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The Assessment and the Within-Plant Variation of the Morpho-Physiological Traits and VOCs Profile in Endemic and Rare Salvia ceratophylloides Ard. (Lamiaceae)

Rosa Vescio
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Maria Rosa Abenavoli
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Fabrizio Araniti
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Adriano Sofo
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Valentina Lucia Astrid Laface
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Giovanni Spampinato
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Agostino Sorgonà
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Version 1 : Received: 13 February 2021 / Approved: 17 February 2021 / Online: 17 February 2021 (10:31:07 CET)

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Vescio, R.; Abenavoli, M.R.; Araniti, F.; Musarella, C.M.; Sofo, A.; Laface, V.L.A.; Spampinato, G.; Sorgonà, A. The Assessment and the Within-Plant Variation of the Morpho-Physiological Traits and VOCs Profile in Endemic and Rare Salvia ceratophylloides Ard. (Lamiaceae). Plants 2021, 10, 474. Vescio, R.; Abenavoli, M.R.; Araniti, F.; Musarella, C.M.; Sofo, A.; Laface, V.L.A.; Spampinato, G.; Sorgonà, A. The Assessment and the Within-Plant Variation of the Morpho-Physiological Traits and VOCs Profile in Endemic and Rare Salvia ceratophylloides Ard. (Lamiaceae). Plants 2021, 10, 474.

Abstract

Salvia ceratophylloides (Ard.) is an endemic, rare, threatened plant species recently rediscovered in very few individuals in two different sites of South Italy. The study of within-plant variation more than among-plant one is fundamental to understand the plant adaptation to the local conditions, especially in rare species, and consequently to preserve plant biodiversity. Here, we reported the variation of the morpho-ecophysiological and metabolic traits between the sessile and petiolate leaf of S. ceratophylloides plants in two different sites for understanding the adaptation strategies for surviving in these habitats. The S. ceratophylloides individuals exhibited different net photosynthetic rate, maximum quantum yield, light intensity for the saturation of the photosynthetic machinery, stomatal conductance, transpiration rate, leaf area, fractal dimension and some VOCs between the different leaf types. This within-plant morpho-physiological and metabolic variation was depended on the site. These results provide empirical evidence of sharply within-plant variation of the morpho-physiological traits and VOCs profiles in S. ceratophylloides which could be because of adaptation to the local conditions.

Keywords

Gas exchanges; LMA; rare species; Salvia ceratophylloides Ard.; VOC; within-plant plasticity

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Anatomy and Physiology

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