Plasticity in relative growth rate after a reduction in nitrogen availability is related to root morphological and physiological responses
Annals of Botany, ISSN: 0305-7364, Vol: 106, Issue: 4, Page: 617-625
2010
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Article Description
Background and Aims: To maximize growth and fitness a plant must adjust its phenotype by an amount and speed that matches changes in nitrogen availability. To determine how plastic ontogenetic changes in root physiological and morphological traits interact and whether or not these responses are likely to maximize growth, ontogenetic changes in relative growth rate (RGR, proportional rate of change of plant dry mass), unit root rate (URR, rate of change of plant dry mass per unit root length or area), specific root length (SRL, root length per dry root mass), specific root area (SRA, root area per dry root mass), and other root traits before and after a decrease in nitrogen supply, were studied in ten herbaceous species. Methods: Plants of each species were grown in hydroponic culture under controlled conditions in a control treatment where the supply of nitrogen remained constant at 1 mm, and in a stress treatment where the nitrogen supply was abruptly reduced from 1 to 0·01 mm during the growth period. Key Results and Conclusions: In the treatment series the number of bifurcations per root area and per root length, specific root area (SRA) and length (SRL), areal (URR) and length-based (URR) unit root rate and RGR decreased, and root tissue density increased relative to the control. Species having greater plasticity in the percentage decrease in SRA at the end of the experiment also had smaller reductions in RGR; plasticity in SRA is therefore adaptive. In contrast, species which showed a greater reduction in URR and in the number of bifurcations per root area and per root length, showed stronger reductions in RGR; plasticity in URR and in the number of bifurcations per root area and per root length is therefore not adaptive. The plastic responses observed in SRA, SRL and in root tissue density constitute a set of plastic adjustments that would lead to resource conservation in response nutrient stress. © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. All rights reserved.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=77957552426&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcq144; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20639301; https://academic.oup.com/aob/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/aob/mcq144; https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcq144; https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/106/4/617/107106
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