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PLANT AND SOIL
Volume 322, Issue 1-2, Pages 91-99Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-9897-0
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Dark respiration; Net assimilation rate; Net photosynthetic rate; P utilization efficiency; Starch content
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Observed genotypic difference in P utilization efficiency in soil grown potatoes led to the present study to investigate possible mechanisms of P utilization efficiency in potato genotypes grown in nutrient solution under three P regimes (low, medium and high). For all genotypes relative growth rate (RGR), leaf P content, net assimilation rate (NAR) and leaf area ratio (LAR) increased while P utilization efficiency and leaf starch content decreased at the two higher P regimes compared to the low P regime. The P-efficient genotypes CGN 17903 and CIP 384321.3 had higher RGR compared to the P-inefficient genotypes CGN 22367 and CGN 18233, which resulted from enhanced NAR rather than from LAR. Net photosynthetic rate was similar for all genotypes. However, for P-inefficient genotype CGN 22367, the lower NAR could be explained by increased leaf dark respiration. For P-inefficient genotype CGN 18233 we speculate that increased carbon cost of root respiration or exudation or both, caused low NAR, since leaf dark respiration of this genotype was similar to that of P-efficient genotypes.
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