Temperature, Duration in Simulated Shipping, and Thermal Acclimatization on the Development of Chilling Injury and Subsequent Flowering of Phalaenopsis
Temperature, Duration in Simulated Shipping, and Thermal Acclimatization on the Development of Chilling Injury and Subsequent Flowering of Phalaenopsis
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温度、模拟运输持续时间和热驯化对蝴蝶兰冷害发生和随后开花的影响
DOI:
10.21273/jashs.132.2.202
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2007
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Yin
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Yin
Bare-root Phalaenopsis Blume orchids are frequently shipped by air freight intercontinentally. It was not known how temperature and duration in shipping affect their subsequent performance during greenhouse production. On 15 Sept., container-grown plants of vegetatively propagated Phalaenopsis (Atien Kaala Group) 'TSC 22' were removed from pots and individually weighed immediately. These bare-root plants were packed in cartons with shredded newspaper and placed in growth chambers at 15, 20, 25, or 30 8C in darkness. After 4, 7, and 14 days, one-third of the plants were removed from each temperature treatment, weighed, planted in pots, and then placed in a greenhouse. Weight loss increased with increasing air temperature and duration in storage. Chilling injury (CI) was more severe at 15 8C than 20 8C storage temperature and was progressively more severe as storage duration increased from 4 to 14 days. Plants had no sign of CI at 25 8 Co r 308C regardless of storage duration. Leaf loss was most severe on plants stored at 15 8C for 7 days (three leaves) or 14 days (five leaves) or at 30 8C for 14 days (three leaves). Storing plants 14 days or less between 15 8C and 25 8C did not affect the time of spiking (emergence of the flowering shoot), but at 30 8C, spiking was delayed by 5 to 8 days regardless of the duration. Storage resulted in reduced flower count, but not flower size, regardless of temperature and duration. In a second experiment, potted Phalaenopsis plants of the same clone were thermal-acclimatized in growth chambers in mid-September for 10 days at 25 8C followed by another 10 days at 20 8C before being stored in pots or bare-root at 15 8C, 20 8C, 25 8C, or 30 8C for 10 days. Thermal acclimatizing at 25 8 Ca nd 208C reduced the severity of CI and leaf loss after being stored for 10 days at 15 8C either bare-root or in pots, but did not reduce leaf loss resulting from heat at 30 8C. Repotting or storing bare-root plants did not affect spiking or flowering date under otherwise similar conditions. Nondisturbed plants in pots stored at temperatures between 20 8C and 30 8C for 10 d had higher flower count as compared with bare-root plants that were similarly stored. Spiking of nonacclimatized, bare-root plants was delayed after 10 days at either storage temperature, whereas flowering was delayed by 15 8C and 30 8C only. Bare-root Phalaenopsis orchids should be shipped near 25 8C during the warm period of the year and between 25 8C and 15 8C in the late fall through early spring to avoid CI or heat stress.