Soil temperature moderates grapevine carbohydrate reserves after bud break and conditions fruit set responses to photoassimilatory stress
Suzy Y. Rogiers A B , Jason P. Smith A , Bruno P. Holzapfel A and W. James Hardie A
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A National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, Locked Bag 588, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.
B Corresponding author. Email: suzy.rogiers@industry.nsw.gov.au
Functional Plant Biology 38(11) 899-909 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP10240
Submitted: 13 December 2010 Accepted: 18 August 2011 Published: 30 September 2011
Abstract
In cultivated grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.), suboptimal photoassimilatory conditions during flowering can lead to inflorescence necrosis and shedding of flowers and young ovaries and, consequently, poor fruit set. However, before this study it was not known whether carbohydrate reserves augment fruit set when concurrent photoassimilation is limited. Carbohydrate reserves are most abundant in grapevine roots and soil temperature moderates their mobilisation. Accordingly, we grew potted Chardonnay grapevines in soil at 15°C (cool) or 26°C (warm) from bud break to the onset of flowering to manipulate root carbohydrate reserve status. Then to induce photoassimilatory responses we subjected the plants to low (94 µmol mol–1) CO2 or ambient (336 µmol mol–1) CO2 atmospheres during fruit setting. Analyses of photoassimilation and biomass and carbohydrate reserve distribution confirmed that fruit set was limited by concurrent photoassimilation. Furthermore, the availability of current photoassimilates for inflorescence development and fruit set was conditioned by the simultaneous demands for shoot and root growth, as well as the restoration of root carbohydrate reserves. Results indicate that great seasonal variability in grapevine fruit set is a likely response of cultivated grapevines to photoassimilatory stresses, such as shading, defoliation and air temperature and to variations in carbohydrate reserve status before flowering.
Additional keywords: biomass partitioning, carbon dioxide, carbohydrates, flowering, grapevine, root growth, soil temperature.
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