Plant δ15N correlates with the transpiration efficiency of nitrogen acquisition in tropical trees

Plant Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1667-1676

  Cernusak, Lucas A ^a,b   Winter, Klaus ^a   Turner, Benjamin L ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; METABOLISM; PLANT ROOT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 70350675479     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.145870     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Aidar MPM, Schmidt S, Moss G, Stewart GR, Joly CA (2003) Nitrogen use strategies of neotropical rainforest trees in threatened Atlantic Forest. Plant Cell Environ 26: 389-399
2. Andrews M (1986) The partitioning of nitrate assimilation between root and shoot of higher plants. Plant Cell Environ 9: 511-519
3. Arndt SK, Wanek W, Hoch G, Richter A, Popp M (2002) Flexibility of nitrogen metabolism in the tropical C3-Crassulacean acid metabolism tree species, Clusia minor. Funct Plant Biol 29: 741-747
4. Britto DT, Kronzucker HJ (2006) Futile cycling at the plasma membrane: a hallmark of low-affinity nutrient transport. Trends Plant Sci 11: 529-534
5. Britto DT, Siddiqi MY, Glass ADM, Kronzucker HJ (2001) Futile transmembrane NH41 cycling: a cellular hypothesis to explain ammonium toxicity in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 4255-4258
6. Cernusak LA, Aranda J, Marshall JD, Winter K (2007a) Large variation in whole-plant water-use efficiency among tropical tree species. New Phytol 173: 294-305
7. Cernusak LA, Farquhar GD, Wong SC, Stuart-Williams H (2004) Measurement and interpretation of the oxygen isotope composition of carbon dioxide respired by leaves in the dark. Plant Physiol 136: 3350-3363
8. 18O) of seedlings grown in a tropical environment. Plant Physiol 148: 642-659
9. Cernusak LA, Winter K, Aranda J, Turner BL, Marshall JD (2007b) Transpiration efficiency of a tropical pioneer tree (Ficus insipida) in relation to soil fertility. J Exp Bot 58: 3549-3566
10. 18O) responses of three tropical tree species to water and nutrient availability. Plant Cell Environ 32: 1441-1455
11. Comstock JP (2001) Steady-state isotopic fractionation in branched pathways using plant uptake of NO32 as an example. Planta 214: 220-234
12. Crawford NM, Glass ADM (1998) Molecular and physiological aspects of nitrate uptake in plants. Trends Plant Sci 3: 389-395
13. Dalton FN, Raats PAC, Gardner WR (1975) Simultaneous uptake of water and solutes by plant roots. Agron J 67: 334-339
14. Evans RD (2001) Physiological mechanisms influencing plant nitrogen isotope composition. Trends Plant Sci 6: 121-126
15. Evans RD, Bloom AJ, Sukrapanna SS, Ehleringer JR (1996) Nitrogen isotope composition of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. T-5) grown under ammonium or nitrate nutrition. Plant Cell Environ 19: 1317-1323
16. Falkengren-Grerup U, Michelsen A, Olsson MO, Quarmby C, Sleep D (2004) Plant nitrate use in deciduous woodland: the relationship between leaf N, 15N natural abundance of forbs and soil N mineralisation. Soil Biol Biochem 36: 1885-1891
17. Farquhar GD, Cernusak LA (2005) On the isotopic composition of leaf water in the non-steady state. Funct Plant Biol 32: 293-303
18. Fiscus EL (1975) The interaction between osmoticand pressure-induced water flow in plant roots. Plant Physiol 55: 917-922
19. Fiscus EL (1977) Determination of hydraulic and osmotic properties of soybean root systems. Plant Physiol 59: 1013-1020
20. Fiscus EL (1986) Belowground costs: hydraulic conductance. In TJ Givnish, ed, On the Economy of Plant Form and Function. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp 275-298
21. Fiscus EL, Kramer PJ (1975) General model for osmotic and pressureinduced flow in plant roots. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 72: 3114-3118
22. 15N abundance and the availability of soil nitrogen on Walker Branch Watershed. Ecology 74: 2098-2113
23. Glass ADM (2003) Nitrogen use efficiency of crop plants: physiological constraints upon nitrogen absorption. Crit Rev Plant Sci 22: 453-470
24. 13C values of Eucalyptus globulus and Ricinus communis. Plant Cell Environ 16: 375-382
25. Handley LL, Raven JA (1992) The use of natural abundance of nitrogen isotopes in plant physiology and ecology. Plant Cell Environ 15: 965-985
26. 15N and nitrogen concentrations may indicate plant-mycorrhizal interactions. Oecologia 122: 273-283
27. 15N natural abundance in soil-plant systems. New Phytol 137: 179-203
28. Houlton BZ, Sigman DM, Schuur EAG, Hedin LO (2007) A climate-driven switch in plant nitrogen acquisition within tropical forest communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104: 8902-8906
29. Houlton BZ, Wang YP, Vitousek PM, Field CB (2008) A unifying frame-work for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere. Nature 454: 327-330
30. Kahmen A, Wanek W, Buchmann N (2008) Foliar d15N values characterize soil N cycling and reflect nitrate or ammonium preference of plants along a temperate grassland gradient. Oecologia 156: 861-870
31. Kolb KJ, Evans RD (2003) Influence of nitrogen source and concentration on nitrogen isotopic discrimination in two barley genotypes (Hordeum vulgare L.). Plant Cell Environ 26: 1431-1440
32. Kronzucker HJ, Siddiqi MY, Glass ADM, Britto DT (2003) Root ammonium transport efficiency as a determinant in forest colonization patterns: an hypothesis. Physiol Plant 117: 164-170
33. Ledgard SF, Woo KC, Bergersen FJ (1985) Isotopic fractionation during reduction of nitrate and nitrite by extracts of spinach leaves. Aust J Plant Physiol 12: 631-640
34. 15N abundance measurements. Nature 303: 685-687
35. Mariotti A, Mariotti F, Champigny M-L, Amarger N, Moyse A (1982) Nitrogen isotope fractionation associated with nitrate reductase activity and uptake of NO32 by pearl millet. Plant Physiol 69: 880-884
36. Mckey DM (1994) Legumes and nitrogen: the evolutionary ecology of a nitrogen-demanding lifestyle. In JI Sprent, DM Mckey, eds, Advances in Legume Systematics 5: The Nitrogen Factor. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, pp 211-228
37. 15N natural abundance and nitrogen uptake traits among co-occurring alpine species: do species partition by nitrogen form? Oecologia 130: 609-616
38. Min X, Siddiqi MY, Guy RD, Glass ADM, Kronzucker HJ (1999) A comparative study of fluxes and compartmentation of nitrate and ammonium in early-successional tree species. Plant Cell Environ 22: 821-830
39. Nasholm T, Kielland K, Ganeteg U (2009) Uptake of organic nitrogen by plants. New Phytol 182: 31-48
40. Nye PH, Tinker PB (1977) Solute Movement in the Soil-Root System. University of California Press, Berkeley
41. 15N natural abundance of plant and soil components of a Banksia woodland ecosystem in relation to nitrate utilization, life form, mycorrhizal status and N2-fixing abilities of component species. Plant Cell Environ 16: 365-373
42. Peoples MB, Gifford RM (1997) Regulation of the transport of nitrogen and carbon in higher plants. In DT Dennis, DB Layzell, DD Lefebvre, DH Turpin, eds, Plant Metabolism, Ed 2. Addison Wesley Longman, Essex, UK, pp 525-538
43. Pritchard ES, Guy RD (2005) Nitrogen isotope discrimination in white spruce fed with low concentrations of ammonium and nitrate. Trees Struct Funct 19: 89-98
44. 15N as an integrator of the nitrogen cycle. Trends Ecol Evol 16: 153-162
45. 13C) to integrate the stress responses of wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum C. Koch.) genotypes. J Exp Bot 51: 41-50
46. Scheurwater I, Clarkson DT, Purves JV, Van Rijt G, Saker LR, Welschen R, Lambers H (1999) Relatively large nitrate efflux can account for the high specific respiratory costs for nitrate transport in slow-growing grass species. Plant Soil 215: 123-134
47. 15N natural abundance and microbial activities. Soil Biol Biochem 40: 487-494
48. 15N of two subtropical Eucalyptus species from contrasting ecosystems. Funct Plant Biol 33: 367-379
49. Schmidt S, Stewart GR (1997) Waterlogging and fire impacts on nitrogen availability and utilization in a subtropical wet heathland (wallum). Plant Cell Environ 20: 1231-1241
50. Schmidt S, Stewart GR (1999) Glycine metabolism by plant roots and its occurrence in Australian plant communities. Aust J Plant Physiol 26: 253-264
51. Seginer I (2003) A dynamic model for nitrogen-stressed lettuce. Ann Bot (Lond) 91: 623-635
52. Siddiqi MY, Glass ADM, Ruth TJ (1991) Studies of the uptake of nitrate in barley. III. Compartmentation of NO32. J Exp Bot 42: 1455-1463
53. Smirnoff N, Stewart GR (1985) Nitrate assimilation and translocation by higher plants: comparative physiology and ecological consequences. Physiol Plant 64: 133-140
54. Stewart GR, Hegarty EE, Specht RL (1988) Inorganic nitrogen assimilation in plants of Australian rainforest communities. Physiol Plant 74: 26-33
55. Stewart GR, Pate JS, Unkovich M (1993) Characteristics of inorganic nitrogen assimilation of plants in fire-prone Mediterranean-type vegetation. Plant Cell Environ 16: 351-363
56. Tcherkez G, Farquhar GD (2006) Isotopic fractionation by plant nitrate reductase, twenty years later. Funct Plant Biol 33: 531-537
57. Tedersoo L, Suvi T, Beaver K, Koljalg U (2007) Ectomycorrhizal fungi of the Seychelles: diversity patterns and host shifts from the native Vateriopsis seychellarum (Dipterocarpaceae) and Intsia bijuga (Caesalpiniaceae) to the introduced Eucalyptus robusta (Myrtaceae), but not Pinus caribea (Pinaceae). New Phytol 175: 321-333
58. 14NO32 efflux by two maize (Zea mays L.) inbreds during nitrogen deprivation. Plant Physiol 86: 778-781
59. Vitousek PM, Howarth RW (1991) Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: how can it occur? Biogeochemistry 13: 87-115
60. Wanek W, Arndt SK, Huber W, Popp M (2002) Nitrogen nutrition during ontogeny of hemiepiphytic Clusia species. Funct Plant Biol 29: 733-740
61. Wang B, Qiu Y-L (2006) Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of mycorrhizas in land plants. Mycorrhiza 16: 299-363
62. 13NH41. Plant Physiol 103: 1249-1258
63. 14N fractionation during N2 fixation in the legume-rhizobia symbiotic system. Plant Cell Physiol 27: 791-799
64. Yoneyama T, Kamachi K, Yamaya T, Mae T (1993) Fractionation of nitrogen isotopes by glutamine synthetase isolated from spinach leaves. Plant Cell Physiol 34: 489-491
65. Yoneyama T, Matsumaru T, Usui K, Engelaar WMHG (2001) Discrimination of nitrogen isotopes during absorption of ammonium and nitrate at different nitrogen concentrations by rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants. Plant Cell Environ 24: 133-139