Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, soil nutrients and water conditions on photosynthetic and growth responses of Alnus hirsuta
Hiroyuki Tobita A B D , Akira Uemura B , Mitsutoshi Kitao A , Satoshi Kitaoka B , Yutaka Maruyama B C and Hajime Utsugi B
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A Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-8687, Japan.
B Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Sapporo 062-8516, Japan.
C Forestry Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Chiyoda 100-8952, Japan.
D Corresponding author. Email: tobi@ffpri.affrc.go.jp
This paper originates from a presentation at the 16th International Meeting on Frankia and Actinorhizal Plants, Oporto, Portugal, 5–8 September 2010.
Functional Plant Biology 38(9) 702-710 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP11024
Submitted: 22 January 2011 Accepted: 20 June 2011 Published: 16 August 2011
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to clarify the effects of multiple environmental conditions, elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) and soil conditions on the physiological and morphological properties of Alnus hirsuta Turcz., an N2-fixing species, to predict its responses to environmental changes. We examined the responses of photosynthetic properties, leaf characteristics, biomass and N allocation of A. hirsuta to elevated [CO2], soil N and phosphorus availability, and soil drought by using the results of two experiments. The effects of P availability were more marked than those of N availability and soil drought. The photosynthetic responses of A. hirsuta to elevated [CO2] under high P were considered to be ‘photosynthetic acclimation’, while A. hirsuta presented the obvious ‘photosynthetic downregulation’ to elevated [CO2] under low P. Soil P availability affected the growth responses to elevated [CO2] through effects on these photosynthetic properties and biomass allocation. Though elevated [CO2] caused no marked change in the allometric relationships in biomass, with some exceptions, the responses of N allocation among tissue to elevated [CO2] differed from those of biomass allocation. These results suggest that it is necessary to evaluate N mass allocation as well as biomass when we consider the N2-fixing ability of Alnus under elevated [CO2].
Additional keywords: actinorhizal plants, Frankia, Jmax, top to root ratio, total non-structural carbohydrate, Vcmax.
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