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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 165, Issue 1, Pages 157-169Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01204.x
Keywords
carbon partitioning; carbonic anhydrase; dissolved inorganic carbon; growth; Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato); nitrate reductase; phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase
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Understanding of the influences of root-zone CO2 concentration on nitrogen (N) metabolism is limited. The influences of root-zone CO2 concentration on growth, N uptake, N metabolism and the partitioning of root assimilated C-14 were determined in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Root, but not leaf, nitrate reductase activity was increased in plants supplied with increased root-zone CO2. Root phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity was lower with NO3-- than with NH4+-nutrition, and in the latter, was also suppressed by increased root-zone CO2. Increased growth rate in NO3--fed plants with elevated root-zone CO2 concentrations was associated with transfer of root-derived organic acids to the shoot and conversion to carbohydrates. With NH4+-fed plants, growth and total N were not altered by elevated root-zone CO2 concentrations, although C-14 partitioning to amino acid synthesis was increased. Effects of root-zone CO2 concentration on N uptake and metabolism over longer periods (> 1 d) were probably limited by feedback inhibition. Root-derived organic acids contributed to the carbon budget of the leaves through decarboxylation of the organic acids and photosynthetic refixation of released CO2.
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