How fresh is maple syrup? Sugar maple trees mobilize carbon stored several years previously during early springtime sap-ascent

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1410-1416

  Muhr, Jan ^a   Messier, Christian ^b,c   Delagrange, Sylvain ^c   Trumbore, Susan ^a,d   Xu, Xiaomei ^d   Hartmann, Henrik ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bomb radiocarbon approach; Nonstructural carbon (NSC) pool; Reserve carbon (C) mobilization; Springtime sap production; Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; INSECT; PLANT EXTRACT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAP FLOW; SPRING (SEASON); STARVATION; TURNOVER;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; HEXAPODA;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; PLANT EXUDATE;

ACER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EXUDATE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEASON; TREE; XYLEM;

ACER; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; PLANT EXUDATES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEASONS; TREES; XYLEM;

EID: 84969376988     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13782     Document Type: Article

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