Nitrogen sources for current-year shoot growth in 50-year-old sessile oak trees: An in situ 15N labeling approach

Tree Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1390-1400

  El Zein, Rana ^a,b   Bréda, Nathalie ^b   Gérant, Dominique ^a   Zeller, Bernd ^c   Maillard, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b LERFoB   (France)

^c Centre INRA de Nancy   (France)

Author keywords

nitrogen partitioning; nutrient uptake; Quercus petraea; remobilization; shoot development; spring growth

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ABSORPTION; DICOTYLEDON; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHLOEM; REMOBILIZATION; SHOOT GROWTH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOWER; FRANCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OAK; PHLOEM; PLANT; PLANT EXUDATE; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FLOWERS; FRANCE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LINEAR MODELS; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PHLOEM; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT SHOOTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; QUERCUS; SOIL; WATER;

EID: 84055184659     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpr118     Document Type: Article

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