<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fusaro, Lina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mereu, Simone</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brunetti, Cecilia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Di Ferdinando, Martina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ferrini, Francesco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Manes, Fausto</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatori, Elisabetta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marzuoli, Riccardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gerosa, Giacomo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tattini, Massimiliano</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosynthetic performance and biochemical adjustments in two co-occurring Mediterranean evergreens, Quercus ilex and Arbutus unedo, differing in salt-exclusion ability</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">leaf longevity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">net ion fluxes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">salt tolerance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stomatal conductance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">violaxanthin-cycle pigments</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">water relations.</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CSIRO PUBLISHING</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">150 OXFORD ST, PO BOX 1139, COLLINGWOOD, VICTORIA 3066, AUSTRALIA</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">391-400</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The responses to mild root zone salinity stress were investigated in two co-occurring Mediterranean woody evergreens, Quercus ilex L. and Arbutus unedo L., which differ in morpho-anatomical traits and strategies to cope with water deficit. The aim was to explore their strategies to allocate potentially toxic ions at organism level, and the consequential physiological and biochemical adjustments. Water and ionic relations, gas exchange and PSII performance, the concentration of photosynthetic pigments, and the activity of antioxidant defences, were measured. Q. ilex displayed a greater capacity to exclude Na+ and Cl- from the leaf than A. unedo, in part as a consequence of greater reductions in transpiration rates. Salt-induced reductions in CO2 assimilation resulted in Q. ilex suffering from excess of light to a greater extent than A. unedo. Consistently, in Q. ilex effective mechanisms of nonphotochemical quenching, also sustained by the lutein epoxide-lutein cycle, operated in response to salinity stress. Q. ilex also displayed a superior capacity to detoxify reactive oxygen species (ROS) than A. unedo. Our data suggest that the ability to exclude salt from actively growing shoot organs depends on the metabolic cost of sustaining leaf construction, i.e. species-specific leaf life-span, and the relative strategies to cope with salt-induced water stress. We discuss how contrasting abilities to restrict the entry and transport of salt in sensitive organs relates with species-specific salt tolerance.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mereu, Simone</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gerosa, Giacomo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marzuoli, Riccardo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fusaro, Lina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salvatori, Elisabetta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Finco, Angelo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spano, Donatella</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Manes, Fausto</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gas exchange and JIP-test parameters of two Mediterranean maquis species are affected by sea spray and ozone interaction</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental and Experimental Botany</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antagonistic interaction</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">dark respiration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JIP-test</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OTC</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxidative stress</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PSI</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elsevier B.V.</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">73</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">80-88</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean maquis coastal ecosystems are subject to multiple oxidative stresses of both natural and anthropic origin, as sea spray, drought, high irradiance and ozone. In this article it is hypothesized that the interaction of ozone and sea spray is additive as a consequence of a higher reactive oxigen species accumulation. To test the hypothesis, an experiment was conducted in an Open Top Chambers facility where plants of Quercus ilex L. and Arbutus unedo L. were exposed to two levels of ozone and two levels of sea spray. The response of the species was evaluated by measurements of structural parameters (shoot growth and leaf biomass) and physiological parameters (leaf level gas exchange and chlorophyll a ﬂuorescence). The results contradict the hypothesis as the interaction of the two stresses is antagonistic on both species. The structure of both species was negatively affected by sea spray, however the two stresses combined allowed a higher growth and leaf area in A. unedo. The leaf level physiology of A. unedo was only moderately affected by the two stresses alone and in combined, while that of Q. ilex was altered to a further extent by sea spray and by its combination with ozone: photosynthesis and efﬁciency of the PSII was reduced by sea spray while the ratio of PSII to PSI was increased; the two stresses combined, instead, decreased the PSII to PSI ratio allowing for a higher photosynthesis. It is concluded that A. unedo is more resistant than Q. ilex to the two stresses alone and in combination, that ozone and sea spray interact antagonistically, and that the activity of PSI has a key role in the stress response</style></abstract></record></records></xml>