PMID- 19136142 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090507 LR - 20181201 IS - 0048-9697 (Print) IS - 0048-9697 (Linking) VI - 407 IP - 5 DP - 2009 Feb 15 TI - Structural and physiological responses to ozone in Manna ash (Fraxinus ornus L.) leaves of seedlings and mature trees under controlled and ambient conditions. PG - 1631-43 LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.061 [doi] AB - Leaf-level microscopical symptom structure and physiological responses were investigated in seedlings experimentally exposed to ozone (O3) in indoor chambers (150 ppb, 8 h d(-1)/7 weeks), and field trees of Manna ash (Fraxinus ornus) exposed to ambient O3 (max 93 ppb/one growing season). Ozone-induced leaf injury, including leaf reddening and stippling, was observed in both seedlings and mature trees, but the morphology of injury in the stipples differed, being hypersensitive-like (HR-like) in the chamber seedlings and accelerated cell senescence (ACS) in the field trees. In both exposure conditions, the main structural impact of O3 was on the mesophyll and especially the upper assimilating cell layers. The main physiological impact was on carbon assimilation and on stomatal sluggishness. These effects were not due to stomatal structural injury and were more severe in juvenile compared to mature trees because of environmental (water availability, light) and constitutional (gas exchange capacity) factors and differences in the cell physiology processes (HR-like vs. ACS) triggered by ozone stress. Given the plasticity of plant responses to ozone stress, dose/response relationships for tree seedlings in the indoor chambers cannot be extrapolated to mature trees unless ambient conditions are closely simulated. FAU - Paoletti, Elena AU - Paoletti E AD - Institute Plant Protection, National Council of Research, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy. e.paoletti@ipp.cnr.it FAU - Contran, Nicla AU - Contran N FAU - Bernasconi, Petra AU - Bernasconi P FAU - Gunthardt-Goerg, Madeleine S AU - Gunthardt-Goerg MS FAU - Vollenweider, Pierre AU - Vollenweider P LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20090110 PL - Netherlands TA - Sci Total Environ JT - The Science of the total environment JID - 0330500 RN - 0 (Air Pollutants) RN - 1406-65-1 (Chlorophyll) RN - 66H7ZZK23N (Ozone) RN - YF5Q9EJC8Y (Chlorophyll A) SB - IM EIN - Sci Total Environ. 2010 Mar 15;408(8):2013 CRI - Sci Total Environ. 2010 Mar 15;408(8):2014-24. PMID: 20238440 MH - Air Pollutants/*toxicity MH - Chlorophyll/analysis/metabolism MH - Chlorophyll A MH - Fraxinus/*drug effects/metabolism/*physiology/ultrastructure MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence MH - Ozone/*toxicity MH - Photosynthesis/drug effects MH - Plant Leaves/drug effects/metabolism/physiology/ultrastructure MH - Plant Stomata/drug effects/metabolism/physiology/ultrastructure MH - Random Allocation MH - Trees/drug effects/physiology EDAT- 2009/01/13 09:00 MHDA- 2009/05/08 09:00 CRDT- 2009/01/13 09:00 PHST- 2008/09/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2008/11/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2008/11/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2009/01/13 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/13 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/05/08 09:00 [medline] AID - S0048-9697(08)01217-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.061 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Total Environ. 2009 Feb 15;407(5):1631-43. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.061. Epub 2009 Jan 10.