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@ARTICLE{Behn:15911,
author = {Behn, H. and Walter, A. and Schurr, U. and Noga, G. and
Ulbrich, A.},
title = {{D}evelopment-dependent {UV}-{B} {R}esponses in {R}ed {O}ak
{L}eaf {L}ettuce ({L}actuca sativa{L}.): {P}hysiological
{M}echanisms and {S}ignificance for {H}ardening},
journal = {European Journal of Horticultural Science},
volume = {76},
reportid = {PreJuSER-15911},
pages = {33 - 40},
year = {2011},
note = {The authors thank the technical staff of Marhof
Experimental Station for their assistance during the
experiment, particularly Britta Albinus for intense support
at cultivation and sampling and Gesa Dickhof for lab works.
Transmission data of the covering materials were kindly
provided by Centrosolar Glas GmbH $\&$ Co. KG, Furth,
Germany. The work was founded by grants of the
Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (project
0330724C).},
abstract = {Plants protect themselves against potentially harmful UV-B
radiation mainly by epidermal accumulation of UV-B shielding
phenolic compounds and repair of cellular damage. The
capacity and necessity for these protection mechanisms alter
with the stage of plant and leaf development, which might be
crucial for horticultural hardening techniques aiming at a
UV-B pre-acclimation of greenhouse grown seedlings before
transplantation to the field. In order to examine the
development-dependence of UV-B responses and to estimate the
efficiency of different hardening strategies, lettuce
(Lactuca sativa L., var. crispa L. `Bughatti') was raised in
greenhouses covered with a UV-B transmitting and a UV-B
excluding covering material and transferred from one
treatment to the other at the age of 20 days. Plant fresh
mass and flavonoid content were frequently determined.
Distribution of flavonoids within the plants was assessed by
extraction of different leaf age classes. Continuous
exposure to near ambient UV-B induced a strong enhancement
in cyanidin and quercetin content and a severe growth
reduction, whereas late UV-B treatment merely led to a
slight enhancement of quercetin in the absence of any growth
response. At the leaf level, continuous UV-B exposure caused
a comparable quercetin induction at all three stages of leaf
development, whereas late treatment caused a much stronger
response in young compared to intermediate and old leaves.
These findings indicate that UV-B effects on growth and
flavonoid content and pattern of lettuce plants are highly
dependent on the leaf and plant developmental stage. We
conclude that UV-B exposure throughout seedling development
is a more efficient hardening strategy than late short-term
exposure.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IBG-2},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Horticulture},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000296172300001},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/15911},
}