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Effect of Shading Levels on the Soil Properties, Growth Characteristics, and Chlorophyll Contents of Ligularia stenocephala  

Park, Byoung-Mo (Department of Ecology Landscape Architecture-Design, Graduate School of Chonbuk National University)
Kim, Chang-Hwan (Department of Ecology Landscape Architecture-Design, Graduate School of Chonbuk National University)
Bae, Jong-Hyang (Division of Horticulture and Pet Animal-Plant Science, Wonkwang University)
Shin, Jung-Ryeul (Department of Ecology Landscape Architecture-Design, Graduate School of Chonbuk National University)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.20, no.4, 2011 , pp. 352-356 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is true that the industrial development has usually been accompanied with urbanization or centralization of population that has inevitably led to high-rise buildings and densely built-up living area in the cities. While it is badly needed to acquire as much green land within the city limits as possible to compensate for reduced space for recreational purpose in parallel with increasingly urbanized area, the living conditions of plants have become seriously devastated due to shortage of sun light walled-off by high-rise buildings and contaminated environment and air. The shade that is generated by high-rise and compact buildings hinders growth of plants, which makes it urgent to develop native ground cover plant that is strongly viable in the shade. For this purpose, Ligularia stenocephala, best known as greens for Ssam (rice and condiments wrapped in leaves) was cultivated under the 30%, 50%, and 80% shadings and observed to see if there would be any changes in soil conditions, growth of plants and chlorophyll contents depending on the shading rate. The leaf number was 10.8 pieces under the 50% shading and 8.4 under the 30%-shading, 7.7 pieces more than that cultivated under lighting. The leaf width turned out to be excellent from cultivation under the 50%- shading, an evidence indicating its possibility of being cultivated as native ground cover plant in the shade. The live weight of the plants cultivated under the shading increased to 31.63 g, 43.39 g and 19.40 g, respectively, compared to 90.43 g of those in the untreated control plot. The increase in growth of roots was particularly significant with 48.48 g in comparison to 12.33 g under 30% shading cultivation. The chlorophyll synthesis amounted to 46.2 under the 50% shading, showing an increase compared to 41.9 under lighting. The chlorophyll synthesis rather shrank under other shading conditions. The cultivation of Ligularia stenocephala under the 50% shading showed the best condition in growth as native ground cover plant.
Keywords
ground cover plant; Ligularia stenocephala; shade adaptation;
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