Integrating plant functioning at organ scale can simulate the phenotypic plasticity of plants.
Tag - carbon
Rachel Shekar
Effect of simulated warming on Leymus chinensis grasslands of northeast China
Mean global temperatures have risen by almost 1°C since 1850 and are predicted to continue to rise through to the end of the century. Understanding how grasses are affected by a long-term increase in temperature is...
William Salter
Investigating the diet of carnivorous plants
Earlier this year we reported on how it looked like bladderworts were farming their food, as much as hunting it. A paper submitted before those came out adds to the story, by examining the 'trophic level' of bladderwort...
Alun Salt
FSPM-based investigation of plant interactions in complex wheat canopies
Functional–structural plant models (FSPMs) explicitly describe individual plant architecture, making this approach suitable for unravelling plant–plant interactions in complex canopies. Barillot et al. developed a...
Alex Assiry
Trading food for water – trees exude more carbon under drought stress
Plants secrete carbon compounds into soils through their roots, affecting microbes in such a way that nutrient availability in the soil can increase. This root exudation can cost over 10% of the carbon fixed through...
Joseph Stinziano
Tree seedling growth capacity under climate change
Predicting the effects of climate change on tree species and communities is critical for understanding the future state of our forested ecosystems. In a recent study published in AoB PLANTS, Rodgers et al. used a fully...
AoBPLANTS
An orchid with a partially mycoheterotrophic taste for truffles
Partially mycoheterotrophic nutrition is a widespread trophic strategy in green-leaved Orchidaceae species in forest habitats. Owing to the light limitation of their habitats, many forest orchids meet carbon demands...
botanyone
New forms of: Carbon, water and photosynthesis
Somewhat disappointingly, this ‘three for the price of one’ item is not about plants – neither exclusively nor even specifically. However, since it deals with matters that are fundamental to all life on Earth (including...
Nigel Chaffey
Simulating carbon and nitrogen patterns using an integrated model of wheat functioning
Based on a mechanistic approach, the CN-Wheat model simulates the fluxes of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) metabolites in wheat plants after anthesis. Barillot et al. show that the CN-Wheat model can be used to predict...
A process-based model of C and N metabolism in the wheat culm
Linking traits and metabolic processes to whole plant performance results in improved crops. Barillot et al., present CN-Wheat, a comprehensive and mechanistic model of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) metabolism within...
Saprotrophic fungi and fully mycoheterotrophic orchids
This study identifies saprotrophic mycorrhizal fungi for seven mycoheterotrophic orchid species growing in four humid and warm subtropical forests in Taiwan
Spotlight on macronutrients : Carbon (mainly)
Whilst members of the Plant Kingdom might dominate terrestrial biomes, non-Plant Kingdom members are the major photosynthetic organisms in aquatic habitats
Nutrient acquisition by orchid mycorrhiza
Results suggest that orchid mycorrhizal fungi can differentiate between niches in a constrained, highly resource-limited environment.
Stochastic modelling in ecosystems – progress but we are not there yet
Modelling of processes lets one understand the functions of interacting components, helps to identify parts of processes, and can predict outcomes of changes in the system. Unfortunately, what was a major area of...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison