Influence of combined hydric and thermal stresses on Rosmarinus officinalis and Cistus albidus
Rawaa Jamaladdeen A , Bruno Coudour A * , Fabienne Dédaldéchamp B , Laurent Lemée
C , Florence Thibault B , Jean-Pierre Garo A and Hui-Ying Wang A
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A Institut P’ - UPR 3346 CNRS, ENSMA, University of Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France. Email: rawaa.jamaladdeen@ensma.fr, jean-pierre.garo@ensma.fr, hui-ying.wang@ensma.fr
B EBI - UMR CNRS 7267, Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France. Email: fabienne.dedaldechamp@univ-poitiers.fr
C IC2MP - UMR CNRS 7285, Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers, University of Poitiers, Poitiers Cedex, France. Email: laurent.lemee@univ-poitiers.fr
* Correspondence to: bruno.coudour@ensma.fr
International Journal of Wildland Fire 32(6) 968-978 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22146
Submitted: 6 July 2022 Accepted: 9 April 2023 Published: 9 May 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of IAWF. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)
Abstract
Background: Wildfires are a growing threat, especially in Mediterranean climate areas during periods of drought. The wildfire research community continues to investigate propagation mechanisms considering thermal transfer and fluid mechanics and sometimes a simplified chemistry taking into account the main combustion products such as CO, CO2, H2O, H2 and CH4. However, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) cannot be neglected and have a major role in vegetation ignition. Despite this, knowledge on the influence of wildfire on plant emissions remains lacking.
Aims: This work addresses the effect of combined hydric and thermal stresses on the physiology and emissions of Rosmarinus officinalis and Cistus albidus, which are widely consumed in Mediterranean wildfires.
Methods: Plants were submitted to hydric stress inside a greenhouse, then to thermal stress inside a heated hermetic enclosure while collecting emissions with adsorbent elements for analysis. Simultaneously, heating experiments were carried out with leaves sampled to analyse their emissions.
Key results: The heating tests showed significant variations in monoterpene, fatty acid and alkane emissions between stressed and unstressed plants with different results between Rosmarinus officinalis and Cistus albidus.
Conclusion/implication: Further experiments with other plant species and quantification of emissions may help to better know why Mediterranean wildfires are a particular threat and how to improve firefighting methods.
Keywords: alkanes, chlorophyll, combined hydric and thermal stresses, fatty acids, hydrocarbons, leaf and plant emissions, microscopy, physiology analyses, plant heating, Py-GC-MS, radiant panel, Rosmarinus officinalis, Cistus albidus, solid-phase extraction elements (SPEE), TD-GC-MS, terpenes, thermodesorption, water content.
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