Variation of nitric oxide emission potential in plants: a possible link to leaf N content and net photosynthetic activity |
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Authors: | Juan Chen Chao Wang Fei-Hua Wu Wen-Hua Wang Ting-Wu Liu Juan Chen Qiang Xiao Bin-Yuan He Hai-Lei Zheng |
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Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory for Subtropical Wetland Ecosystem Research of MOE, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;3. Laboratory of Biological Resources Protection and Utilization of Hubei Province, Hubei Institutes for Nationalities, Enshi 445000, China;4. Guangxi Academy of Oceanography, Naning 530022, China |
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Abstract: | Aims Ecological systems, especially soils, have been recently recognized as an important source of atmospheric nitric oxide (NO). However, the study on the contribution of plants to atmospheric NO budget is significantly lagged. The specific objectives of this study are to reveal the phylogenetic variation in NO emission potential existing in various plant species and find out the possible leaf traits affecting NO emission potential.Methods We measured NO emission potential, leaf N and C content, C:N ratio, specific leaf area, net photosynthetic rate (P n) and estimated photosynthetic N use efficiency (PNUE) of 88 plant species. Further investigation of the relationships between NO emission potential and leaf traits were performed by simple linear regression analysis and pair-wise correlation coefficients analysis.Important findings Major results are as follows: (1) NO emission from plant species exhibited large variations, ranging from 0 to 41.7 nmol m ?2 h-1, and the species frequency distributions of NO emission potential could be fitted to a log-normal curve. (2) Among 88 species, NO emission potential was the highest in Podocarpus macrophyllus, but lowest in Zanthoxylum nitidum and Vernicia montana. (3) NO emission potential has strong correlation to leaf N content, P n and PNUE. The variations in NO emission potential among diverse plant species may be closely related to leaf N level and net photosynthetic ability. |
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Keywords: | leaf N content leaf trait net photosynthetic rate nitric oxide phylogenetic variation |
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