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Effects of drawdowns and dessication on tubers of hydrilla, an exotic aquatic weed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert D. Doyle  and
R. Michael Smart
R. Michael Smart
Affiliation:
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility, P.O. Box 446, Lewisville, TX 75056
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Abstract

Subterranean turions (tubers) of hydrilla lose viability when desiccated. Experimental data showed that freshly collected tubers had a moisture content between 50 and 60% and more than 90% viability. When desiccated, there was an approximate 2% increase in tuber mortality with each percent decline in moisture content. However under field conditions, the tuber bank within the exposed sediments of a northern Texas reservoir showed no decline in number or tuber viability throughout a 12-mo continuous drawdown. Apparently, the buried tubers were never subject to sufficient dessication to damage them. Finally, an experimental pond with an extensive hydrilla tuber bank was manipulated through six flood/drawdown cycles to determine the effects of short-term drawdowns on tuber survival and quiescence. Initially, the pond had a tuber bank of about 676 and 305 tubers m−2 in the shallow and deep zones, respectively. Although the tuber number was reduced to fewer than 15 to 30 tubers m−2 by these repetitive drawdowns, hydrilla tubers were not eradicated from the pond.

Keywords

Hydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata (L.F.) Royle HYLLIAquatic weedssubmersed plantsphysical controldewateringdrawdownHYLLI
Type
Research Article
Information
Weed Science , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 135 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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