Use of ethylenediurea to detect effects of ambient ozone on biomass production by clover cultivars
- Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
Ozone-tolerant (NCR) and ozone-sensitive (NCS) clonal plants of ladino white clover (Trifolium repens) were grown in 15-liter pots filled with a peat/perlite artificial growing medium during the 1994 and 1995 growing seasons. All plants were exposed to ambient concentrations of ozone. Beginning the first day plants were in the field, and continuing at 7-day intervals until final harvests, each plant was sprayed with 300 ppm ethylenediurea (EDU). Foliar biomass harvests were made at 28-day intervals and dry weights of leaves/stems determined. Biomass weights for NCR were unaffected by EDU. EDU ameliorated the effects of ambient ozone on NCR plants, allowing detection of the effects of ozone on an ozone-sensitive clone of white clover.
- OSTI ID:
- 442880
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961149-; TRN: IM9712%%305
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: partnerships for the environment - science, education, and policy, Washington, DC (United States), 17-21 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of SETAC 17. annual meeting -- Abstract book. Partnerships for the environment: Science, education, and policy; PB: 378 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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