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- Title
Ammonium and nitrate uptake, nitrogen productivity and biomass allocation in interior spruce families with contrasting growth rates and mineral nutrient preconditioning.
- Authors
MILLER, BRAD D.; HAWKINS, BARBARA J.
- Abstract
Four full-sib families of interior spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) × Picea engelmanii Parry ex Engelm.) with contrasting growth rates (two fast-growing and two slow-growing families) were grown aeroponically with either a 2% relative nitrogen addition rate or free access to nitrogen. Fast-growing families showed greater plasticity in allocating biomass to shoots at high nitrogen supply and to roots at low nitrogen supply than slow-growing families. Compared with the slow-growing families, short-term net ammonium uptake rate measured with an ion selective electrode was significantly greater in fast-growing families at high ammonium supply, but not at low supply. Net nitrate uptake showed the same trend, but differences among families were not significant. Results indicate that differences in seedling growth rate are partly a result of physiological differences in net nitrogen uptake efficiency and nitrogen productivity.
- Subjects
AMMONIUM; NITRATES; WHITE spruce; NITROGEN; ELECTRODES
- Publication
Tree Physiology, 2007, Vol 27, Issue 6, p901
- ISSN
0829-318X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/treephys/27.6.901