Plant morphofunctional response to environmental changes WITHin active fault zones of the Kurai Ridge (gORNY Altai)
© 2020 I.G. Boyarskikh1, 2 *, A.R. Agatova3, 4, A.I. Syso2, A.I. Klyuchevskaya1
1
Central
Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of
Sciences,
Novosibirsk, Russia
2 Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
3
Sobolev
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian
Academy
of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
4 Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia
*e-mail: irina_2302@mail.ru
Abstract. The multidisciplinary geological, geophysical, geochemical and botanical studies in the Kuraika River Valley (the Kurai Ridge, Russian (Gorny) Altai) showed drastic changes in the growth environment of the honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L.) within the junction zone of the regional Kubadrinsky and local active faults. Increased variability of concentration of radionuclides, major- and trace elements in soil; increased mercury content in soil and surface air, as well as increased γ-irradiation exposure rate were detected under the high gradient magnetic field. Depending on specific combinations of geoenvironmental factors, the micropopulations of the blue honeysuckle produced fruits of increased or decreased size and seed number. The observed 3-fold higher accumulation of biologically active phenols in fruits, accompanied by the respective decreased accumulation in leaves, and narrower ratios of certain polyphenol classes in leaves and fruits are considered to be the plant response to the stressing impact of environmental factors, resulting from the active tectonic processes in the studied area of the Russian Altai.
Keywords: active tectonic fault zones, geomagnetic anomaly, radionuclide, mercury, radon, Lonicera caerulea, biological response, polyfenols, Altai.
About the authors
BOYARSKIKH Irina Georgievna – Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 630090, Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya st., 101; Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 630099, Novosibirsk, Akademika Lavrentieva st., 8/2. E-mail: irina_2302@mail.ru
AGATOVA Anna Raulevna – Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 630090, Novosibirsk, Akademika Koptyuga av., 3/1; Russia, 620002, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin. Russia, 620002, Yekaterinburg, Mira st., 19. E-mail: rnk@igm.nsc.ru
SYSO Alexander Ivanovich
–
Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Siberian Branch of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 630099,
Novosibirsk, Akademika Lavrentieva st., 8/2.
E-mail: syso@mail.ru
KLYUCHEVSKAYA Alena Igorevna – Central Siberian Botanical Garden, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, 630090, Novosibirsk, Zolotodolinskaya st., 101. E-mail: kulikovaai@ngs.ru
Cite this article as: Boyarskikh I.G., Agatova A.R., Syso A.I., Klyuchevskaya A.I. Plant morphofunctional response to environmental changes within active fault zones of the Kurai Ridge (Gorny Altai), Geofizicheskie Protsessy i Biosfera (Geophysical Processes and Biosphere), 2020, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 19–44 (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.21455/gpb2020.2-2
English version: Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, 2020, vol. 56, iss. 8. ISSN: 0001-4338 (Print), 1555-628X (Online). https://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/11485