Nitrogen transfer between plants:: A 15N natural abundance study with crop and weed species
Nitrogen transfer between plants:: A 15N natural abundance study with crop and weed species
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DOI:
10.1007/s11104-005-3081-y
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发表时间:
2006-04-01
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4.9
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Rufty, T. W.
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Moyer-Henry, K. A.;Burton, J. W.;Rufty, T. W.
An increasing amount of evidence indicates that N can be transferred between plants. Nonetheless, a number of fundamental questions remain. A series of experiments was initiated in the field to examine N transfer between N-2-fixing soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) varieties and a non-nodulating soybean, and between N-2-fixing peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) or soybean and neighboring weed species. The experiments were conducted in soils with low N fertilities and used differences in N accumulation and/or N-15 natural abundance to estimate N transfer. Mixtures of N-2-fixing and non-nod soybean indicated that substantial inter-plant N transfer occurred. Amounts were variable, ranging from negligible levels to 48% of the N found in the non-nod at maturity. Transfer did not appear to strongly penalize the N-2-fixing donor plants. But, in cases where high amounts of N were transferred, N content of donors was noticeably lowered. Differences were evident in the amount of N transferred from different N-2-fixing donor genotypes. Results of experiments with N-2-fixing crops and the weed species prickly sida (Sida spinosa L.) and sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia [L.] Irwin & Barneby) also indicated substantial N transfer occurred over a 60-day period, with amounts accounting for 30-80% of the N present in the weeds. Transfer of N, however, was generally very low in weed species that are known to be non-hosts for arbuscular mycorrhizae (yellow nutsedge, Cyperus esculentus L. and Palmer amaranth, Amaranthus palmeri [S.] Watson). The results are consistent with the view that N transfer occurs primarily through mycorrhizal hyphal networks, and they reveal that N transfer may be a contributing factor to weed problems in N-2-fixing crops in low N fertility conditions.