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Sediment CO2, entering via the roots, contributes a significantportion of the total carbon uptake for isoetids (small, evergreen,submersed, vascular plants). Laboratory studies of inorganiccarbon uptake via the roots and shoots by five isoetids wereused to model the use of root-zone CO2. Simple first-order linearmodels accounted for at least 75 per cent of the variation inthe data for Gratiola aurea, Isoetes macrospora, Littorellauniflora and Lobelia dortmanna. For Eriocaulon septangulare,which relies almost exclusively on root-zone CO2, models couldaccount for only about 62 per cent of the variation in root-zoneCO2 use. For each species, we present the best fitting regressionof root-zone CO2 use as a function of root- and shoot-zone CO2concentrations. For the species studied, carbon uptake was not saturated atfield concentrations of root and shoot-zone CO2. Maximum ratesof carbon uptake were lower for species that naturally occurredat greater depths, compared with species more common in shallowwater. At equal external CO2 concentrations carbon entry perunit root surface area was several times more rapid than entryper unit shoot surface area for L. dortmanna. The entry ratesper unit root and shoot surface area were about equal for G.aurea and E. septangulare. Shoots were equally or more permeablethan the roots of L. uniflora and I. macrospora, a fact thatmay be related to the functioning of crassulacean acid metabolismin these plants. Carbon, CO2, photosynthesis, isoetid, Eriocaulon septangulare, Gratiola aurea, Isoetes macrospora, Littorella uniflora, Lobelia dortmanna  相似文献   

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The metabolism of winter rye seedlings (Secale cereale, L. ev.Winter) cultured in 99.8 per cent D2O was investigated. Comparedwith water-grown seedlings, the protein content was much lowerin the D2O-cultured seedlings and the pattern of incorporationof [3H]leucine and [3H]phenylalanine into protein was substantiallydifferent. Seedlings cultured in D2O incorporated [3H]thymidineinto DNA, but did not take up [3H]uridine. The results suggestthat some of the toxic effects of D2O culture on higher plantscan be attributed to a partial block of protein synthesis.  相似文献   

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The specific respiration rates of nodulated root systems, ofnodules and of roots were determined during active nitrogenfixation in soya bean, navy bean, pea, lucerne, red clover andwhite clover, by measurements on whole plants before and afterthe removal of nodule populations. Similar measurements weremade on comparable populations of the six legumes, lacking nodulesbut receiving abundant nitrate-nitrogen, to determine the specificrespiration of their roots. All plants were grown in a controlled-environmentclimate which fostered rapid growth. The specific respiration rates of nodulated root systems ofthe three grain and three forage legumes during a 7–14-dayperiod of vegetative growth varied between 10 and 17 mg CO2g–1 (dry weight) h–1. This mean value consistedof two components: a specific root respiration rate of 6–9mg CO2 g–1 h–1 and a specific nodule respirationrate of 22–46 mg CO2 g–1 h–1. Nodule respirationaccounted for 42–70 per cent of nodulated root respiration;nodule weight accounted for 12–40 per cent of nodulatedroot weight. The specific respiration rates of roots lackingnodules and utilizing nitrate nitrogen were generally 20–30per cent greater than the equivalent rates of roots from nodulatedplants. The measured respiratory effluxes are discussed in thecontext of nitrogen nitrogen fixation, nitrate assimilation. Glycine max, Phaseolus vulgaris, Pisum sativum, Medicago sativa, Trifolium pratense, Trifolium repens, soya bean, navy bean, pea, lucerne, red clover, white clover, nodule respiration, root respiration, fixation, nitrate assimilation  相似文献   

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Daily patterns of root respiration measured as CO2, efflux werestudied at various soil water potentials, temperatures, androot ages for individual, attached roots of the barrel cactusFerocactus acanthodes and the platyopuntia Opuntia ficus-indica.The daily patterns of root respiration for both establishedroots and rain roots followed the daily patterns of root temperature.Root respiration increased when root temperature was raisedfrom 5 °C to 50 °C for F. acanthodes and from 5 °Cto 55 °C for O. ficus-indica; at 60 °C root respirationdecreased 50° from the maximum for F. acanthodes and decreased25° for O. ficus-indica. Root respiration per unit d. wtdecreased with root age for both species, especially for rainroots. Root respiration rates for rain roots were reduced tozero at a soil water potential (  相似文献   

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Thermal and Water Relations of Roots of Desert Succulents   总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6  
Two succulent perennials from the Sonoran Desert, Agave desertiEngelm. and Ferocactus acanthodes (Lem.) Britton and Rose, loselittle water through their roots during drought, yet respondrapidly to light rainfall. Their roots tend to be shallow, althoughabsent from the upper 20 mm or so of the soil. During 12–15d after a rainfall, new root production increased total rootlength by 47 per cent to 740 m for A. deserti and by 27 percent to 230 m for F. acanthodes; root dry weight then averagedonly 15 per cent of shoot dry weight. The annual carbon allocatedto dry weight of new roots required 11 per cent of shoot carbondioxide uptake for A. deserti and 19 per cent for F. acanthodes.Elongation of new roots was greatest near a soil temperatureof 30°C, and lethal temperature extremes (causing a 50 percent decrease in root parenchyma cells taking up stain) were56°C and -7°C. Soil temperatures annually exceeded themeasured tolerance to high temperature at depths less than 20mm, probably explaining the lack of roots in this zone. Attached roots immersed in solutions with osmotic potentialsabove -2·6 MPa could produce new lateral roots, with50 per cent of maximum elongation occurring near -1·4MPa for both species. Non-droughted roots lost water when immersedin solutions with osmotic potentials below -0·8 MPa,and root hydraulic conductance decreased markedly below about-1·2 MPa. Pressure-volume curves indicated that, fora given change in water potential, non-droughted roots lostthree to five times more water than droughted roots, non-droughtedleaves, or non-droughted stems. Hence, such roots, which couldbe produced in response to a rainfall, will lose the most tissuewater with the onset of drought, the resulting shrinkage beingaccompanied by reduced root hydraulic conductance, less contactwith drying soil, and less water loss from the plant to thesoil. Agave deserti, Ferocactus acanthodes, roots, soil, temperature, water stress, drought, Crassulacean acid metabolism, succulents  相似文献   

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Spring wheat was grown to maturity in three growth rooms providing:(a) 18 h of light at 20° C and 6 h of darkness at 15°C (hot long days, HL); (b) 18 h of light at 15° C and 6h of darkness at 15° C (cold long days, CL); (c) 14 h lightat 20° C and 10 h of darkness at 15° C (hot short days,HS). Plants were moved between environments at spikelet initiationand anthesis, so dividing the growth period into three. Meanlengths in days of these periods in the different environmentswere: Period 1: HL 16, CL 18, HS 25; Period 2: HL 42, CL andHS 61; Period3: HL 53, CL 83, HS 63. The length of periods 2and 3 also depended on previous treatments. Grain dry weight was affected by environmental differences inall periods and effects in successive periods were additive.Compared with HL, CL or HS in period I before initiation increasedgrain yield by 6 per cent by increasing grain number per ear,HS in period 2 between initiation and anthesis decreased itby 24 per cent by decreasing the number of grains per spikeletand the proportion of spikelets that contained grain; CL inperiod 2 increased it by 21 per cent by increasing the numberof ears; CL in period 3 after anthesis increased it by 16 percent because leaves died later; HS in period 3 decreased itby 14 per cent because there was less radiation and hence lessphotosynthesis. Dry weight of shoot and root at maturity wasincreased by CL or HS in periods 1 or 2, and increased by CLand decreased by HS in period 3. The effects on final yieldof treatment during periods 1 and 2 were the consequence ofsimilar effects already produced at anthesis, and shoot androot dry weight changed little during period 3. The effects of environmental differences on grain dry weightcould not be explained by differences in leaf-area durationafter anthesis (D3), except that CL in period 3 increased bothyield and D3 but not proportionately, so that, as with HS inthe same period, grain: leaf ratio was decreased. Environmentaldifferences in periods 1 and 2 appeared to affect grain weightby altering the capacity of the ear to accumulate carbohydrates,determined by the number of grains per ear, rather than by alteringthe supply of carbohydrates, determined by D3. There were some interactions between environments in differentperiods which were usually small compared with the main effects.  相似文献   

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The Carbon Balance of a Legume and the Functional Economy of its Root Nodules   总被引:12,自引:2,他引:10  
Budgets for carbon and nitrogen in shoot, root, and nodulesof garden pea (Pisum sativum L.) are drawn up for a 9-d intervalin the life cycle, from data on nitrogen fixation, carbon accumulationin dry matter, respiratory output of plant organs, and organicsolute exchange between shoot and nodulated root. Of the carbon gained photosynthetically by the shoot from theatmosphere 26 per cent is incorporated directly into its drymatter, 32 per cent translocated to the nodules, and 42 percent to the supporting root. Of the nodules’ share, 5per cent is consumed in growth, 12 per cent in respiration,and 15 per cent returned to the shoot via the xylem, as aminocompounds generated in nitrogen fixation. Growth and respirationof the root utilize, respectively, 7 and 35 per cent. The respiratory efficiency of a nodulated root in terms of nitrogenfixation (5.9mg C per mg N2-N fixed) is found to be very similarto that of an uninoculated root assimilating nitrate (6.2 mgC per mg NO3-N reduced). The nodules require in growth, respiration,and export 4.1 mg C ( 10.3 mg carbohydrate) for each mg N whichthey fix. The nodules consume 3 ml O2 for every 1 ml N2 utilized in fixation. In exporting a milligram of fixed nitrogen the nodules requireat least 0.35 ml of water. Almost half of this requirement mightbe met by mass flow into the nodules via the phloem.  相似文献   

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FORD  ELSIE M. 《Annals of botany》1967,31(1):113-119
One-year rooted shoots of M.VII apple rootstock were grown fora single season by spraying their roots continuously with nutrientsolutions containing either < 3 ppmMg(Mg(0)) or 45 ppm(Mg(0))to give, respectively, potentially very deficient or healthyplants. The new shoots of half the plants in each of these treatmentswere dipped periodically in a 2 per cent solution of MgSO4.7H2O plus ‘wetter’. Mg(0) undipped plants developed severe symptoms of Mg deficiency,growth was poor, and the shoot/root dry-weight increment ratiowas high; none of these characteristics was found in Mg(0) dippedplants, whose growth was not appreciably less than that of Mg(2)undipped controls. There was little translocation of Mg from leaves to roots: theconcentration of Mg in roots of Mg(0) dipped plants was as lowas that of the undipped. The large accumulation of Mn and, toa less extent, of Fe in Mg(0) dipped roots was not apparentlydetrimental to growth. Growth of Mg(2) dipped plants was similar to that of the undipped. Dipping had little effect on the chemical composition of leaves,except to raise the concentration of Mg.  相似文献   

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The effects of root age, temperature, and soil water statuson root hydraulic conductivity (LP) were investigated for twocactus species, Ferocactus acanthodes and Opuntia ficus-indica.The volumetric flux density of water was measured for excisedroot segments, either using negative hydrostatic pressures appliedto the proximal end or using reverse flow of water from theroot to the soil. For both species, LP at 20 ?C increased withroot age, average values reaching a maximum of 3.9 ? 10–7m s–1 MPa–1 for F. acanthodes and 5.2 ? 10–7m s–1 MPa–1 for O.ficus-indica at 11 to 17 weeksof age; LP subsequently declined with increasing root age forboth species. LP was maximal at a temperature of about 10 ?Cfor the youngest roots (1–3 weeks), this optimum shiftingto 40 ?C for 8-week-old roots of both species. For older roots(up to 1.5-years-old), LP increased with temperature from 0?C to 50 ?C, with a Q10 of 1.3 between 20 ?C and 30 ?C. At asoil water potential (soil) of –0.016 MPa, root LP wasindependent of the direction of water flow for both species.Depending on root age, LP declined 45- to 500-fold for F. acanthodesand 90- to 800-fold for O.ficus-indica as soil was reduced from–0.016 to –1.06 MPa, consistent with a rectifier-likebehaviour with respect to water movement between soil and roots.Incorporation of such responses into water uptake models shouldlead to a better understanding of root function. Key words: Ferocactus acanthodes, Opuntia ficus-indica, water potential, tension, reverse flow  相似文献   

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The study of ß-glycerophosphatase activity in cell-wallpreparations and in excised root tips from barley seedlingssupports the view that the former, which constitutes about 20per cent of the activity of the whole homogenate, representsthe fraction located at the surface of the roots in vivo. Theactivities of the cell-wall suspension and intact roots arevirtually identical, and further show identical relations topH, substrate concentration (Km), and competitive inhibitionby molybdate and inorganic phosphate (Ki). The enzyme must thereforebe freely exposed to the external solution without any permeabilitybarrier separating it from either substrate or inhibitors. Theabsence of any lag phase in the hydrolysis in excised root tipssuggests that the surface enzyme may be limited to the outermostlayers of the root. The solubilization of some of the activityof the cell-wall preparation by treatment with sodium chlorideand ammonium sulphate suggest that surface activity may havebeen lost from these preparations rather than adsorbed duringhomogenization and extraction. The Km and pH-activity curveof the supernatant activity remaining after centrifugation ofthe cell-wall fraction indicate that only this enzyme and noother detectable glycerophosphatase exists in the roots.  相似文献   

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Activity curves are determined for gibberellins A1 to A0 bythe Avena first-leaf bioassay method. Gibberellins A1, A4 andA5 can be detected at 10-11 or 10-10 g/ml and give optimum activityof approximately 230 per cent elongation (water controls = 100per cent). Gibberellins A2A3, and A9 can be detected at 10-3g/mland give optimum activity of approximately 200 per cent. GibberellinsA6 and A7 can be detected at 10-5g/ml; GA7 gives optimum activityof around 190 per cent. All the gibberellins except GA8 canbe detected by this bioassay method after chromatography inn-butanol: 1.5 N ammonia (3: 1) and benzene: acetic acid: water(4: 2: 1) when applied to the paper at concentrations from O.Ito µg. The sensitivity of the method is compared withthat of other gibberellin bioassay methods.  相似文献   

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Carbon Dioxide Fixation by Barley Roots   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
The non-volatile, 80 per cent.ethanol-soluble products of fixationhave been investigated in excised roots, using C14O2 and radiochromatography. The main radioactive compounds separated were malic, citric(or iso-citric), aspartic, and glutamic acids, asparagine andglutamine. Less activity was present in serine, tyrosine, -ketoglutaricacid, and alanine, and in a number of unidentified compounds. The uptake of C14O2 was inhibited by virtually anaerobic conditions. From the above observations it is considered likely that C14is transformed through the reactions of the tricarboxylic acidcycle. C14 in the soluble fraction was markedly increased by maintainingthe root material in water rather than in a nutrient solutionprior to exposure to C14O2 This increase was chiefly in malicacid.  相似文献   

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Root respiration, measured as CO2 efflux, was studied for asucculent perennial from the Sonoran Desert, Agave deserti,with a new technique using individual, attached roots. The dailypatterns of root respiration closely followed the daily patternsof root temperature for both established roots and rain roots,with higher rates during the day when root temperature averaged27?C and lower rates at night when root temperature averaged17?C. When root temperature was raised from 5?C to 40?C, rootrespiration increased about 7-fold; from 45 ?C to 55 ?C, rootrespiration decreased about 2-fold, except for old establishedroots. Root respiration per unit dry weight for both root typesdecreased with age, the initial decrease being greater for rainroots than for established roots. Root respiration rates forrain roots were reduced to zero at a soil water potential (soil)of –0.9 MPa and did not recover upon rewatering. Upondrying, root respiration rates for established roots were maintainedat about 12% of maximum, even when soil fell to –1.6 MPa,and fully recovered 1.5 d after rewatering the soil. Such responsesof rain and established roots must be taken into account whenassessing the carbon costs for the root system. Key words: Agave deserti, CO2 exchange, root respiration, temperature, soil water potential  相似文献   

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The course of water uptake and respiration rate rise in cotyledonsof Phaseolus vulgaris is divided into three phases. In the first phase lasting 10–16 hrs. respiration rateis controlled by water content; desiccation and reimbibitioninfluence cotyledon water content and respiration rate alikeand the changes are reversible; low temperature prevents watercontent rising above 50 per cent. and also limits respirationrate; both processes have Q10 near unity. The second phase lasting 3–8 hrs. is characterized bya pause in both water uptake and respiration rate rise. In the third phase respiration rate continues to rise untilthe fifth day, after which it falls steadily until eventuallythe cotyledons absciss. The period of rising respiration isone of metabolic activity, the rise having a high Q10 and beingprevented by low temperature. Desiccation at this stage is irreversible.  相似文献   

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A morphologically explicit numerical model for analysing wateruptake by individual roots was developed based on a conductornetwork, with specific conductors representing axial or radialconductivities for discrete root segments. Hydraulic conductivity(Lp; m s–1 MPa–1) was measured for roots of Agavedeserti Engelm. and Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller by applyinga partial vacuum to the proximal ends of excised roots in solution.Lp was also measured for 40- to 80-mm segments along a root,followed by measurements of axial conductivity and calculationof radial conductivity. Predicted values of Lp for entire rootsbased on two to ten segments per root averaged 1.04±0.07(mean±s.e. mean for n = 3) of the measured Lp for A.deserti and 1.06±0.10 for O. ficus-indica. The modelalso closely predicted the drop in water potential along theroot xylem (xylem); when a tension of 50 kPa was applied tothe proximal ends of 0.2 m-long roots of A. deserti and O. ficus-indica,the measured xylem to midroot averaged 30 kPa compared witha predicted decrease of 36 kPa. Such steep gradients in xylemsuggest that the driving force for water movement from the soilto young distal roots may be relatively small. The model, whichagreed with an analytical solution for a simple hypotheticalsituation, can quantify situations without analytical solutions,such as when root and soil properties vary arbitrarily alonga root. Agave deserti, electrical circuit analog, hydraulic conductivity, Opuntia ficus-indica, water potential  相似文献   

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A technique used for hydroponics was adapted to measure instantaneousroot water uptake from the soil for a leaf succulent CAM species,Agave deserti. Comparisons were made to previously modelledwater fluxes for A. deserti and to Encelia farinosa, a non-succulentC3species. Net CO2uptake and transpiration forA. deserti underwell-watered conditions occurred primarily at night whereasroot water uptake was relatively constant over 24 h. Leaf thicknessdecreased when transpiration commenced and then increased whenrecharge from the stem and soil occurred, consistent with previousmodels. A drought of 90 d eliminated net CO2uptake and transpirationand reduced the water content of leaves by 62%. Rewetting theentire root system for 7 d led to a full recovery of leaf waterstorage but only 56% of maximal net CO2uptake. Root water uptakewas maximal immediately after rewetting, which replenished rootwater content, and decreased to a steady rate by 14 d. Whenonly the distal 50% of the root system was rewetted, the timefor net CO2uptake and leaf water storage to recover increased,but by 30 d gas exchange and leaf water storage were similarto 100% rewetting. Rewetting 10 or 20% of the root system resultedin much less water uptake; these plants did not recover leafwater storage or gas exchange by 30 d after rewetting. A redundancyin the root system of A. deserti apparently exists for dailywater uptake requirements under wet conditions but the entireroot system is required for rapid recovery from drought.Copyright1999 Annals of Botany Company Agave deserti Engelm., desert, drought, gas exchange, rewetting, roots, succulent, water uptake.  相似文献   

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Transformed hairy roots were induced at the excised site ofthe epicotyl of dry mature seed of a Spanish type peanut(Arachishypogaea)cv. Java 13 2 weeks after inoculation with a wild typestrain ofAgrobacterium rhizogenes,MAFF-02-10266. Composite plantsconsisting of transformed roots with non-transformed shootswere cultured using pouches. Forty days after inoculation, thecomposite plant showed a root system with abundant root mass,more lateral branching and high fractal dimension compared tothe control. No differences were observed in production of rosette-typeroot hairs or the cross sectional structure between transformedand non-transformed roots. The inoculation ofBradyrhizobiumsp.A2R1 strain to the composite plants led to the induction oftransformed root nodules. These transformed root nodules showedproduction of leghaemoglobin in the bacterial zone and nitrogenaseactivity as assayed by C2H2reduction, and exhibited enlargementof the nodule cortex region andde novoroot formation from thenodule cortex.Copyright 1998 Annals of Botany Company Agrobacterium rhizogenes;Arachis hypogaeaL.; composite plant; peanut; transformation; root nodule.  相似文献   

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Hydraulic and osmotic properties of spruce roots   总被引:9,自引:6,他引:3  
Hydraulic and osmotic properties of roots of 2-year-old Norwayspruce seedlings (Plcea abiea (L.) Karst) were investigatedusing different techniques (steady flow, pressure probe, andstop flow technique). Root pressures were measured using theroot pressure probe. Compared to roots of herbaceous plantsor deciduous trees, excised root systems of spruce did not developappreciable root pressure (-0.001 to 0.004 MPa or -10 to 40cm of water column). When hydrostatic pressure gradients wereused to drive water flows across the roots, hydraulic conductivities(Lpr) were determined in two types of experiments: (i) rootpressure relaxations (using the root pressure probe) and (ii)steady flow experiments (pneumatic pressures applied to theroot system or xylem or partial vacuum applied to the xylem).Root Lpr ranged between 0.2 and 810–8m s–1 MPa–1(on average) depending on the conditions. In steady flow experiments,Lpr depended on the pressure applied (or on the flow acrossthe roots) and equalled (0.190.12) to (1.21.7)10–8m s–1 MPa–1 at pressures between 0.2 and 0.4 MPaand (1.51.3)10–8 m s–1 MPa–1 at appliedpressures between 0.8 and 1.0 MPa. When pressures or vacuumwere applied to the xylem, Lpr values were similar. The hydraulicconductivity measured during pressure relaxations (transientwater flows) was similar to that obtained at high pressures(and water flows). Although there was a considerable scatterin the data, there was a tendency of the hydraulic conductivityof the roots to decrease with increasing size of the root system.When osmotic gradients were used to drive water flows, Lpr valuesobtained with the root pressure probe were much smaller thanthose measured in the presence of hydrostatic gradients. Onaverage, a root Lpr=0.01710–8 was found for osmotic andLpr=6.410–8 m s–1 MPa–1 in correspondinghydrostatic experiments, i.e. the two values differed by a factorwhich was as large as 380. The same hydraulic conductivity asthat obtained in osmotic experiments using the pressure probewas obtained by the 'stop flow techniquel. In this technique,the suction created by an osmoticum applied to the root wasbalanced by a vacuum applied to the xylem. Lpr values of rootsystems did not change significantly when measured for up to5 d. In osmotic experiments with different solutes (Na2S04,K2S04, Ca(NO3)2, mannitol), no passive uptake of solutes couldbe detected, i.e. the solute permeability was very low whichwas different from earlier findings on roots of herbs. Reflectioncoefficients of spruce roots (O were low for solutes for whichplant cell membranes exhibit values of virtually unity (  相似文献   

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KOUCHI  H.; YONEYAMA  T. 《Annals of botany》1984,53(6):875-882
A long-term, steady-state 13CO2 assimilation system at a constantCO2 concentration with a constant 13C abundance was designedand applied to quantitative investigations on the allocationof photoassimilated carbon in nodulated soya bean (Glycine maxL.) plants. The CO2 concentration in the assimilation chamberand its 13C abundance were maintained constant with relativevariances of less than ±0.5 per cent during an 8-h assimilationperiod. At the termination of 8-h 13CO2 assimilation by plantsat early flowering stage, the currently assimilated carbon relativeto total tissue carbon (measured by the degree of isotopic saturation)were for young leaves (including flower buds), 13.9 per cent;mature leaves, 15.7 per cent; stems+petioles, 5.9 per cent;roots, 5.4 per cent and nodules, 6.9 per cent, 48 h after theend of the 13CO2 assimilation period, they were 12.3, 7.5, 7.4,6.8 and 6.1 per cent, respectively. The treatment with a highconcentration of nitrate in the nutrient media significantlydecreased the allocation of 13C into nodules. Experiments on13CO2 assimilation by plants at the pod-filling stage were alsoconducted. Labelling by 13C was weaker than at the early floweringstage, but an intense accumulation of 13C into reproductiveorgans was observed. Glycine max L., nodulated soya bean plants, 13CO2 assimilation, carbon dynamics  相似文献   

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Dwarf french beans (Phaseolus vulgaris var. Canadian Wonder)were grown in chambers at 25?C with the roots aerated at 20per cent oxygen and tops variously maintained at: T1 O2 0.21;CO2 270?10–6: T2; O2 0.05, CO2, CO2 270?10–6: T3;O2 0.21; CO2 550?10–6. Experiment 1 (T1 and T2) lasted2 weeks: Experiment 2 (T1 T2 and T3) only one week. Hourly estimatesof CO2 uptake were made by gas analysis and weekly estimatesof fresh weight, dry matter in tops and roots, and leaf area,by sampling. Light intensity was 80 W m–2 of photosyntheticallyactive radiation. An attempt was made to explain the results in terms of a simplelight absorption model such that where dV/dt is the rate of CO2 uptake per plant, ßis the photosynthetic efficiency, I0 is the incident light intensity,f is the fraction of incident light absorbed by unit leaf layerand L is the leaf area index. The analysis showed that ß(T2)was at least double ß(T1), whilst f(T2) was smallerthan f(T1) at a given leaf area. The results also required thatthroughout the period of the experiment, fL(T1)=fL(T2) at anygiven time, i.e. the treatment with the larger leaf area (T2)has the smaller value of f, and therefore intercepts less lightper unit leaf area. This could be advantageous for plant growth,but requires further experiments. The photosynthetic rates per unit leaf are about 40 per centgreater in T2 than T1. Over the relatively short period of the experiment the resultsare adequately described by U=btn, where U is the accumulatedcarbon dioxide uptake, b is related to the photosynthetic efficiency(different for the differing treatments), and n is a constant(similar for all treatments). This relationship with time isbelieved to be a relationship with accumulated radiation, forthe light was constant throughout the experiments. Comparisons of carbon fixed (measured gas uptake) and dry matteraccumulation (sampling) show great scatter with an average valueof 0.43. The first week's results were generally smaller thanthis value and the second week's greater. Energy fixation as a fraction of photosynthetically active radiationon the ground area covered by the plants ranged from 3.5 to10 per cent. The results from treatment T3 were similar to T2 suggestingthat increasing CO2 concentration decreases the growth inhibitionat 21 per cent O2.  相似文献   

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