Oxygen Deficiency in Spartina alterniflora Roots: Metabolic Adaptation to Anoxia
- 23 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4519) , 439-441
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4519.439
Abstract
The aerenchyma (air-space) tissue in the wetland macrophyte Spartina alterniflora conveys sufficient oxygen to roots for predominately aerobic respiration in moderately, but not highly, reduced substrates. Continuously flooded plants survive by respiring anaerobically, although growth is decreased. Two metabolic adaptations to flooding are displayed in this species, depending on the degree of soil reduction.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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