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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 67, Issue 14, Pages 2561-2566Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00109-1
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The oxygen-18 signal of soil and leaf water are both recorded in heterotrophically synthesized. plant stem cellulose. Presently, these signals can only be teased apart with modeling and assumptions on the nature of the isotopic enrichment of leaf water. A method by which these two signals are chemically separated and analyzed is tested here. Heterotrophically synthesized cellulose from germinating seeds having a-mixture of isotopic signals from the reserve carbohydrate (starch) and that of the water during cellulose; synthesis was hydrolyzed and the resulting glucose converted to glucose phenylosazone. The analysis of the O-18/O-16 ratios of cellulose and of glucose phenylosazone were used to calculate the oxygen isotope ratio of the oxygen attached to the second carbon of the glucose moieties of the cellulose molecule. The calculated delta(18)O value of this oxygen was highly correlated with that of the water available for cellulose synthesis showing a nearly one-to-one relationship (slope = 1.027) and leading to the conclusion that it completely exchanges with water during heterotrophic cellulose synthesis. Once this method is refined so as to increase precision, it will be possible to derive the delta(18)O values of soil water available to plants from the oxygen isotope analysis of stem cellulose and its derivative. Copyright (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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