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Feeding patterns of post-larval and juvenile notothenioids in the southern Weddell Sea (Antarctica) 总被引:5,自引:5,他引:0
Summary The food of 163 juvenile specimens of 13 species of notothenioid fishes collected in the southern Weddell Sea (Antarctica) was analyzed. Investigated fish size range was 3–13 cm SL. Principal food items were calanoid copepods Metridia gerlachei, Calanoides acutus, and Calanus propinquus; all developmental stages of Euphausia crystallorophias, and post-larval nototheniid fish Pleuragramma antarcticum. Diet of juvenile channichthyids is limited to few species of euphausiids and fish in the size > 10 mm, but does not include significant numbers of copepods. Pelagic stages of nototheniids feed on copepods and/or larval euphausiids smaller than 10 mm. At similar size, nototheniids and bathydraconids take smaller prey items than channichthyids. 相似文献
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Nuclei were isolated from cotyledons of a range of accessionsfrom 14 species of Glycine. These were stained with ethidiumbromide and the relative fluorescence for each genotype wasmeasured by flow cytometry. The DNA content was estimated bycomparison of relative fluorescence with that from nuclei fromseedling leaves of Allium cepa, whose DNA content has been calculatedpreviously by chemical assay. The 4C amounts for diploid Glycineranged from 3.80 to 6.59 pg. Two groups of diploid species appearedfrom the analysis. The first consisted of species with amountsranging from 3.80 to 5.16 pg and included G. canescens (AA),G. argyrea (A1 A1), G. clandestina (A2A2), G. microphylla(BB),G. latifolia (B1B1), G. tabacina 2n=40 (B2B2), G. tomentella2n=38 (EE) and 2n=40 (DD), G. max and G. soja (GG), G. arenariaand G. latrobeana. A second group had higher DNA contents rangingfrom 5.27 to 6.59 pg, and consisted of G. curvata, G. cyrtoloba(CC), and G. falcata (FF). The polyploid species, G. tabacina2n=80 (AABB, BBB1B1), G. tomentella 2n=78 and 2n=80 (AAEE andDDEE, respectively) contained amounts approximating to the sumsof the respective parental diploid species thought to have givenrise to these allotetraploids. Intraspecific variation was detectedin the DNA content of G. canescens. Within the overall distributionof DNA amounts found in A genome species, each genome containeda range of DNA contents specific to that species. This phenomenonwas also detected amongst B genome species. 相似文献
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Carbon dioxide flux from coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important source of CO2 in forests with moderate to large amounts of CWD. A process-based understanding of environmental controls on CWD CO2 flux (RCWD) is needed to accurately model carbon exchange between forests and the atmosphere. The objectives of this study were to: (1) use a laboratory incubation factorial experiment to quantify the effect of temperature (TCWD), water content (WC), decay status, and their interactions on RCWD for black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP] CWD; (2) measure and model spatial and temporal dynamics in TCWD for a boreal black spruce fire chronosequence; and (3) validate the RCWD model with field measurements, and quantify potential errors in estimating annual RCWD from this model on various time steps. The RCWD was positively correlated to TCWD (R2=0.37, P<0.001) and WC (R2=0.18, P<0.001), and an empirical RCWD polynomial model that included TCWD and WC interactions explained 74% of the observed variation of RCWD. The RCWD estimates from the RCWD model excellently matched the field measurements. Decay status of CWD significantly (P<0.001) affected RCWD. The temperature coefficient (Q10) averaged 2.5, but varied by 141% across the 5-42°C temperature range, illustrating the potential shortcomings of using a constant Q10. The CWD temperature was positively correlated to air temperature (R2=0.79, P<0.001), with a hysteresis effect that was correlated to CWD decay status and stand leaf area index . Ignoring this temperature hysteresis introduced errors of -1% to +32% in annual RCWD estimates. Increasing TCWD modeling time step from hourly to daily or monthly introduced a 5-11% underestimate in annual RCWD. The annual RCWD values in this study were more than two-fold greater than those in a previous study, illustrating the need to incorporate spatial and temporal responses of RCWD to temperature and water content into models for long-term RCWD estimation in boreal forest ecosystems. 相似文献
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Noviski N.; Brewer J. P.; Skornik W. A.; Galli S. J.; Drazen J. M.; Martin T. R. 《Journal of applied physiology》1999,86(1):202-210
Exposure to ambient ozone(O3) is associated withincreased exacerbations of asthma. We sought to determine whether mastcell degranulation is induced by in vivo exposure toO3 in mice and whether mast cellsplay an essential role in the development of pulmonarypathophysiological alterations induced byO3. For this we exposed mastcell-deficientWBB6F1-kitW/kitW-v(kitW/kitW-v)mice and the congenic normalWBB6F1 (+/+) mice to air or to 1 or 3 parts/million O3 for 4 h andstudied them at different intervals from 4 to 72 h later. We foundevidence of O3-induced cutaneous,as well as bronchial, mast cell degranulation. Polymorphonuclear cellinflux into the pulmonary parenchyma was observed after exposure to 1 part/milllion O3 only in mice thatpossessed mast cells. Airway hyperresponsiveness to intravenousmethacholine measured in vivo under pentobarbital anesthesia wasobserved in bothkitW/kitW-vand +/+ mice after exposure to O3.Thus, although mast cells are activated in vivo byO3 and participate inO3-induced polymorphonuclear cellinfiltration into the pulmonary parenchyma, they do not participate detectably in the development ofO3-induced airwayhyperresponsiveness in mice. 相似文献
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The mixing behaviour of the liquid phase in concentric-tube airlift bioreactors of different scale (RIMP: VL=0.070 m3; RIS-1: VL=2.50 m3; RIS-2: VL=5.20 m3) in terms of mixing time was investigated. This mixing parameter was determined from the output curves to an initial Dirac pulse, using the classical tracer response technique, and analyzed in relation to process and geometrical parameters, such as: gas superficial velocity, xSGR; top clearance, hS; bottom clearance, hB, and ratio of the resistances at downcomer entrance, Ad/AR. A correlation between the mixing time and the specified operating and geometrical parameters was developed, which was particularized for two flow regimes: bubbly and transition (xSGRА.08 m/s) and churn turbulent flow (xSGR> 0.08 m/s) respectively. The correlation was applied in bioreactors of different scale with a maximum error of ᆲ%. 相似文献
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Jean-Fran?ois David Nathalie Malet Marie-Madeleine Co?teaux Jacques Roy 《Oecologia》2001,127(3):343-349
The consumption and assimilation rates of the woodlouse Armadillidium vulgare were measured on leaf litters from five herb species grown and naturally senesced at 350 and 700 µl l-1 CO2. Each type of litter was tested separately after 12, 30 and 45 days of decomposition at 18°C. The effects of elevated CO2 differed depending on the plant species. In Medicago minima (Fabaceae), the CO2 treatment had no significant effect on consumption and assimilation. In Tyrimnus leucographus (Asteraceae), the CO2 treatment had no significant effect on consumption, but the elevated CO2 litter was assimilated at a lower rate than the ambient CO2 litter after 30 days of decomposition. In the three other species, Galactites tomentosa (Asteraceae), Trifolium angustifolium (Fabaceae) and Lolium rigidum (Poaceae), the elevated CO2 litter was consumed and/or assimilated at a higher rate than the ambient CO2 litter. Examination of the nitrogen contents in these three species of litter did not support the hypothesis of compensatory feeding, i.e. an increase in woodlouse consumption to compensate for low nitrogen content of the food. Rather, the results suggest that in herbs that were unpalatable at the start of the experiment (Galactites, Trifolium and Lolium), more of the the litter produced at 700 µl l-1 CO2 was consumed than of that produced at 350 µl l-1 because inhibitory factors were eliminated faster during decomposition. 相似文献
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The vertical distribution of the cyanobacterium Planktothrir(Oscillazoria) rubescens in Lake Zrich was investigated fromMarch 1993 to June 1995 by collecting filaments on filters andmeasuring them by epifluorescence microscopy and computer imageanalysis. The initial population, which began to stratify inApril, decreased by up to 99% by June. During the summer, thepopulation peaked at depths of 815 m; it reached a maximumareal filament-volume concentration of -60 cm 3 of lakesurface in early September and was then entrained in the deepeningsurface layer. It became mixed progressively deeper, to thelake bottom in the cold winter of 199394, but less completelyin the milder winter of 199495. Most of the filamentsremained viable during the winter. At the end of the mild winterof 19945, 70% of filaments in the water column retainedbuoyancy, but after the cold winter of 19967 only 22%were buoyant. Few remained buoyant below 80 m, where the hydrostaticpressure caused gas vesicle collapse. The proportion that remainbuoyant decreases with the depth and duration of winter mixing,and increases with the critical collapse pressure (Pc) of thegas vesicles, which provide buoyancy. Strains of P.rubescensisolated from Lake Zrich differed in mean (Pc) of their gasvesicles, from 0.9 to 1.1 MPa, the highest values in freshwatercyanobacteria. Allowing for a turgor pressure of 0.2 MPa. thesestrains would remain buoyant at depths down to 70 and 90 m,respectively. Natural selection for gas vesicles of high (Pc)will operate by increasing the proportion of filaments thatremain buoyant in the upper parts of the water column aftercirculation to various depths during the winter because onlybuoyant filaments will form the inoculum for the following season. 相似文献
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Soil microbial community and bacterial functional diversity at Machu Picchu, King George Island, Antarctica 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential contribution of the soil microbial community in the vicinity of two plant covers, Sanionia uncinata and Deschampsia antarctica, at Machu Picchu Station, King George Island, Antarctica. Soil samples were collected at the study site during the southern (pole) summer period from 0-5 cm and 5-10 cm depths, for chemical and biological analyses. Soil microbial biomass reached a maximal value of 144 µg g-1 in soil samples taken from under the S. uncinata upper layer plant. qCO2 ranged from 167 to 239 µg CO2.mgCmic.h-1 at the 0-5 and 5-10 cm depths, respectively. CO2 evolution showed values of 54.3 mg.m-2 h-1 beneath plant cover and 55.9 mg.m-2 h-1 in the open space. CO2 evolved by substrate induced respiration in the soil samples taken under the plant cover in the summer period, oscillated between 0.25 and 4.78 µg CO2 g-1 h-1. The data obtained from this short study may provide evidence that both activity and the composition and substrate utilization of the microbial community appear to change substantially across the moisture level and sample location. 相似文献
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In-situ estimates of fast-ice algal productivity at Cape Evans, McMurdo Sound, in 1999 were lower than at the same site in previous years. Under-ice irradiance was between 0 and 8 µmol photons m-2 s-1; the ice was between 1.9 and 2.0 m thick and the algal biomass averaged 150 mg chl a m-2, although values as high as 378 mg chl a m-2 were recorded. Production on 11 and 12 November was between 0.053 and 1.474 mg C m-2 h-1. When the data from 11 November were fitted to a hyperbolic tangent function, a multilinear regression gave estimates for Pmax of 0.571 nmol O2 cm-2 s-1, an ! of 0.167 nmol O2 cm-2 s-1 µmol-1 photons m-2 s-1 and an Ek of 3.419 µmol photons m-2 s-1. A Pmax of 2.674 nmol O2 cm-2 s-1, an ! of 0.275 nmol O2 cm-2 s-1 µmol-1 photons m-2 s-1, r of 0.305 nmol O2 cm-2 s-1 and an Ek of 9.724 µmol-1 photons m-2 s-1 were estimated from the 12 November data. The sea-ice algal community was principally comprised of Nitzschia stellata, Entomoneis kjellmanii and Berkeleya adeliensis. Other taxa present included N. lecointei, Fragilariopsis spp., Navicula glaciei, Pleurosigma spp. and Amphora spp. Variations in the method for estimating the thickness of the diffusive boundary layer were not found to significantly affect the measurements of oxygen flux. However, the inability to accurately measure fine-scale variations in biomass is thought to contribute to the scatter of the P versus E data. 相似文献
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Planktonic primary production in the German Wadden Sea 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
By combining weekly data of irradiance, attenuation and chlorophylla concentrations with photosynthesis (P) versus light intensity(E) curve characteristics, the annual cycle of planktonic primaryproduction in the estuarine part of the Northfrisian WaddenSea was computed for a 2 year period. Daily water column particulategross production ranged from 5 to 2200 mg C m2 day1and showed a seasonal pattern similar to chlorophyll a. Budgetcalculation yielded annual gross particulate primary productionsof 124 and 176 g C m2 year1 in 1995 and 1996,respectively. Annual amounts of phytoplankton respiration, calculatedaccording to a two-compartment model of Langdon [in Li,W.K.W.and Maestrini,S.Y. (eds), Measurement of Primary Productionfrom the Molecular to the Global Scale. International Councilfor the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, 1993, pp. 2036],and dissolved production in 1996, were both in the range of2439 g C m2 year1. Annual total net productionwas thus very similar to particulate gross production (127 and177 g C m2 year1 in 1995 and 1996, respectively).Phytoplankton growth was low or even negative in winter. Inspring and summer, production/biomass (Pr/B) ratios varied from0.2 up to 1.7. Phytoplankton growth during the growth seasonalways surpassed average flushing time in the area, thus underliningthe potential of local phytoplankton bloom development in thispart of the Wadden Sea. The chlorophyll-specific maximum photosyntheticrate (PBmax) ranged from 0.8 to 9.9 mg C mg1 Chl h1and was strongly correlated with water temperature (r2 = 0.67).By contrast, there was no clear seasonal cycle in B, which rangedfrom 0.007 to 0.039 mg C mg1 Chl h1 (µmolphotons m2 s1)1. Its variability was muchless than PBmax and independent of temperature. The magnitudeand part of the variability of PBmax and B are presumably causedby changes in species composition, as evidenced from the rangeof these parameters found among 10 predominant diatom speciesisolated from the Wadden Sea. The ratio of average light conditionsin the water column (Eav) to the light saturation parameterEk indicates that primary production in the Wadden Sea regionunder study is predominantly controlled by light limitationand that nutrient limitation was likely to occur for a few hoursper day only during 5 (dissolved inorganic nitrogen) to 10 (PO4,Si) weeks in the 2 year period investigated. 相似文献
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The capacity for C4 photosynthesis in Panicum milioides, a specieshaving reduced levels of photorespiration, was investigatedby examining the activity of certain key enzymes of the C4 pathwayand by pulse-chase experiments with 14CO2. The ATP$P1 dependentactivity of pyruvate,P1 dikinase in the species was extremelylow (0.140.18 µmol mg chlorophyll1 min1).Low activity of the enzyme was also found in Panicum decipiensand Panicum hians (related species with reduced photorespiration)and in Panicum laxum (a C3 species). The antibody to pyruvate,P1dikinase caused about 70% inhibition of the ATP$P1 dependentactivity of the enzyme in P. milioides. The activity of NAD-malicenzyme and NADP-malic enzyme in P. milioides was equally low(approximately 0.10.2 µmol mg chlorophyll1min1) and similar to the activity in P. decipiens, P.hians and P. laxum. Photosynthetic pulse-chase experiments underatmospheric conditions showed a typical C3-like pattern of carbonassimilation including the labelling of glycine and serine asexpected during photorespiration. During the pulse with 14CO2only about 1% of the labelled products appeared in malate and23% in aspartate. During a chase in atmospheric levelsof CO2 for up to 6 min there was a slight increase in labellingin the C4 acids. The amount of label in carbon 4 of aspartatedid not change during the chase, indicating little or no turnoverof the C4 acid via decarboxylation. The results indicate thatunder atmospheric conditions P. milioides assimilates carbondirectly through the C3 pathway. Photorespiration as indicatedby the CO2 compensation point may be repressed in the speciesby a more efficient recycling of photorespired CO2. (Received June 8, 1982; Accepted July 22, 1982) 相似文献
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Seed production and seedling recruitment were measured over 2 years under ambient (360 ppm) and elevated (475 ppm) atmospheric CO2 in a free air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) experiment, carried out in a sheep-grazed pasture on dry, sandy soil in New Zealand. In both years elevated CO2 led to more dispersed seeds of the grasses Anthoxanthum odoratum, Lolium perenne and Poa pratensis, the legumes Trifolium repens and T. subterraneum and the herbs Hypochaeris radicata and Leontodon saxatilis. The increased seed dispersal in A. odoratum, H. radicata, Leontodon saxatilis and T. repens reflected both more inflorescences per unit area and more seeds per inflorescence under elevated CO2. The increased seed dispersal in Lolium perenne, P. pratensis and T. subterraneum was due solely to more inflorescences per unit area. The number of seedlings that emerged and survived to at least 7 months of age was increased by elevated CO2 for H. radicata, Leontodon saxatilis, T. repens and T. subterraneum in both years and for A. odoratum and Lolium perenne in the first year. For species where increased seedling recruitment was noted, there was a significant positive correlation between seed production in summer and seedling emergence in the following autumn and winter, and sowing 200 extra seeds per species m-2 resulted in more seedlings compared to unsown controls. Elevated CO2 did not affect seedling survival in any species. There was no measurable effect of elevated CO2 on canopy and soil surface conditions or soil moisture at the time of seedling emergence. The results suggest the dominant effect of elevated CO2 on seedling recruitment in this pasture was an indirect one, reflecting effects on the number of seeds produced. The biomass of H. radicata, Leontodon saxatilis, T. repens and T. subterraneum in the above-ground vegetation was greater under elevated than ambient CO2. However, the size of individual seedlings and mature plants of these four species was unaffected by elevated CO2. The results indicate an important way elevated CO2 influenced plant species composition in this pasture was through changes in the pattern of seedling recruitment. 相似文献
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Relationship between Plant Weight and Growing Period for Vegetable Crops in the United Kingdom 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
GREENWOOD D. J.; CLEAVER T. J.; LOQUENS S. M. H.; NIENDORF K. B. 《Annals of botany》1977,41(5):987-997
A generalized equation is derived that relates total dry matterproduction to time from emergence for crops grown in the fieldwith adequate water and nutrients. It is: w+K1lnw+W0=K2t where w is the plant dry weight in t ha1, t is time indays after emergence, K2 and K1 are constants and W0 equals(w0+K1lnw0) where w0 is the value of w at the start ofthe growing period. The increases in the dry matter of 18 different types of vegetablecrop were measured at intervals during growth in the field.In every case the data fitted the equation very satisfactorilywith K1 set equal to 1 t ha1. The fitted values of K2were similar for many crops; those of W0 varied considerablybut were always similar to the values calculated from the individualseed weight and the plant population. Good fits were also obtainedwhen time in days was replaced with cumulative evaporation froman open water surface. It is concluded that the growth-time curves of many differentvegetable crops can be described by the same simple equationand that the variation between curves can be largely attributedto differences in seed weight and plant population. 相似文献
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At low nitrogen (N) supply, it is well known that rye has ahigher biomass production than wheat. This study investigateswhether these species differences can be explained by differencesin dry matter and nitrogen partitioning, specific leaf area,specific root length and net assimilation rate, which determineboth N acquisition and carbon assimilation during vegetativegrowth. Winter rye (Secale cereale L.), wheat (Triticum aestivumL.) and triticale (X Triticosecale) were grown in solution cultureat relative addition rates (RN) of nitrate-N supply rangingfrom 0.030.18 d-1and at non-limiting N supply under controlledconditions. The relative growth rate (RW) was closely equalto RNin the range 0.030.15 d-1. The maximalRW at non-limitingnitrate nutrition was approx. 0.18 d-1. The biomass allocationto the roots showed a considerable plasticity but did not differbetween species. There were no interspecific differences ineither net assimilation rate or specific leaf area. Higher accumulationof N in the plant, despite the same relative growth rate atnon-limiting N supplies, suggests that rye has a greater abilityto accumulate reserves of nitrogen. Rye had a higher specificroot length over a wide range of sub-optimal N rates than wheat,especially at extreme N deficiency (RN=0.030.06 d-1).Triticale had a similar specific root length as that of wheatbut had the ability to accumulate N to the same amount as ryeunder conditions of free N access. It is concluded that thebetter adaptation of rye to low N availability compared to wheatis related to higher specific root length in rye. Additionally,the greater ability to accumulate nitrogen under conditionsof free N access for rye and triticale compared to wheat maybe useful for subsequent N utilization during plant growth.In general, species differences are explained by growth componentsresponsible for nitrogen acquisition rather than carbon assimilation.Copyright 1999 Annals of Botany Company Growth analysis, nitrogen, nitrogen productivity, partitioning, specific root length, Secale cereale L.,Triticum aestivum L., X Triticosecale, winter rye, winter wheat, winter triticale. 相似文献
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Water availability and carbon isotope discrimination in conifers 总被引:22,自引:0,他引:22
The stable C isotope composition ('13C) of leaf and wood tissue has been used as an index of water availability at both the species and landscape level. However, the generality of this relationship across species has received little attention. We compiled literature data for a range of conifers and examined relationships among landscape and environmental variables (altitude, precipitation, evaporation) and '13C. A significant component of the variation in '13C was related to altitude (discrimination decreased with altitude in stemwood, 2.53 km-1 altitude, r2=0.49, and in foliage, 1.91 km-1, r2=0.42), as has been noted previously. The decrease in discrimination with altitude was such that the gradient in CO2 partial pressure into the leaf (Pa-Pi) and altitude were generally unrelated. The ratio of precipitation to evaporation (P/E) explained significant variation in Pa-Pi of stemwood (r2=0.45) and foliage (r2=0.27), but only at low (<0.8) P/E. At greater P/E there was little or no relationship, and other influences on '13C probably dominated the effect of water availability. We also examined the relationship between plant drought stress (O) and '13C within annual rings of stemwood from Pinus radiata and Pinus pinaster in south-western Australia. Differential thinning and fertiliser application produced large differences in the availability of water, nutrients and light to individual trees. At a density of 750 stems ha-1, O and '13C were less (more negative) than at 250 stems ha-1 indicating greater drought stress and less efficient water use, contrary to what was expected in light of the general relationship between discrimination and P/E. The greater '13C of trees from heavily thinned plots may well be related to an increased interception of radiation by individual trees and greater concentrations of nutrients in foliage - attributes that increase rates of photosynthesis, reduce Pi and increase '13C. '13C was thus modified to a greater extent by interception of radiation and by nutrient concentrations than by water availability and the '13C-O relationship varied between thinning treatments. Within treatments, the relationship between '13C and O was strong (0.38<r2<0.58). We conclude that '13C may well be a useful indicator of water availability or drought stress, but only in seasonally dry climates (P/E<1) and where variation in other environmental factors can be accounted for. 相似文献
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Effects of chilling (5 °C) period, light and applied nitrogen(N) on germination (%), rate of germination (d to 50% of totalgermination; T50%) and seed imbibition were examined inClematisvitalba L. In the absence of chilling, light and N, germinationwas minimal (3%). When applied alone, both chilling and N increasedgermination. Chilling for 12 weeks increased germination to64%, and 2.5 mM NO-3or NH+4increased germination to 1012%.Light did not increase germination when applied alone, but didwhen applied in combination with chilling and/or N. Half theseed germinated when light was combined with 2.5 mM NO-3or NH+4.The influence of chilling, light and/or N on germination wasgreater when combined, than when either factor was applied alone.Both oxidized (NO-3) and reduced (NH+4) forms of N increasedgermination, but non-N-containing compounds did not, suggestingthe response was due to N and not ionic or osmotic effects. Without additional N, T50%decreased from 1620 d at zerochilling, to around 5 d at 8 and 12 weeks chilling. AlthoughT50%was not influenced by an increase in NO-3or NH+4from 0.5to 5.0 mM , it did increase with additional applied N thereafter.However, the magnitude of the N effect was small compared tothat of chilling. Like germination, seed imbibition increasedwith a longer chilling period, but in contrast imbibition decreasedslightly with increased applied NO-3or NH+4. It is argued thatincreased imbibition is not directly related to an increasein total germination, but that it may be related to the rateof germination. Possible mechanisms involved in the reductionin dormancy ofC. vitalba seed are discussed. Clematis vitalba L.; germination; dormancy; imbibition; rate of germination; chilling; light; nitrate; ammonium; nitrogen; phytochrome 相似文献
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The possible role in drought resistance played by sclerophyllywas studied in the Mediterranean oaks Quercus ilex, Q. suberand Q. pubescens. Studies were conducted on leaves at 30, 50and 80% of their final surface area, as well as on mature leavesof the current year's growth in June and September and on 1-year-oldleaves. Leaves of different ages of the three species showed quite differentdegrees of sclerophylly (DS). Q. ilex leaves reached the definitiveDS of 1.75 g dm2 during leaf expansion; Q. pubescensleaves hardened at the end of their expansion, with a finalDS of 0.93 g dm2; Q. suber showed the lowest DS of 0.76g dm2. Leaf conductance to water vapour (g1) of 1-year-old leaves ofQ. ilex, measured in the field, showed a duration of the g1peak values about twice that of the other two species. The minimumleaf relative water content (RWC), however, was near the samein the three species, indicating that water loss was recoveredpartly by Q. ilex leaves. This was apparently due to the higherbulk modulus of elasticity ( 相似文献
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Growth and Biomass Allocation, with Varying Nitrogen Availability, of Near-isogenic Pea Lines with Differing Foliage Structure 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The single-gene mutation afila in pea (Pisum sativum L.) resultsin the replacement of proximal leaflets with branched tendrils,thereby reducing leaf area. This study investigated whethertheafila line could adjust biomass partitioning when exposedto varying nutrient regimes, to compensate for reduced leafarea, compared with wild-type plants. Wild-type and afila near-isogeniclines were grown in solution culture with nitrate-N added toinitially N-starved seedlings at relative addition rates (RN)of 0.06, 0.12, 0.15 and 0.50 d-1. The relative growth rate (RW)of the whole plants closely matched RNat 0.06 and 0.12 d-1,but higher RNresulted in a slightly higher growth rate. At agiven RN, the wild-type line had lower plant nitrogen statusthan the afila line. RWof the roots of the afila line was lessthan RWof the roots of the wild-type at the three higher ratesof N supply despite a greater accumulation of N in the rootsof the afila plants. Consequently, plant nitrogen productivity(growth rate per unit nitrogen) was lower for afila. Dry matterallocation was strongly influenced by nitrogen status, but nodifferences in shootroot dry matter allocation were foundbetween wild-type and afila with the same plant N status. Theseresults imply that decreased leaf area as a result of the single-genemutation afila affects dry matter allocation, but only accordingto its effect on the nitrogen status. Copyright 2000 Annalsof Botany Company Pisum sativum, pea, nitrogen limitation, growth, shootroot allocation, relative growth rate, nitrogen productivity, isolines 相似文献
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Effects of light intensity and quality on the relative N and P requirement (the optimum N:P ratio) of marine planktonic algae 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The relative requirement of N and P (the optimum N:P ratio)by Dunaliella tertiolecta, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Prymnesiumparvum and Thalassiosira pseudonana was studied under variouslight intensities and spectra. The ratio was determined as theratio of the minimum cell N and P concentrations (q0N and q0pwhen either nutrient was limiting. The ratio varied widely amongspecies; under light-saturation for growth (116 µEin m2s1 it ranged from 11.8 in D. tertiolecta to 36.6 in P.tricornutum. The ratio appeared to be higher at a sub-saturatingintensity (24 µEin m2 s1 in all except P.tricornutum, mainly because of higher qoN with little changein qoP. In T. pseudonana QoP also increased, resulting in aninsignificant change in the ratio. The ratio varied little withinthe range of saturation intensity. Light quality affected qoNand qoP as well as the ratio, and the pattern of change variedfrom species to species. The optimum ratio of individual specieswas linearly correlated to their qoN except in P. tricornutum.qoN for all species showed a linear correlation with cell proteinconcentrations irrespective of light conditions. The changeof optimum N:P ratios in the three species thus appears to berelated to changes in cell protein contents. The ratio of carbohydratesto protein remained constant regardless of light intensity orquality and was higher in P-limited cultures. We conclude thatchanges in light regime can strongly influence algal nutrientrequirements and species interrelationships by altering theoptimum cellular N:P ratio. 相似文献
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Sugar-beet, potato, and barley plants were grown in a controlledenvironment, for periods of up to 10 weeks from sowing, witha light intensity of 1,8oo f.c. (4·9 cal./cm.2/hr.) anda temperature of 20° C. during the 18-hour photoperiod and15° C. during the dark period, to test whether net assimilationrate varied with age and differed between the three species. Net assimilation rate of all species based on leaf area (EA)fell approximately linearly with time. During 5 weeks EA ofsugar-beet decreased by only about 20 per cent. and EA of potatodecreased by 50 per cent. EA of barley remained approximatelyconstant for 4 weeks after sowing and was halved during thesubsequent 4 weeks. The average value of EA for all times wasgreatest for sugarbeet and least for barley. Net assimilation rates based on leaf weight (EW) and leaf N(EN) decreased at about 15 per cent. of the initial value perweek for all species; this was similar to the mean rate of decreaseof EA of potato and barley, but greater than that of EA of sugar-beet.Mean values of EW or EN for potato and barley were similar andless than for sugar-beet. Relative growth rate (RW), relative leaf growth-rate (RA), andleaf-area ratio (F) fell with time at similar rates for allspecies. Average values of RW decreased and of F increased inthe order sugar-beet, potato, barley. RA was greatest for potatoand least for barley. 相似文献