Silicon nutrition increases grain yield, which, in turn, exerts a feed-forward stimulation of photosynthetic rates via enhanced mesophyll conductance and alters primary metabolism in rice

New Phytologist

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 752-762

  Detmann, Kelly C ^a   Araújo, Wagner L ^a   Martins, Samuel C V ^a   Sanglard, Lílian M V P ^a   Reis, Josimar V ^a   Detmann, Edenio ^a   Rodrigues, Fabrício Á ^a   Nunes Nesi, Adriano ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^b   Damatta, Fábio M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mesophyll conductance; Metabolic profiling; Photosynthesis; Rice (Oryza sativa); Silicon (Si); Source sink manipulation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; SILICON;

AGRONOMY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CROP YIELD; GAS EXCHANGE; METABOLISM; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REMOBILIZATION; RICE; SILICON; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CROP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MESOPHYLL CELL; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PLANT STOMA; RICE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLASTS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MESOPHYLL CELLS; METABOLOME; NITROGEN; ORYZA SATIVA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEEDS; SILICON;

EID: 84867344273     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04299.x     Document Type: Article

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