Effect of abandonment and plant classification on carbohydrate reserves of meadow plants

0357562 - BÚ 2011 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Janeček, Štěpán - Lanta, Vojtěch - Klimešová, Jitka - Doležal, Jiří
Effect of abandonment and plant classification on carbohydrate reserves of meadow plants.
Plant Biology. Roč. 13, č. 2 (2010), s. 243-251. ISSN 1435-8603. E-ISSN 1438-8677
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA526/09/0963; GA ČR(CZ) GA526/06/0723
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : carbohydrates * meadow * abandonment
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 2.409, year: 2010

We studied the effect of cessation of management on carbohydrate reserves of plants in meadows with different environmental characteristics and plant composition. We recorded storage carbohydrates and seasonal changes for 40 plant species. We asked whether there are differences in responses of carbohydrate reserves in forbs versus graminoids and in plants storing starch versus plants storing osmotically active carbohydrates. We analysed belowground organs before the meadows were mown and at the end of the vegetation season in mown versus recently abandoned plots. Whereas starch and fructans were widely distributed, raffinose family oligosaccharides were the main carbohydrate reserves of the Lamiaceae and Plantago lanceolata. Properties of carbohydrate reserves differed between forbs and graminoids but no difference was found between plants storing starch versus osmotically active carbohydrates.
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