Heterogeneity of Stomatal Pore Area Is Suppressed by Ambient Aerosol in the Homobaric Species, Vicia faba

Frontiers in Plant Science
David A GrantzJuergen Burkhardt

Abstract

Stomatal pore area is heterogeneous across leaf surfaces. This has been considered as "patchy stomatal conductance," and may have substantial implications for photosynthetic efficiency. Aerosols have always been important elements of plant environments, but their effects on stomatal control of plant water relations, and stomatal heterogeneity specifically, have not been considered. Here we evaluate the spatial coordination of pore area in the glabrous and homobaric leaves of Vicia faba grown under two aerosol treatments and measured at four levels of VPD. We construct a large dataset (n > 88,000 discrete comparisons) of paired pore areas and distances between the pores. Plants were grown in ambient urban air and in filtered air (FA) to determine the effect of ambient aerosol on stomatal properties. Pore area exhibited spatial organization, as well as considerable variability among closely co-located pores. The difference between pore areas was positively correlated with the distance between the pores, in both aerosol treatments and at all VPDs. However, aerosol deposition reduced both the magnitude of variability between pores and the rate at which this variability increased with pore separation distance. These data support pre...Continue Reading

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