Cytotype-level responses and of Spartina plants to drought and elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentration

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Global change factors, such as drought and elevated atmospheric CO₂ levels, can have strong impacts on plant performance and evolutionary development. We investigated responses of Spartina (syn.: Sporobolus P.M.Peterson & Saarela) plants on different ploidy levels (cytotypes), i.e., the hybrid Spartina x townsendii H. Groves & J. Groves (syn.: Sporobolus × townsendii P.M.Peterson & Saarela) and its genome-duplicated (allopolyploid) descendant Spartina anglica C.E. Hubbard (syn.: Sporobolus anglicus P.M.Peterson & Saarela), to drought and elevated atmospheric CO₂ levels, regarding plant functional traits and biomass. Spartina plants were sampled in 2017 from a Spartina-marsh at Sönke-Nissen-Koog, Germany, and cytotype analysis was performed by DAPI staining for flow cytometry. Ramets from donor individuals of these plants were used in a greenhouse experiment at University of Hamburg, Germany. The plants were grown in 2 L pots and weekly fertilized with commercial Hakaphos® Blau (15-10-15) NPK fertilizer solution (1% v/v; 50 mL per pot). Three cytotype replicates of both hybrid and allopolyploid plants were treated from May to October 2018 under greenhouse daylight conditions (day/night air temperature 27 °C / 22 °C; 70%–80% relative air humidity; length of the photoperiod typical for the northern Germany region) with drought (vs. well-watered) and elevated (vs. ambient) CO₂ concentrations. At the end of the experiment, total biomass and plant traits, i.e., root-to-shoot ratio, stem diameter, leaf area, stem density, and stomatal length were determined. We here report the result values of three to six technical replicates from three biological replicates per treatment combination.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.973270
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00985-4
Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.973271
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Creator Granse, Dirk ORCID logo; Wendt, Paul; Suchrow, Sigrid; Hanelt, Dieter; Fromm, Jörg; Milin, Morgane; Lima, Oscar; Salmon, Armel; Ainouche, Malika; Jensen, Kai (ORCID: 0000-0002-0543-070X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Gleichstellung und Bezirke https://ror.org/02c585m74 ROR LFF-FV 36 Hybrids (Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2052 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (8.877 LON, 54.601 LAT); Wadden Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-07-20T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-07-27T18:00:00Z