Photosynthetic responses and N allocation in Douglas-fir needles following a brief pulse of nutrients

Tree Physiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 601-608

  Warren, C R ^a,b   Livingston, N J ^a   Turpin, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allocation; Chlorophyll; Growth; Nitrogen; Non protein nitrogen; Nutrient pulse; Partitioning; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Rubisco; Soluble protein

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; NUTRIENT USE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 9244253736     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/24.6.601     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Brix, H. 1981. Effects of nitrogen fertilizer source and application rates on foliar nitrogen concentration, photosynthesis, and growth of Douglas-fir. Can. J. For. Res. 11:775-780.
2. Camm, E. 1993. Photosynthetic responses in developing and year-old Douglas-fir needles during new shoot development. Trees 8:61-66.
3. Carraro, U., D. Doria, C. Rizzi and M. Sandri. 1994. A new two-step precipitation method removes free SDS and thiol reagents from diluted solutions, and then allows recovery and quantitation of proteins. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 200:916-924.
4. Catt, J.W. and P. Millard. 1988. The measurement of ribulose-1,5- bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase concentration in the leaves of potato plants by enzyme linked immunosorbent assays. J. Exp. Bot. 39:157-164.
5. Chapin, III, F.S. 1980. The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 11:233-260.
6. Durzan, D.J. and F.C. Steward. 1967. The nitrogen metabolism of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss and Pinus banksiana Lamb. as influenced by mineral nutrition. Can. J. Bot. 45:695-710.
7. Edfast, A.-B., T. Näsholm and A. Ericsson. 1990. Free amino acids in needles of Norway spruce and Scots pine trees on different sites in areas with two levels of nitrogen deposition. Can. J. For. Res. 20: 1132-1136.
8. 3 plants. Oecologia 78:9-19.
9. Evans, J.R. and J.R. Seemann. 1989. The allocation of protein N in the photosynthetic apparatus: costs, consequences, and control. In Photosynthesis. Ed. W.R. Briggs. Alan R. Liss, New York, pp 183-205.
10. Field, C. and H.A. Mooney. 1986. The photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship in wild plants. In On the Economy of Form and Function. Ed. T.J. Givnish. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 25-55.
11. Gessel, S.P., D.W. Cole and B.C. Steinbrenner. 1973. Nitrogen balances in forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. Soil Biol. Biochem. 5:19-34.
12. Grime, J.P. 1988. Competitive plant ecology: a functional approach to common British species. Unwin Hyman, London, 742 p.
13. Hawkins, B.J. and G. Henry. 1999. Nutrition and bud removal affect biomass and nutrient allocation in Douglas-fir and western red cedar. Tree Physiol. 19:197-203.
14. Hawkins, B.J., G. Henry and S.B.R. Kiiskila. 1998. Biomass and nutrient allocation in Douglas-fir and amabilis fir seedlings: influence of growth rate and nutrition. Tree Physiol. 18:803-810.
15. Kang, S.-M. and J.S. Titus. 1980. Qualitative and quantitative changes in nitrogen compounds in senescing leaf and bark tissue of the apple. Physiol. Plant. 50:285-290.
16. Laverman, A.M., H.R. Zoomer, H.W. van Verseveld and H.A. Verhoef. 2000. Temporal and spatial variation of nitrogen transformations in a coniferous forest soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 32: 1661-1670.
17. Lavoie, N., L.-P. Vézina and H.A. Margolis. 1992. Absorption and assimilation of nitrate and ammonium ions by jack pine seedlings. Tree Physiol. 11:171-183.
18. Lodge, D.J., W.H. McDowell and C.P. McSwiney. 1994. The importance of nutrient pulses in tropical forests. Trends Ecol. Evol. 9: 384-387.
19. Martin, F., M. Chamardin and P. Gadal. 1981. Nitrate assimilation and nitrogen circulation in Austrian pine. Physiol. Plant. 53:105-110.
20. Marschner, H. 1986. Mineral nutrition of higher plants. Academic Press, London, 674.
21. Millard, P. 1988. The accumulation and storage of nitrogen by herbaceous plants. Plant Cell Environ. 11:1-8.
22. Mitchell, A.K. and T.M. Hinckley. 1993. Effects foliar nitrogen on photosynthesis and water use efficiency in Douglas-fir. Tree Physiol. 12:403-410.
23. Myers, D.A., R.B. Thomas and E.H. DeLucia. 1999. Photosynthetic responses of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) needles to experimental reduction in sink demand. Tree Physiol. 19:235-242.
24. Näsholm, T. and A. Ericsson. 1990. Seasonal changes in amino acids, protein and total nitrogen in needles of fertilized Scots pine trees. Tree Physiol. 6:267-281.
25. Ripullone, F., G. Grassi, M. Lauteri and M. Borghetti. 2003. Photosynthesis-nitrogen relationships: interpretation of different patterns between Pseudotsuga menziesii and Populus x euroamericana in a mini-stand experiment. Tree Physiol. 23:137-144.
26. Stitt, M. and E.-D. Schulze. 1994. Does Rubisco control the rate of photosynthesis and plant growth? An exercise in molecular ecophysiology. Plant Cell Environ. 17:465-487.
27. Turner, D.P., P. Sollins, M. Leuking and N. Rudd. 1993. Availability and uptake of inorganic nitrogen in a mixed old-growth coniferous forest. Plant Soil 148:163-174.
28. Vitousek, P.M., J.R. Gosz, C.C. Grier, J.M. Melillo and W.A. Reiners. 1982. A comparative analysis of potential nitrification and nitrate mobility in forest ecosystems. Ecol. Monogr. 52:155-177.
29. Warren, C.R. and M.A. Adams. 2002. P affects growth and partitioning of N to Rubisco in Pinus pinaster. Tree Physiol. 22:11-19.
30. Warren, C.R., M.A. Adams and Z. Chen. 2000. Is photosynthesis related to concentration of nitrogen and Rubisco in leaves of Australian native plants? Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 27:407-416.
31. 15N labeled nutrients. Tree Physiol. 23:1193-1200.
32. Warren, C.R., N.J. Livingston and D.H. Turpin. 2003b. Responses of gas exchange to reversible changes in whole-plant transpiration rate in two conifer species. Tree Physiol. 23:793-803.
33. Warren, C.R., G.J. Ethier, N.J. Livingston, N.J. Grant, D.H. Turpin, D.L. Harrison and TA. Black. 2003c. Transfer conductance in second growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) canopies. Plant Cell Environ. 26:1215-1227.
34. Wellburn, A.R. 1994. The spectral determination of chlorophylls a and b, as well as total carotenoids, using various solvents with spectrophotometers of different resolution. J. Plant Physiol. 144: 307-313.
35. Wessel, D. and U.I. Flügge. 1984. A method for the quantitative recovery of protein in dilute solution in the presence of detergents and lipids. Anal. Biochem. 138:141-143.
36. Wetzel, S., C. Demmers and J.S. Greenwood. 1989. Seasonally fluctuating bark proteins are a potential form of nitrogen storage in three temperate hardwoods. Planta 178:275-281.
37. 3 plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 39:533-594.