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PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 275-291Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00309.x
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Amino acid transporter; ammonium transporter; arginine; BSP; drought; floodplain forest; glutamine; heat; N cycling; N mobilisation; N storage; N uptake; nitrate tranporter; salt stress; storage protein; VSP
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Many forest ecosystems have evolved at sites with growth-limiting nitrogen (N) availability, low N input from external sources and high ecosystem internal cycling of N. By contrast, many poplar species are frequent constituents of floodplain forests where they are exposed to a significant ecosystem external supply of N, mainly nitrate, in the moving water table. Therefore, nitrate is much more important for N nutrition of these poplar species than for many other tree species. We summarise current knowledge of nitrate uptake and its regulation by tree internal signals, as well as acquisition of ammonium and organic N from the soil. Unlike herbaceous plants, N nutrition of trees is sustained by seasonal, tree internal cycling. Recent advances in the understanding of seasonal storage and mobilisation in poplar bark and regulation of these processes by temperature and daylength are addressed. To explore consequences of global climate change on N nutrition of poplar trees, responses of N uptake and metabolism to increased atmospheric CO2 and O-3 concentrations, increased air and soil temperatures, drought and salt stress are highlighted.
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