Foliar water uptake as a source of hydrogen and oxygen in plant biomass.
Foliar water uptake as a source of hydrogen and oxygen in plant biomass.
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10.1093/treephys/tpac055
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2022-11-08
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4
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Introductory biology lessons around the world typically teach that plants absorb water through their roots, but, unfortunately, absorption of water through leaves and subsequent transport and use of this water for biomass formation remains a field limited mostly to specialists. Recent studies have identified foliar water uptake as a significant net water source for terrestrial plants. The growing interest in the development of a new model that includes both foliar water uptake (in liquid form) and root water uptake to explain hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in leaf water and tree rings demands a method for distinguishing between these two water sources. Therefore, in this study, I have devised a new labelling method that utilizes two different water sources, one enriched in deuterium (HDO + D2O; δD = 7.0 × 10 4‰, δ18O = 4.1‰) and one enriched in oxygen-18 (H218O; δD = −85‰, δ18O = 1.1 × 104‰), to simultaneously label both foliar-absorbed and root-absorbed water and quantify their relative contributions to plant biomass. Using this new method, I here present evidence that, in the case of well-watered Cryptomeria japonica D. Don, hydrogen and oxygen incorporated into new leaf cellulose in the rainy season derives mostly from foliar-absorbed water (69% from foliar-absorbed water and 31% from root-absorbed water), while that of new root cellulose derives mostly from root-absorbed water (20% from foliar-absorbed water and 80% from root-absorbed water), and new branch xylem is somewhere in between (55% from foliar-absorbed water and 45% from root-absorbed water). The dual-labelling method first implemented in this study enables separate and simultaneous labelling of foliar-absorbed and root-absorbed water and offers a new tool to study the uptake, transport and assimilation processes of these waters in terrestrial plants. Suggested modification to photosynthesis diagrams. Before: a typical photosynthesis image shows only root water uptake as a source of hydrogen and oxygen in plant biomass. After: suggested modification shows foliar water uptake also as a source. This is the first study that quantifies relative contributions of hydrogen and oxygen from foliar-absorbed water and root-absorbed water to hydrogen and oxygen in plant biomass, and offers the first clear experimental evidence that a significant proportion of hydrogen and oxygen in the biomass (such as hydrogen and oxygen in cellulose) originates from foliar-absorbed water.
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4.6
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