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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

A continuum of stomatal responses to water deficits among 17 wine grape cultivars (Vitis vinifera)

Alexander D. Levin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7975-1656 A B E , Larry E. Williams C D and Mark A. Matthews C
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A Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.

B Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center, 569 Hanley Road., Central Point, OR 97502, USA.

C Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

D Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, 9240 S. Riverbend Avenue., Parlier, CA 93648, USA.

E Corresponding author. Email: alexander.levin@oregonstate.edu.

Functional Plant Biology 47(1) 11-25 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP19073
Submitted: 15 March 2019  Accepted: 19 July 2019   Published: 16 October 2019

Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2019 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Vitis vinifera L. cultivars have been previously classified as isohydric, near-isohydric, anisohydric or isohydrodynamic, depending on the study. To test the hypothesis that V. vinifera cultivars’ stomatal behaviour can be separated into distinct classes, 17 cultivars grown in a replicated field trial were subjected to three irrigation treatments to manipulate vine water status across multiple years. Predawn (ΨPD) and midday (Ψl) leaf water potential and midday stomatal conductance (gs) were measured regularly throughout several seasons. The relationship of gs to Ψl was best modelled as a sigmoidal function and maximum stomatal conductance (gmax), water status at the onset of stomatal closure (Ψl95), sensitivity of closure (gsensitivity) and water status at the end of closure (Ψl25) were compared. There were no significant differences in gmax among cultivars. Cultivar-specific responses of gs to Ψl were broadly distributed along a continuum based on the relationship between Ψl95 and gsensitivity. Season-long cultivar mean Ψl values were positively related to Ψl25. In general, cultivars responded similarly to one another at high and low water status, but their stomatal behaviour differed at moderate water deficits. The results show that V. vinifera cultivars possess both iso- and anisohydric stomatal behaviours that depend on the intensity of water deficits, and call into question previous classifications assuming a single behaviour.

Additional keywords: genotypic variation, grapevine physiology, stomatal conductance, water potential.


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