Stored carbon partly fuels fine-root respiration but is not used for production of new fine roots

New Phytologist

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 420-430

  Lynch, Douglas J ^a   Matamala, Roser ^b   Iversen, Colleen M ^c   Norby, Richard J ^c   Gonzalez Meler, Miquel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

13 C; Fine roots; Free air CO2 enrichment (FACE); Liquidambar styraciflua; Post carboxylation fractionation; Root respiration; Root turnover; Stored carbon (C)

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FINE ROOT; GROWING SEASON; HETEROGENEITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION; TURNOVER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL RESPIRATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIQUIDAMBAR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CELL RESPIRATION; LIQUIDAMBAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS;

LIQUIDAMBAR; LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA;

EID: 84879690298     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12290     Document Type: Article

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