Effects of Light Intensity and Fertilization on the Growth, Phothosynthetic Characteristic, Main Med

Author :LiLei
Tutor:CaiChuanTao
School :Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
CLC :S567.19
TYPE :Masters thesis
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Year:2009
Abstract:
Rauvolfia vomitoria is an important material plant, which has long been used to extract the active
componentreserpine for hypotensive drug. For studying different cultivation conditions to the
growth, photosymthesis, biomass accumulation and Reserpine production of Rauvolfia vomitoria, the
effects of three factors, including three light intensity levels of 15%,40% and 70% of natrual light
intensity, fertilizing amount (40g,60g and 80g per individual plant) and fertilizer proportion of N and
K (1:2,1:1, 2:1), have been studied.Among the three factors, light intensity was the most important
one, fertilizer amount was the second important one to Rauvolfia vomitoria. And the effects of the
interactions among these three factors were significant (p<0.05).The height, base diameter, the
relative growth rate of height and base diameter, Pn and biomass of Rauvolfia vomitoria decreased
along with the decrease of light intensity, owing to the increase of shading. Meeanwhile, water use
efficiency(WUE), chlorophyll content(Chl), chlorophyll a/chlorophyll b(Chla/Chlb) and the ratio of
root to stem(R/S) increased.Fertilizer amount had a very significance to the growth of height, base
diameter photosynthetic physiology parameters of Pn and WUE, part biomass and the biomass
allocation. The effects of the fertilizer amount were different under different light intensities. Under
the condition of meddle and lower light intensity, the height, base diameter, Pn and the whole plant
biomass under light level fertilizer amount was higher than that under meddle level fertilizer amount,
which both were higher than that under heavy level one. However, it showed that the values of the
height, base diameter, Pn and the whole plant biomass were higher under middle level of fertilizer
amount than those under light level of fertilizer amount, while the values were the lowest under the
heavy level of fertilizer amount.We can conclude that the combination treatment of higher light
intensity and meddle level of fertilization was the optimal treatment of the 27 treatments setted by us.
When under the same potassium fertilizer, the reserpine content was the biggist under the treatment of
middle level of light intensity and heavy nitrogen level, next was the treatment of higher light intensity
and miderate nitrogen level. However, the reserpine yield per plant under higher light was higher than
that under middle level and lower light, and in the higher light, the reserpine yield per plant was the
highest under miderate nitrogen.