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Tag - non-structural carbohydrates
Fi Gennu
The economic spectrum of plant carbohydrate storage is blurred
The study implies that the generally overlooked role of storage within the plant economic spectrum represents an important dimension of plant strategy.
Not All Pine Needles Are Identical: Lower Crown Loss in Pinus radiata
When fungal infection comes to Pinus radiata, it can run through the bottom of the crown of the tree, removing its leaves. What effect does this defoliation have when it occurs? Mireia Gomez-Gallego and colleagues...
Modelling tiller growth and mortality as a sink-driven process using Ecomeristem
Plant modelling can efficiently support ideotype conception, particularly in multi-criteria selection contexts. This is the case for biomass sorghum, implying the need to consider traits related to biomass production...
Alex Assiry
Sink-source imbalance and down-regulation of photosynthesis
Sink-source imbalance could cause accumulation of total non-structural carbohydrates (TNC) and down-regulation of photosynthesis. Sugiura et al. investigate how sink-source imbalance causes photosynthetic down...
Non-structural carbohydrate dynamics in shrubland under drought-induced die-off
The relationship between plant carbon economy and drought responses of co-occurring woody species can be assessed by comparing carbohydrate (C) dynamics following drought and rain periods, relating these dynamics to...
botanyone
Growing after attack: what predicts tree responses to herbivores?
Trees can face significant threats from herbivores, particularly ones that defoliate (i.e. eat leaves and reduce leaf area). After being attacked by defoliators, trees can respond by changing their growth patterns and...
Joseph Stinziano
Global warming may reduce plant nectar yield
Although flower nectar yield is well known to be temperature dependent, the effects of climate change on the availability of nectar to pollinators have rarely been studied. Asymmetric warming is one of the...
Defoliation, tree growth and storage of C and N
Although lenga beech trees, completely defoliated by caterpillars of Ormiscodes amphimone, do not die, they show reduced growth for at least 2 years.
Post-harvest transcriptional changes in onion
During the transition from endo- to eco-dormancy and subsequent growth, the bulb of onion (Allium cepa) changes from a sink organ to a source, but the mechanisms controlling these processes are not fully understood...
Growth and carbon budgets in Nothofagus
Growth decline with age in trees is hypothesized to be an effect of carbon limitation. By assessing carbon reserves and isotopes at different ontogenetic stages in the deciduous broadleaf tree Nothofagus pumilio (lenga...
