Abstract:

During lifting and planting, desiccation, harsh temperatures, root injury and other detrimental factors, would impede seedlings performance. All of these factors were harmful to seedlings, and were recognized as the transplanting stress. The recent advances in study of the effects of these factors were reviewed in this paper. More attention was paid on the performances of stock, and physiological indexes such as photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence parameter, activity of different enzymes, were also described. Finally, the important and key aspects for future research are proposed.

Key words: seedling, transplant, desiccation, transplanting stress, mechanical damage