Uptake of phosphorus from sediment by aquatic plants, Myriophyllum spicatum and Hydrilla verticillata

1978 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
J BOLE ◽  
J ALLAN
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Barnes ◽  
Christopher L. Jerde ◽  
Doug Keller ◽  
W. Lindsay Chadderton ◽  
Jennifer G. Howeth ◽  
...  

AbstractDesiccation following prolonged air exposure challenges survival of aquatic plants during droughts, water drawdowns, and overland dispersal. To improve predictions of plant response to air exposure, we observed the viability of vegetative fragments of 10 aquatic plant species (Cabomba caroliniana, Ceratophyllum demersum, Elodea canadensis, Egeria densa, Myriophyllum aquaticum, Myriophyllum heterophyllum, Myriophyllum spicatum, Potamogeton crispus, Potamogeton richardsonii, and Hydrilla verticillata) following desiccation. We recorded mass loss, desiccation rate, and plant fragment survival across a range of air exposures. Mass loss accurately predicted viability of aquatic plant fragments upon reintroduction to water. However, similar periods of air exposure differentially affected viability between species. Understanding viability following desiccation can contribute to predicting dispersal, improving eradication protocols, and disposing of aquatic plants following removal from invaded lakes or contaminated equipment.


Weed Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Erika J. Haug ◽  
Khalied A. Ahmed ◽  
Travis W. Gannon ◽  
Rob J. Richardson

Abstract Additional active ingredients are needed for use in aquatic systems in order to respond to new threats or treatment scenarios, enhance selectivity, reduce use rates, and to mitigate the risk of herbicide-resistance. Florpyrauxifen-benzyl is a new synthetic auxin developed for use as an aquatic herbicide. A study was conducted at North Carolina State University, in which 10 µg L−1 of 25% radiolabeled florpyrauxifen-benzyl was applied to the isolated shoot tissue of ten different aquatic plant species in order to elucidate absorption and translocation patterns in these species. Extremely high levels of shoot absorption were observed for all species and uptake was rapid. Highest shoot absorptions were observed for crested floatingheart [Nymphoides cristata (Roxb.) Kuntze] (A192 =20 µg g−1), dioecious hydrilla [Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle] (A192 =25.3 µg g−1), variable watermilfoil (Myriophyllum heterophylum Michx.) (A192 =40.1 µg g−1) and Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.) (A192 =25.3 µg g−1). Evidence of translocation was observed in all rooted species tested with the greatest translocation observed in N. cristata (1.28 µg g-1 at 192 HAT). The results of this study add to the growing body of knowledge surrounding the behavior of this newly registered herbicide within aquatic plants.


1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (12) ◽  
pp. 1584-1588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig S. Smith

A bicarbonate-buffered hard-water medium was evaluated for the solution (nonrooted) culture of submersed aquatic plants. The new medium had an initial pH of 8.2, and after 2 weeks of plant growth in it, pH values remained similar to those in hard-water lakes. Several plants from hard-water lakes grew more rapidly in the new medium than in the commonly used Gerloff medium. When cultures were aerated with air, Myriophyllum spicatum growth was nearly twice as great in the new medium as in Gerloff medium, and growth of Vallisneria americana and Elodea canadensis in the new medium was 4 and 13 times that in Gerloff medium, respectively. When both cultures were aerated with 1% CO2, growth rates of M. spicatum and E. canadensis in the new medium were not distinguishable from those in Gerloff medium, but the growth of V. americana was 40% greater in the new medium. Myriophyllum spicatum was much less susceptible to attack by the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in the new medium than in Gerloff medium, similar to the susceptibility shown in nutrient-amended lake water. Key words: aquatic plants, culture techniques, plant pathogens.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Farid Abu Bakar ◽  
Ismail Yusoff ◽  
Ng Tham Fatt ◽  
Faridah Othman ◽  
Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf

The potential of three submerged aquatic plant species (Cabomba piauhyensis, Egeria densa, andHydrilla verticillata) to be used for As, Al, and Zn phytoremediation was tested. The plants were exposed for 14 days under hydroponic conditions to mine waste water effluents in order to assess the suitability of the aquatic plants to remediate elevated multi-metals concentrations in mine waste water. The results show that theE. densaandH. verticillataare able to accumulate high amount of arsenic (95.2%) and zinc (93.7%) and resulted in a decrease of arsenic and zinc in the ambient water. On the other hand,C. piauhyensisshows remarkable aluminium accumulation in plant biomass (83.8%) compared to the other tested plants. The ability of these plants to accumulate the studied metals and survive throughout the experiment demonstrates the potential of these plants to remediate metal enriched water especially for mine drainage effluent. Among the three tested aquatic plants,H. verticillatawas found to be the most applicable (84.5%) and suitable plant species to phytoremediate elevated metals and metalloid in mine related waste water.


1984 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 525 ◽  
Author(s):  
CM Finlayson ◽  
TP Farrell ◽  
DJ Griffiths

The biomass of aquatic plant species and the standing crop of submerged species were estimated in Lake Moondarra from 1977 to 1979. In July 1978, the biomass of Salvinia molesta exceeded 53 000 t fresh weight, with a density of 167 t ha-1 (0.81 kg dry wt m-2). Hydrilla verticillata reached a maximum density of almost 3 kg dry wt m-2 and Potamogeton crispus more than double that density. Photosynthetic activity of a range of species was high, and was still detectable at water depths allowing only very low light penetration. Organic nitrogen concentrations were high (0.91-4.37% dry wt), and phosphorus (0.07-0.47% dry wt) appeared to be a limiting factor for growth of the aquatic plants. Heavy metal concentrations varied with species, location and season but, although generally higher than world-wide 'mean' values (48 �g g-1 copper, 11 �g g-1 lead, 14.3 �g g-1 zinc), were significantly less than those of aquatic macrophytes in heavily polluted environments. H. verticillata was more efficient than S. molesta in removal of nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc, whereas for copper and lead the reverse was true. The potential for using this property of the aquatic plants and subsequent harvesting in order to remove nutrients and metals from the lake is also discussed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mudge ◽  
Kurt Getsinger

Herbicide selection is key to efficiently managing nuisance vegetation in our nation’s waterways. After selecting the active ingredient, there still remains multiple proprietary and generic products to choose from. Recent small-scale research has been conducted to compare the efficacy of these herbicides against floating and emergent species. Therefore, a series of mesocosm and growth chamber trials were conducted to evaluate subsurface applications of the following herbicides against submersed plants: diquat versus coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum L.), hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata L.f. Royle), southern naiad (Najas guadalupensis (Sprengel) Magnus), and Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum L.); flumioxazin versus coontail, hydrilla, and Eurasian watermilfoil; and triclopyr against Eurasian watermilfoil. All active ingredients were applied at concentrations commonly used to manage these species in public waters. Visually, all herbicides within a particular active ingredient performed similarly with regard to the onset and severity of injury symptoms throughout the trials. All trials, except diquat versus Eurasian watermilfoil, resulted in no differences in efficacy among the 14 proprietary and generic herbicides tested, and all herbicides provided 43%–100% control, regardless of active ingredient and trial. Under mesocosm and growth chamber conditions, the majority of the generic and proprietary herbicides evaluated against submersed plants provided similar control.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren M. Kuehne ◽  
Carl O. Ostberg ◽  
Dorothy M. Chase ◽  
Jeffrey J. Duda ◽  
Julian D. Olden

1978 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 851-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. JABBAR MUZTAR ◽  
S. J. SLINGER ◽  
J. H. BURTON

Mineral composition of aquatic plants from Chemung Lake and Lake Ontario was investigated. The four species harvested at progressive dates in 1974 showed no trend of variation in their individual mineral contents. This was probably because some dates did not correspond with a specific growth stage. All the four species harvested at three dates, except Myriophyllum spicatum and Vallisneria americana collected in September, were extremely high in ash. Myriophyllum and Vallisneria harvested in September represented immature plants, since these were obtained from sites harvested previously and consequently were much lower in ash. Calcium and phosphorus levels varied with the ash content, with the former being the major cation in all species. Analyses of washed and unwashed samples of several macrophytes harvested in 1975 showed that extremely high ash was the result of surface calcification with CaCO3. Silica, Co, Cu and Se were present at safe levels for feeding to animals. Results indicated that harvesting aquatic plants has the potential to remove large quantities of mineral nutrients from the aquatic environment, and feeding good quality plants to herbivore and poultry could meet their requirements for many of the mineral elements.


1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koei Hamana ◽  
Masaru Niitsu ◽  
Keijiro Samejima

Four aquatic plants were tested for the occurrence of unusual polyamines. The leaves of the aquatic plants tested ubiquitously contained homospermidine in addition to usual polyamines such as diaminopropane, putrescine, cadaverine, spermidine, spermine, and agmatine. Brasenia schreberi and Nuphar japonicum belonging to the family Nymphaeaceae contained aminopropylhomospermidine. Norspermidine and norspermine were detected in the blackweed Hydrilla verticillata belonging to Hydrocharitaceae. Thermospermine was detected in Brasenia schreberi. A novel tetraamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl)-1,2-ethanediamine (NH2(CH2)3NH(CH2)2NH(CH2)3NH2), was discovered in the aquatic plant Nuphar japonicum. This is the first report of the occurrence of N4-methylspermidine (NH2(CH2)3N(CH3)(CH2)4NH2) in the water chestnut Trapa natas belonging to the family Hydrocaryaceae. Key words: aquatic plants, polyamine, bis(aminopropyl)ethandiamine, methylspermidine.


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