity volume (Chapter 3). Interestingly, drought-sensitive taxa showed more seasonal osmotic adjustment than drought-resistant taxa, indicating that short-term responses to drought (e.g. season) are not representative of the capacity for adjustment in response to long-term water deficits. No significant changes occurred in leaf size, thickness, stomatal and vein density, the quantity of the inner leaf tissues (i.e. the palisade and spongy mesophyll) and mesophyll cell size, in response to the experimental drought. The experiments on foliar water uptake in Chapter 4 revealed that this rarely-considered process occurs in all taxa, but the response to the drought treatment differed among taxa. Using a simple model, foliar water uptake was scaled up to canopy level. Under normal conditions (i.e. no drought) canopy foliar uptake was calculated to be 29.9 ± 2.3 mm year-1 from rainfall alone, but this increased to a maximum of 51.9 ± 2.3 mm year-1 when including the input of dew in the dry season. However, lower water potential in the drought plot causing increased rates of foliar water uptake, led to estimates of 38.7 ± 3.0 mm year-1 (rainfall only) and 68.9 ± 2.9 mm year-1 (including dry season dew). Taken together, these results demonstrate that Amazonian trees show some limited capacity for acclimation to drought through the changes in leaf physiology measured in this thesis. Low turgor loss point is associated with dry climate-adapted plants, so the finding that this parameter reduced in response to the drought reveals some potential for Amazonian trees to acclimate with the predicted changes in moisture availability. However, the limited response of leaf anatomy to long-term drought might suggest that acclimation may only occur within a narrow range. The finding that six common Amazonian tree genera can take water up through their leaves has considerable implications for understanding the Amazon water budget, in terms of the contribution of dew and light rainfall to canopy water status, but also the implications it has for the hydraulic vulnerability of trees in rainforests right across the Amazon basin.

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Normal healthy growth and development of plants is controlled by certain factors known as factors of plant growth. They are soil, climate, and plant inheritance. The soil contains many nutrient elements needed by plants both in macro and micro quantities. Iron is one of the essential elements required by plants in small amounts. When plants are starving for any of the essential nutrients, characteristic symptoms usually appear as certain abnormalities, discoloration and deformation of leaves, fruits, and other parts. The deficiency symptoms, though not easily recognizable in some cases at the beginning, are quite apparent in advanced stages of plant growth. The characteristic symptom of iron deficiency in plant nutrition is chlorosis. Chlorosis is a general term which denotes a lack of chlorophyll in leaves and replacement of the normal green color either wholly or in part by yellow color. In most cases the chlorosis is characterized by a distribution of the yellow color throughout the green in patterns. The more specific term, iron chlorosis, refers to chlorosis due to iron deficiency in the plant and which can be alleviated by providing the plant with suitable iron compounds.

Graduation date: 2006

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Plant Biology." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Biology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27).

Proefschrift--Utrecht. / "Stellingen": p. [143]-144. "Litteratuuroverzicht": p. [129]-137.

Inaug.-diss.--Basel. / Vita. "Separatabdruck von dem "Recueil des travaux botaniques neérlandais", volume XVI, livraison I, 1919." "Literatur-verzeichnia": p. [58]-59.

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