Nitrogen from senescing lower leaves of common bean is re-translocated to nodules and might be involved in a N-feedback regulation of nitrogen fixation
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Nitrogen from senescing lower leaves of common bean is re-translocated to nodules and might be involved in a N-feedback regulation of nitrogen fixation
Fischinger, S. A.; Drevon, J.-J.; Claassen, N. & Schulze, J. (2006)
Journal of Plant Physiology, 163(10) pp. 987-995. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2006.03.017
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- Fischinger, Stephanie Anastasia; Drevon, Jean-Jacques; Claassen, Norbert; Schulze, Joachim
- Abstract
- The objective of the present study was to elucidate whether remobilized N from lower leaves is involved in causing the drop in N-2 fixation during pod-filling in common bean (Phoseolus vulgaris L). Moreover, we addressed the question of whether remobilized N from lower Leaves would reach the nodules. Nodulated common bean plants were grown in a growth chamber in quartz sand. During a 2-week period, at vegetative and at reproductive growth, 50% of the Leaves (lower part) were either excised or individually darkened, thereby removing the same photosynthetic capacity yet allowing N to be remobilized from the darkened leaves. Moreover, at the vegetative growth period, three lower leaves per plants were N-15 labelled by applying (NH4NO3)-N-15 prior to imposing the darkening treatment. Leaf darkening at vegetative growth induced N remobilization as welt as reduced N-2-fixation rates and growth. Leaf excision at reproductive growth enhanced N-2 fixation. Changes in N-2-fixation rates were in all cases the result of altered growth rates, white the % N in the whole plant and in various plant parts remained conserved. Directly after leaf labetting, but also at the end of the vegetative growth period, substantial amounts of N-15 from the leaves could be recovered in nodules in the control, and in higher amounts in the leaf-darkening treatment. It is proposed that nitrogen from leaves circulates within the plant via nodules, and that the strength or composition of this circular flow may be the signal for a putative N-feedback effect. (c) 2006 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
- Issue Date
- 2006
- Journal
- Journal of Plant Physiology
- Organization
- Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften ; Department für Nutzpflanzenwissenschaften ; Abteilung Pflanzenernährung und Ertragsphysiologie
- Working Group
- Aufgabengebiet Agrikulturchemie
- ISSN
- 0176-1617