Psidium guajava 'Paluma' (the guava plant) as a new bio-indicator of ozone in the tropics
2007
Furlan, C.M. | Moraes, R.M. | Bulbovas, P. | Domingos, M. | Salatino, A. | Sanz, M.J.
Psidium guajava 'Paluma' saplings were exposed to carbon filtered air (CF), ambient non-filtered air (NF), and ambient non-filtered air + 40 ppb ozone (NF + O3) 8 h per day during two months. The AOT40 values at the end of the experiment were 48, 910 and 12 895 ppb h-1, respectively for the three treatments. After 5 days of exposure (AOT40 = 1497 ppb h-1), interveinal red stippling appeared in plants in the NF + O3 chamber. In the NF chamber, symptoms were observed only after 40 days of exposure (AOT40 = 880 ppb h-1). After 60 days, injured leaves per plant corresponded to 86% in NF + O3 and 25% in the NF treatment, and the average leaf area injured was 45% in NF + O3 and 5% in the NF treatment. The extent of leaf area injured (leaf injury index) was explained mainly by the accumulated exposure of ozone (r2 = 0.91; p < 0.05). Psidium guajava 'Paluma', a tropical species widely used in Brazilian food industry, is a potential sensitive bio-indicator of ozone.
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