Eco-physiological Variability and Species Distribution of Grasses in Kheda and Ahmedabad Districts, Gujarat, India.
2025
Vijayanshi, Nupur | Nakar, Rupesh
Study of ecophysiology represents structure and function of grasses in particular ecological area. As grasses are under family poaceae which is one of the major family of plants worldwide, work on ecophysiology has deep insights. Ecological parameters, including the Important Value Index (IVI), density, frequency, and abundance, along with physiological traits such as Relative Water Content (RWC),Specific Leaf Area (SLA), and proline content, were studied across two seasons from Kheda and Ahmedabad districts in the Central Gujarat region. Highest proline content was recorded in Cynodon dactylon indicating high resilience of thespecies with respective average values of 0.33 and 1.23 mg g-1 in Ahmedabad and Kheda district respectively and almost, similar kind of results were seen for IVI as it also expressed highest IVI too. Determination of soil parameters in the formof pH, EC, TDS and TSS gave useful correlations with eco- physiological characteristics of the area. pH and Biomass showed positive association in both areas. Additionally, RWC has very strong positive correlations with proline(0.98**), TDS (0.90**), and EC (0.96**) indicated their close interaction in management of adapting mechanism in both these districts. Current work can be of high use in developing research strategies in identification of grasses along with their adaptation traits for plant responses to their environmental challenges.
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