RESPIRATION OF CROP SPECIES UNDER CO-2 ENRICHMENT
RESPIRATION OF CROP SPECIES UNDER CO-2 ENRICHMENT
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1399-3054.1985.tb02309.x
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
MORISON, JIL
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作者:
GIFFORD, RM;LAMBERS, H;MORISON, JIL
Respiratory characteristics of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ''Gabo'' and''WW15''), mung bean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek ''Celera'') and sunflower (Helianthus annuus L. ''Sunfola'') were studied in plants grown under a normal CO2 concentrations and in air containing an additional 340 (or 250) .mu.l l-1 Co2. Such an increase in global atmospheric CO2 concentration is forecast for about the middle of the next century. The aim was to measure the effect of high CO2 on respiration and its components. Polarographic and, with wheat, CO2 exchange techniques were used. The capacity of the alternative pathway of respiration in roots was determined polarographically in the presence of 0.1 mM KCN. The actual rate of alternative pathway respiration was assessed by reduction in O2 consumption caused by 10 mM salicylhydroxamic acid. Each species responded differently. In wheat, growth in high atmospheric CO2 was associated with up to 5% reduction in respiration by both roots and whole plants. Use of respiratory inhibitors of polarographic measurements on wheat roots implicated reduction in the degree of engagement of the alternative pathway as a major contributor to this reduced respiratory activity of high-CO2 plants. No change was found in the total sugar content per until wheat root dry weight was a result of high CO2. In none of the species was there an increase in the absolute, or relative, contribution by the alternative pathway to total respiration of the root systems. Thus the improved photosynthetic assimilate supply of plants grown in high CO2 did not lead to increased diversion of C through the non-phosphorylating alternative pathway of respiration in the root. In wheat grown in high CO2 the reduced loss of C through that route must have contributed to their larger dry weight.