Integrating plant functioning at organ scale can simulate the phenotypic plasticity of plants.
Tag - nitrogen
Rachel Shekar
Seminal roots help maize grab nutrients
When humans selected for bigger seeds in maize, they may have also unintentionally improved its root system.
Fi Gennu
Improving roots for crops could improve habitats for wildlife
New research finds that root capturing more nutrients could help wildlife breathe many miles away.
Alun Salt
Connecting soil nitrogen and gypsy moth herbivory in a US oak forest
Can a better understanding of ecosystem nitrogen cycling allow us to more accurately predict invasive insect outbreaks?
William Salter
How much nitrogen does rice need to produce high yields?
Researchers use 3D modelling of rice canopies to determine how nitrogen availability affects photosynthetic productivity.
Optimising photosynthetic resource distributions to improve wheat yield
How does the optimality of photosynthetic resource distribution relative to light availability vary across a wheat population?
Aging Mosses Can Be Nitrogen Sinks: Tracking Tissue Nitrogen During Senescence
Old or dying leaves move nutrients to living tissues (i.e. resorption) but some nutrients remain in the dying tissues and are recycled in the environment via decomposition. One of the nutrients involved in resorption...
Juniper Kiss
Regulatory effect of phosphorus and nitrogen on nodulation and plant performance of shrubby legumes
The four species showed similar patterns in their absorption and use of phosphorus and nitrogen.
Mutualistic relationship between mangrove plants and diazotrophs
Trees need nitrogen. When they shed leaves with all the nitrogen in them it would be a big loss, were it not for the army of creepy-crawlies that recycle the leaves back into the soil. Life is tougher for mangroves. At...
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...
Is auxin behind adventitious root formation in petunia cuttings?
Yes, but you'll need nitrogen and somewhere dark.
How important is meat to a curious carnivorous plant?
Drosophyllum lusitanicum, also known as the Portuguese sundew or dewy pine, is unusual even for carnivorous plants in that it lives in dry environments. Typically, carnivorous plants live in nutrient-poor wetlands, so...
Ecophysiology of early lineage vascular plants
Tropical understory communities are highly diverse, and plants in these environments must optimize functional traits to ensure ecological and evolutionary success. Campany et al. survey the ecophysiology of two spore...
Alex Assiry
The modelling, allocation and redistribution of biomass
Evaluation of a generic biomass partitioning model demonstrates accurate temporal patterns of biomass and nitrogen partitioning.
