Response of root respiration to changes in temperature and its relevance to global

New Phytologist

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 141-154

  Atkin, Owen K ^a   Edwards, Everard J ^a   Loveys, Beth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Diurnal variation; Global warming; Mitochondria; Q10; Root respiration; Seasonal variation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; RESPIRATION; ROOT SYSTEM;

EID: 0033879648     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00683.x     Document Type: Review

References (75)

1. Amthor JS. 1984. The role of maintenance respiration in plant growth. Plant, Cell & Environment 7: 561-569.
2. Amthor JS. 1989. Respiration and crop productivity. New York, USA: Springer-Verlag.
3. Atkin OK, Botman B, Lambers H. 1996. The causes of inherently slow growth in alpine plants: an analysis based on the underlying carbon economies of alpine and lowland Poa species. Functional Ecology 10: 698-707.
4. Atkin OK, Cummins WR. 1994. The effect of root temperature on the induction of nitrate reductase activities and nitrogen uptake rates in arctic plant species. Plant and Soil 159: 187-197.
5. Atkin OK, Holly C, Ball MC. 2000a. Acclimation of snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) leaf respiration to seasonal and diurnal variations in temperature: the importance of changes in the capacity and temperature sensitivity of respiration. Plant, Cell & Environment 23: 15-26.
6. Atkin OK, Lambers H. 1998. Slow-growing alpine and fast-growing lowland species: a case study of factors associated with variation in growth rate among herbaceous higher plants under natural and controlled conditions. In: Lambers H. Poorter H. Van Vuuren MMI, eds. Inherent variation in plant growth: physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences. Leiden, The Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers, 259-288.
7. Atkin OK, Millar AH, Gardeström P, Day DA. 2000b. Relationships between photosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism and respiration in higher plants. In: Leegood RC, Sharkey TT, Von Cammerer S, eds. Advances in photosynthesis, vol. 9. Photosynthesis: physiology and metabolism. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 153-175.
8. Atkin OK, Villar R, Lambers H. 1995. Partitioning of electrons between the cytochrome and alternative pathways in intact roots. Plant Physiology 108: 1179-1183.
9. 2 production by respiration in darkened and illuminated wheat leaves. Plant Physiology 71: 574-581.
10. Berry JA, Raison JK. 1981. Responses of macrophytes to temperature. In: Lange OL, Nobel PS, Osmond CB, Zeigler H, eds. Physiological plant ecology. I. Responses to the physical environment. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Yerlag, 277-338.
11. Bigot J, Boucaud J. 1996. Short-term responses of Brassica rapa plants to low root temperature: effects on nitrate uptake and its translocation to the shoot. Physiologia Plantarum 96: 646-654.
12. Billings WD, Godfrey PJ, Chabot BF, Bourque DP. 1971. Metabolic acclimation to temperature in Arctic and alpine ecotypes of Oxyria digyna. Arctic and Alpine Research 3: 277-289.
13. Billings WD, Peterson KM, Shaver GR, Trent AW. 1977. Root growth, respiration, and carbon dioxide evolution in an arctic tundra soil. Arctic and Alpine Research 9: 129-137.
14. Bouma TJ, Broekhuysen AGM, Veen BW. 1996. Analysis of root respiration of Solanum tuberosum as related to growth, ion uptake and maintenance of biomass. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 34: 795-806.
15. Bouma TJ, Devisser R, Janssen JHJA, Dekock MJ, Vanleeuwen PH, Lambers H. 1994. Respiratory energy requirements and rate of protein turnover in vivo determined by the use of an inhibitor of protein synthesis and a probe to assess its effect. Physiologia Plantarum 92: 585-594.
16. 2, soil temperature and soil water content. Plant and Soil 195: 221-232.
17. Bowden RD, Nadelhoffer KJ, Boone RD, Melillo JM, Garrison JB. 1993. Contributions of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperature mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 1402-1407.
18. Brouwer R. 1963. Functional equilibrium: sense or nonsense. Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 31: 335-348.
19. Bryla DR, Bouma TJ, Eissenstat DM. 1997. Root respiration in citrus acclimates to temperature and slows during drought. Plant, Cell & Environment 20: 1411-1420.
20. Clarkson DT, Earnshaw MJ, White PJ, Cooper HD. 1988. Temperature dependent factors influencing nutrient uptake: an analysis of responses at different levels of organization. In: Long SP, Woodward FI, eds. Plants and temperature. Cambridge, UK: Company of Biologists, 281-309.
21. Crawford RMM, Palin MA. 1981. Root respiration and temperature limits to the north-south distribution of four perennial maritime plants. Flora 171: 338-354.
22. Cullen MJP. 1993. The unified forecast/climate model. The Meteorological Magazine 122: 81-95.
23. Day DA, Krab K, Lambers H, Moore AL, Siedow JN, Wagner AM, Wiskich JT. 1996. The cyanide-resistant oxidase: to inhibit or not to inhibit, that is the question. Plant Physiology 110: 1-2.
24. Day DA, Lambers H. 1983. The regulation of glycolysis and electron transport in roots. Physiologia Plantarum 58: 155-160.
25. 2 concentrations. American Journal of Botany 83: 133-139.
26. Farrar JF, Jones DL. 2000. The control of carbon acquisition by roots. New Phytologist 147: 43-53.
27. Fitter AH, Graves JD, Self GK, Brown TK, Bogie DS, Taylor K. 1998. Root production, turnover and respiration under two grassland types along an altitudinal gradient-influence of temperature and solar radiation. Oecologia 114: 20-30.
28. 2 concentration and temperature long-term versus short-term distinctions for modelling. Global Change Biology 1: 385-396.
29. Gonzàlez Meler MA, Ribas Carbo M, Giles L, Siedow JN. 1999. The effect of growth and measurement temperature on the activity of the alternative respiratory pathway. Plant Physiology 120: 765-772.
30. Graham D, Patterson BD. 1982. Responses of plants to low, nonfreezing temperatures: proteins, metabolism, and acclimation. Annual Review of Plant Physiology 33: 347-372.
31. Graves J, Reavey D. 1996. Global environmental change. Harlow, UK: Longman.
32. Gunn S, Farrar JF. 1999. Effects of a 4°C increase in temperature on partitioning of leaf area and dry mass, root respiration and carbohydrates. Functional Ecology 13: 12-20.
33. Guy RD, Berry JA, Fogel ML, Turpin DH, Weger HG. 1992. Fractionation of the stable isotopes of oxygen during respiration by plants - the basis of a new technique to estimate partitioning to the alternative path. In: Lambers H, van der Plas LHW, eds. Molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of plant respiration. The Hague, The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing, 443-454.
34. Henry BK, Atkin OK, Day DA, Millar AH, Menz RI, Farquhar GD. 1999. Calculation of the oxygen isotope-discrimination factor for studying plant respiration. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 26: 773-780.
35. Higgins PD, Spomer GG. 1976. Soil temperature effects on root respiration and the ecology of alpine and subalpine plants. Botanical Gazette 137: 110-120.
36. Hulme M. 1999. Air temperature in central England. In: Cannell MGR, Palutikof JP, Sparks TH, eds. Indicators of climate change in the UK. London, UK: Department of Environment, Transport and Regions, 6-7.
37. Johnson IR. 1990. Plant respiration in relation to growth, maintenance, ion uptake and nitrogen assimilation. Plant, Cell & Environment 13: 319-328.
38. Klikoff LG. 1966. Temperature dependence of the oxidative rates of mitochondria in Danthonia intermedia, Penstemon davidsonii and Sitanion hystrix. Nature 212: 529-530.
39. Klikoff LG. 1968. Temperature dependence of mitochondrial oxidative rates of several plant species of the Sierra Nevada. Botanical Gazette 129: 227-230.
40. Körner C, Larcher W. 1988. Plant life in cold environments. In: Long SF, Woodward FI, eds. Plants and temperature. Symposium of the Society of Experimental Biologists, volume 42. Cambridge, UK: The Company of Biologists Limited, 25-57.
41. Lambers H, Atkin OK. 1995. Regulation of carbon metabolism in roots. In: Madore MA, Lucas WJ, eds. Carbon partitioning and source-sink interactions in plants. Riverside, CA, USA: The American Society of Plant Physiologists, 226-238.
42. Lambers H, Atkin OK, Scheurwater I. 1996. Respiratory patterns in roots in relation to their functioning. In: Waisel Y, Eshel A, Kafkaki U, eds. Plant roots. The hidden half. New York, USA: Marcel Dekker, 323-362.
43. Lambers H, Chapin FS, Pons TL. 1998. Plant physiological ecology. New York, USA: Springer-Verlag.
44. Larigauderie A, Körner C. 1995. Acclimation of leaf dark respiration to temperature in alpine and lowland plant species. Annals of Botany 76: 245-252.
45. Long SP, Hutchin PR. 1991. Primary production in grasslands and coniferous forests with climate change - an overview. Ecological Applications 1: 139-156.
46. McDonnell E, Farrar JF. 1992. Substrate supply and its effect on mitochondrial and whole tissue respiration in barley roots. In: Lambers H, van der Plas LHW, eds. Molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of plant respiration. The Hague, The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing, 455-462.
47. Millar AH, Atkin OK, Menz RI, Henry B, Farquhar GD, Day DA. 1998. Analysis of respiratory chain regulation in roots of soybean seedlings. Plant Physiology 117: 1083-1093.
48. Millar AH, Day DA. 1997. Alternative solutions to radical problems. Trends in Plant Science 2: 289-290.
49. Miroslavov EA, Kravkina IM. 1991. Comparative analysis of chloroplasts and mitochondria in leaf chlorenchyma from mountain plants grown at different altitudes. Annals of Botany 68: 195-200.
50. Moore AL, Gemel J, Randall DD. 1993. The regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in pea leaf mitochondria the effect of respiration and oxidative phosphorylation. Plant Physiology 103: 1431-1435.
51. Moore TR, Roulet NT, Waddington JM. 1998. Uncertainty in predicting the effect of climatic change on the carbon cycling of Canadian peatlands. Climatic Change 40: 229-245.
52. Ögren E, Nilsson T, Sunblad L-G. 1997. Relationship between respiratory depletion of sugars and loss of cold hardiness in coniferous seedlings over-wintering at raised temperatures: indications of different sensitivities of spruce and pine. Plant, Cell & Environment 20: 247-253.
53. Palta JA, Nobel PS. 1989. Root respiration for Agave deserti: influence of temperature, water status and root age on daily patterns. Journal of Experimental Botany 40: 181-186.
54. Penning de Vries FWT. 1975. The cost of maintenance processes in plant cells. Annals of Botany 39: 77-92.
55. Poorter H, Van Der Werf A, Atkin OK, Lambers H. 1991. Respiratory energy requirements of roots vary with the potential growth rate of a species. Physiologia Plantarum 83: 469-475.
56. Pregitzer KS, King JS, Burton AJ, Brown SE. 2000. Responses of tree fine roots to temperature. New Phytologist 147: 105-115.
57. Pregitzer KS, Laskowski MJ, Burton AJ, Lessard VC, Zak DR. 1998. Variation in sugar maple root respiration with root diameter and soil depth. Tree Physiology 18: 665-670.
58. Purvis AC, Shewfelt RL. 1993. Does the alternative pathway ameliorate chilling injury in sensitive plant tissues? Physiologia Plantarurn 88: 712-718.
59. Ryan MG. 1995. Foliar maintenance respiration of subalpine and boreal trees and shrubs in relation to nitrogen content. Plant, Cell & Environment 18: 765-772.
60. Scheurwater I, Cornelissen C, Dictus F, Welschen R, Lambers H. 1998. Why do fast- and slow-growing grass species differ so little in their rate of root respiration, considering the large differences in rate of growth and ion uptake? Plant, Cell and Environment 21: 995-1005.
61. Smakman G, Hofstra RJJ. 1982. Energy metabolism of Plantago lanceolata, as affected by change in root temperature. Physiologia Plantarum 56: 33-37.
62. Sowell JB, Spomer GG. 1986. Ecotypic variation in root respiration rate among elevational populations of Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii. Oecologia 68: 375-379.
63. 2 in seedlings of boreal tree species in relation to plant size and relative growth rate. Global Change Biology 5: 679-691.
64. 2 acclimation of dark respiration in five boreal tree species. Plant, Cell & Environment 22: 767-778.
65. Van Der Werf A, Kooijman A, Welschen R, Lambers H. 1988. Respiratory energy costs for the maintenance of biomass, for growth and for ion uptake in roots of Carex diandra and Carex acutiformis. Physiologia Plantarum 72: 483-491.
66. Vanlerberghe GC, McIntosh L. 1992. Lower growth temperature increases alternative pathway capacity and alternative oxidase protein in tobacco. Plant Physiology 100: 115-119.
67. Veen BW. 1980. Energy costs of ion transport. In: Rains DW, Valentine RC, Holaender C, eds. Genetic engineering of osmoregulation. Impact on plant productivity for food, chemicals and energy. New York, USA: Plenum Press, 187-195.
68. Wager HG. 1941. On the respiration and carbon assimilation rates of some arctic plants as related to temperature. New Phytologist 40: 1-19.
69. Weger HG, Guy RD. 1991. Cytochrome and alternative pathway respiration in white spruce (Picea glauca) roots. Effects of growth and measurement temperature. Physiologia Plantarum 83: 675-681.
70. Wigley TML. 1989. Measurement and prediction of global warming. In: Jones RR, Wigley TML, eds. Ozone depletion: health and environmental consequences. Chichesrer, UK: John Wiley, 85-97.
71. Williams JHH, Farrar JF. 1990. Control of barley root respiration. Physiologia Plantarum 79: 259-266.
72. Wiskich JT, Dry IB. 1985. The tricarboxylic acid cycle in plant mitochondria: its operation and regulation. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology 85: 281-313.
73. Zimmerman RC, Smith RD, Alberte RS. 1989. Thermal acclimation and whole-plant carbon balance in Zostera marina L. (eelgrass). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 130: 93-109.
74. 2 as modified by growth temperature. Physiologia Plantarum 87: 459-466.
75. Zogg GP, Zak DR, Burton AJ, Pregitzer KS. 1996. Fine root respiration in northern hardwood forests in relation to temperature and nitrogen availability. Tree Physiology 16: 719-725.