Environmental and Genetic Effects on Leaf Traits in Tobacco

Abstract

Abstract:

Leaf traits can indicate a plants′ function and response to the environment. Leaf functional traits are affected by both genes and the environment. We examined these effects on leaf traits in a Tobacco variety (Tabacum ‘K326’) planted at 11 different sites, and also on 12 different tobacco cultivars grown at one site. Our results showed that genetic variation had a larger impact on stomatal density and leaf thickness than stomatal length and vein density, while the environment had a greater effect on minor vein density and leaf thickness than stomatal length and stomatal density. At one site where temperature was high, Tabacum‘K326’ exhibited its highest minor leaf vein density.

Key words: Leaf structural traits, Temperature, Gene, Responses, Tobacco

CLC Number:

Q 944
Q 948

HU Jing, YANG Qiu-Yun, YAN Ning, HU Hong. Environmental and Genetic Effects on Leaf Traits in Tobacco[J]. Plant Diversity, 2014, 36(01): 70-76.

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