scholarly journals Rescue and vegetative propagation of Eremanthus erythropappus (DC.) MacLeish in natural stand

Author(s):  
A. L. C. Fonseca ◽  
T. A. Magalhães ◽  
L. A. Melo ◽  
L. S. Oliveira ◽  
G. E. Brondani

Abstract The native stands of ‘candeia’ (Eremanthus erythropappus) have been explored through management plans due to the economic potential of essential oil. The rescue of adult trees, as well as the application of silvicultural techniques that favor the restoration of the stand, can contribute to the genetic conservation of this species. This study’s objective was to assess the efficiency of propagation techniques for the rescue of 26 matrices of ‘candeia’ in a natural managed stand and discussion about the rhizogenesis. In August 2017, trees were induced to regrowth by coppice, followed by exposure and scarification of roots. The emergence of shoots and morphology were evaluated according to the origin (i.e., stump or root). After that period, 19 matrices had their sprouts collected for the preparation of apical cuttings. Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) was applied at the base of the cuttings. Cutting survival at greenhouse exit (GE), rooting at shade house exit (SHE), morphology and root anatomy were evaluated. In 189 days, the scarification of roots promoted 76.92% of budding. The percentage of sprouted matrices, number of shoots per matrice, length, diameter, and shoot length/diameter ratio increased over time. Only 12.2% of the cuttings survived in GE, and of these, 7.9% rooted in SHE. The cutting resulted in the formation of a clonal mini-garden of ‘candeia’, with seven of the 19 matrices submitted to propagation. The anatomical analyses showed that bud formation occurs from cell redifferentiation in the phloem parenchyma, and presence of crystals on the walls of the vessel elements of the secondary xylem. The shoots induction from scarification of roots could be used as a silvicultural practice for the reestablishment of the native fragments handle.

IAWA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna B. Wilczek ◽  
Muhammad Iqbal ◽  
Wieslaw Wloch ◽  
Marcin Klisz

ABSTRACTAll cell types of the secondary xylem arise from the meristematic cells (initials) of the vascular cambium and grow under mechanical constraints emerging from the circular-symmetrical geometry that characterises many tree trunks. The course of intrusive growth of cambial initials has been elucidated, but is yet to be described in the case of xylem fibres. This study explains the geometry of intrusive growth of the secondary xylem fibres in the trunk ofRobinia pseudoacacia.Long series of serial semi-thin sections of the vascular cambium and the differentiating secondary xylem were analysed. Since fibres grow in close vicinity to expanding cells of the derivatives of the vascular cambium, we assumed that they have similar growth conditions. Dealing with the cylindrical tissue of the vascular cambium in a previous study, we used a circularly symmetrical equation for describing the growth mechanism of cambial initials. Like the cambial initials, some of the cambial derivatives differentiating into the various cell types composing the secondary xylem also exhibit intrusive growth between the tangential walls of adjacent cells. As seen in cross sections of the cambium, intrusively growing initials form slanted walls by a gradual transformation of tangential (periclinal) walls into radial (anticlinal) walls. Similarly, the intrusive growth of xylem fibres manifests initially as slants, which are formed due to axial growth of the growing cell tips along the tangential walls of adjacent cells. During this process, the tangential walls of adjacent cells are partly separated and dislocated from the tangential plane. The final shape of xylem fibres, or that of vessel elements and axial parenchyma cells, depends upon the ratio of their intrusiveversussymplastic growths in the axial, circumferential and radial directions.


Biologia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Fritz ◽  
Johannes Saukel

AbstractThe root anatomy of the subalpine to alpine plant species Saussurea discolor (Willd.) DC., and Saussurea pygmaea (Jacq.) Spreng., (Asteraceae) has been investigated by means of light and fluorescence microscopy on specimens of Austrian provenance. Both species develop a so called interxylary cork which mediates the splitting of the root into various strands. This phenomenon takes place in the secondary xylem and involves the development of a periderm separating the originally solid xylem cylinder. Interxylary cork is currently known from approximately 40 species of the Dicotyledones. This is the first report of this specific anatomical structure from the two studied species.


IAWA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa E.T.M. Ashworth ◽  
Gracielza Dos Santos

Secondary xylem characteristics were compared in four species of Phoradendron Nutt. (Viscaceae) native to California. All have extremely short, thick-walled vessel elements with simple perforation plates. They also share high vessel density, radial vessel arrangement, thick-walled fibres, and multiseriate, heterocellular rays. The fibres show considerable intrusive growth. Features of the vessel elements (i.e. vessel dimensions, arrangement, type of wall sculpturing) and calcium oxalate crystals in the ray parenchyma cells are useful diagnostic traits to separate species. Grooved vessel walls are shared by the morphologically similar P. villosum and P. macrophyllum. Differences between these two species may reflect contrasting drought response strategies pursued by respective hosts. Vulnerability and mesomorphy ratios of the wood of P. californicum are higher than those of P. pauciflorum and P. macrophyllum. Phoradendron pauciflorum has the most xeromorphic wood of the four species studied.


IAWA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia R. Machado ◽  
Veronica Angyalossy-Alfonso ◽  
Berta L. de Morretes

Styrax camporum Pohl is a shrub common in the cerrado vegetation of south-eastern Brazil. Root and stem wood in Styrax camporum differ quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative differences follow normal expectations: roots have wider and longer vessel elements, a lower vessel frequency, a lower ray frequency, and wider rays. Qualitative features of the roots are: simple perforation plates, vestured pits, and septate libriform fibres; qualitative features of the stems are: multiple perforation plates, non-vestured pits, and non-septate fibre-tracheids. Based on generally accepted evolutionary trends, root wood of Styrax camporum has more specialized features than stem wood. Additional comparative studies of stem and root anatomy are needed to determine if such differences between root and stem anatomy are widespread, and consistent with the lines of specialization observed in monocotyledons.


IAWA Journal ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro L. B. Lisboa ◽  
J. Cesar A. da Silva ◽  
A. A. Loureiro ◽  
Gracielza M. dos A. dos Santos

A morphological study of vessel elements was carried out in species representing the five genera of Myristicaceae present in the Brazilian Amazon region. The results show that perforation plates of the scalariform type predominate in Compsoneura, Iryanthera and Otoba, where as perforation plates of the simple type predominate in Osteophloeum and Virola. The phylogenetic and taxonomie implications of these findings are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Miodek ◽  
Aldona Gizińska ◽  
Wiesław Włoch ◽  
Paweł Kojs

2017 ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofía Loza-Cornejo ◽  
Teresa Terrazas

Stem and root anatomy of two Wilcoxia species distributed in the northeast of Mexico are studied to contribute to cacti knowledgement, to conclude about their rayless wood and to compare their anatomy with that of other Cactoideae members. Results show that Wilcoxia species have unistratified hypodermis, palisade chlorenchyma, lack of fibers in phloem, and rayless wood. Raylessness probably was an important factor in the evolution ofvascular cámbium in these species. Species differ in sorne quantitative characters and porosity type. In Wilcoxia's tuberous root, vascular tissue is scarse and restricted to radial rows, while storage tissue occurs in cortex and parenchyma associated to secondary xylem. Additional tuberous root developmental studies should contribute to understand anatomical diversity reported for Cactaceae.


2017 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Herrera-Cárdenas ◽  
Teresa Terrazas ◽  
Sofía Loza-Cornejo

Anatomical characters of Neoevansia species were studied to gain insight in their contribution to the systematics of the genus. Characters of the dermal, fundamental, and vascular systems of the stem and root were evaluated and compared with severl species of Peniocereus, Wilcoxia, and Echinocereus. The results revealed that N. striata is characterized by a noncollenchymatous unistratified hypodermis and alternate intervascular pits in vessel elements in the secondary xylem; while N. lazaro-cardenasii and N. zopilotensis can be distinguished by their epidermic cell size and hypodermis width. The increment in volume in Neoevansia tuberous roots is mainly related to cell divisions in rays. Neoevansia lazaro-cardenasii, N. zopilotensis, and N. striata share with Peniocereus the fibrous wood and the phloem fiber cap. The results support the proposals of several authors to transfer the species of Neoevansia to the genus Peniocereus


IAWA Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Heklau ◽  
Peter Gasson ◽  
Fritz Schweingruber ◽  
Pieter Baas

The wood anatomy of the Chenopodiaceae is distinctive and fairly uniform. The secondary xylem is characterised by relatively narrow vessels (<100 μm) with mostly minute pits (<4 μm), and extremely narrow vessels (<10 μm intergrading with vascular tracheids in addition to “normal” vessels), short vessel elements (<270 μm), successive cambia, included phloem, thick-walled or very thick-walled fibres, which are short (<470 μm), and abundant calcium oxalate crystals. Rays are mainly observed in the tribes Atripliceae, Beteae, Camphorosmeae, Chenopodieae, Hablitzieae and Salsoleae, while many Chenopodiaceae are rayless. The Chenopodiaceae differ from the more tropical and subtropical Amaranthaceae s.str. especially in their shorter libriform fibres and narrower vessels. Contrary to the accepted view that the subfamily Polycnemoideae lacks anomalous thickening, we found irregular successive cambia and included phloem. They are limited to long-lived roots and stem borne roots of perennials (Nitrophila mohavensis) and to a hemicryptophyte (Polycnemum fontanesii). The Chenopodiaceae often grow in extreme habitats, and this is reflected by their wood anatomy. Among the annual species, halophytes have narrower vessels than xeric species of steppes and prairies, and than species of nitrophile ruderal sites.


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