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- Title
Growth, gas exchange and water use efficiency of the facultative hemiparasite Rhinanthus minor associated with hosts differing in foliar nitrogen concentration.
- Authors
Seel, W. E.; Cooper, R. E.; Press, M. C.
- Abstract
The facultative hemiparasitic angiosperm Rhinanthus minor was grown on 11 different host species, and in the absence of a host. The height of R. minor parasitising the legume Trifolium pratense exceeded that of unattached plants by more than an order of magnitude, with performance on grasses and non‐legume dicotlyedonous hosts between these two extremes. Light saturated rates of photosynthesis in R. minor on different hosts ranged from 1. 5 to 22. 5 μmol g−1 dry weight min−1, and were positively correlated with growth. Foliar nitrogen concentrations in the parasite exceeded those of the hosts. The former were positively related to light saturated rates of photosynthesis, and inversely related to photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency. There was no relationship between leaf nitrogen concentration and water use efficiency in R. minor. The data are discussed in relation to studies of nitrogen and water use in mistletoes.
- Subjects
PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; MISTLETOES; RED clover; GASES from plants; EFFECT of light on plants
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 1993, Vol 89, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3054.1993.tb01787.x