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Physiological Responses of Rhododendron mucronulatum and R. indicum with Shading Treatment in Autumn Season  

Lee, Kyung-Jae (Forest Practice Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Song, Ki-Sun (Deptartment of Environmental Science, Graduate School of Konkuk University)
Chung, Young-Suk (Institute of Life and Environment, Konkuk University)
Yoon, Taek-Seong (Suppro Plant Environment Research Center)
Hong, Sung-Kwon (Deptartment of Environmental Science, Konkuk University)
Kim, Jae-Hyun (Deptartment of Environmental Science, Konkuk University)
Lee, Sang-Woo (Deptartment of Environmental Science, Konkuk University)
Kim, Jong-Jin (Deptartment of Environmental Science, Konkuk University)
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Horticultural Science & Technology / v.28, no.3, 2010 , pp. 403-408 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate the physiological responses of $Rhododendron$ $mucronulatum$ Turcz. and $R.$ $indicum$ (L.) Sweet seedlings with 0%, 35%, 55% and 75% shading of full sunlight in polyethylene film house. The shading treatments were performed during the late growth season for each species (from Sept. 9 to Nov. 5, 2008). The shading treatment was effective in reducing the daily temperature by 0.9 to $1.7^{\circ}C$ during September and by 0.8 to $1.7^{\circ}C$ during October. Before the shading treatments, the water content of $R.$ $mucronulatum$ and $R.$ $indicum$ amounted to 68.5% and 66.3%, respectively. The water contents of two species after 75% shading treatment period decreased to 66.2% (3.4% reduction) and 65.9% (0.6% reduction), respectively. Notably, both species had a similar tendency indicating less reduction rate of water content with 75% shading. $R.$ $indicum$ showed higher photosynthetic capacity with higher level of shading, and its photosynthetic capacity reached the highest level ($9.63{\mu}mol{\cdot}m^{-2}{\cdot}s^{-1}$). On the other hand, shading-treated $R.$ $indicum$ showed higher intercellular $CO_2$ concentration, stomatal conductance and transpiration rate (55% shading > 35% shading > 75% shading) than non-treated ones. In addition, non-treated seedlings showed higher water use efficiency than treated ones. In particular, it was found that the leaf color of $R.$ $mucronulatum$ turned equivalent to purple under full sunlight, while its leaf color kept equivalent more to green with higher level of shading, as evidenced even in naked eyes. According to comprehensive analysis using Munsell Color Chart on potential leaf color variations of $R.$ $mucronulatum$ depending on the level of shading, it was found that relatively many leaf colors under full sunlight were equivalent to R (red) and Y (yellow) chart, while relatively many leaf colors with higher level of shading were equivalent to G (green) and Y chart, where the latter still showed green color.
Keywords
Munsell Color Chart; photosynthetic capacity; water contents;
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