Effect of Nitrate Concentration on the Root: Shoot Ratio in Dactylis glomerata L. and on the Kinetics of Growth in the Vegetative Phase |
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Authors: | CALOIN M; KHODRE A EL; ATRY M |
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Institution: | Laboratoire d'Ecologie Végétale, Institut de Botanique 28, rue Goethe, 67000 Strasbourg, France |
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Abstract: | The vegetative growth of Dactylis glomerata L. in sand was studiedunder controlled light, temperature, and nutritional conditions.Plants were daily supplied with three nutrient solutions ofdifferent nitrate concentrations (102, 103 and2 x 104 mol I1). For each concentration, growthobeyed an exponential law between the fourth and seventh weeksafter sowing. The time constant of the exponential was the samefor the shoot as for the root, and showed no significant variationwith nitrate concentration. The kinetic results and the strong dependence of the root: shootratio on nitrate concentration are discussed on the basis ofThornley's model. Hypothesizing that the molecular mechanismsof nitrate absorption are independent of the nitrate concentrationof the nutrient solution, we derived a relationship betweenthe root: shoot ratio and nitrate concentration. This relationshipwas found to be compatible with the experimental results. Dactylis glomerata L., vegetative phase, kinetics of growth, root: shoot equilibrium, nitrate absorption |
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