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Received December 10, 2002
Returned for revision January 14, 2003
Accepted March 27, 2003

Desiccation Tolerance of Five Tropical Seedlings in Panama. Relationship to a Field Assessment of Drought Performance

Melvin T. Tyree *, Bettina M.J. Engelbrecht , Gustavo Vargas , and Thomas A. Kursar

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, P.O. Box 968, Burlington, Vermont 05402 (M.T.T.); Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 (B.M.J.E.); and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama (G.V., T.A.K.)

* Corresponding author; email: meltyree{at}aol.com.

Studies of the desiccation tolerance of the seedlings of five tropical trees were made on potted plants growing in a greenhouse. Pots were watered to field capacity and then dehydrated for 3 to 9 weeks to reach various visual wilting stages, from slightly wilted to dead. Saturated root hydraulic conductance was measured with a high-pressure flowmeter, and whole-stem hydraulic conductance was measured by a vacuum chamber method. Leaf punches (5.6-mm diameter) were harvested for measurement of leaf water potential by a thermocouple psychrometer method and for measurement of fresh and dry weight. In a parallel study, the same five species were studied in a field experiment in the understory of a tropical forest, where these species frequently germinate. Control seedlings were maintained in irrigated plots during a dry season, and experimental plants were grown in similar plots with rain exclusion shelters. Every 2 to 4 weeks, the seedlings were scored for wilt state and survivorship. After a 22-week drought, the dry plots were irrigated for several weeks to verify visual symptoms of death. The field trials were used to rank drought performance of species, and the greenhouse desiccation studies were used to determine the conditions of moribund plants. Our conclusion is that the desiccation tolerance of moribund plants correlated with field assessment of drought-performance for the five species (r2 > 0.94).




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