Photosynthetic acclimation of plants to growth irradiance: the relative importance of specific leaf area and nitrogen partitioning in maximizing carbon gain

By John R. Evans, Hendrik Poorter. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. U. Niinemets
2. L. Sack
3. I. Wright
4. Peter B. Reich
5. Hendrik Poorter
6. P. Grubb
7. Eric Garnier
8. Bill Shipley

In Molecular Biology

1. U. Niinemets
2. L. Sack
3. P. Grubb
4. Nathan G. McDowell
5. M. Uribelarrea
6. F. Below
7. I. Wright
8. Hendrik Poorter

In Plant Science

1. U. Niinemets
2. L. Sack
3. Peter B. Reich
4. Eric Garnier
5. P. Grubb
6. C. Körner
7. I. Wright
8. M. Uribelarrea

Citations in the corpus

• Photosynthesis, carboxylation and leaf nitrogen responses of 16 species to elevated pCO2 across four free‐air CO2 enrichment experiments in forest, grassland and desert (2004, background): “For trees and shrubs, the strong correlation between the apparent fraction of leaf N allocated to Rubisco with Ma (Fig. 6) may represent increasing mesophyll limitations in leaves with higher Ma (Reich et al., 1998; Evans & Poorter, 2001 ), which may lead to growth form differences in the intercept”
• Physiological N response of field-grown maize hybrids (Zea mays L.) with divergent yield potential and grain protein concentration (2009, background): “Photosynthetic N use efficiency is determined in large part by specific leaf weight (SLW) and by the allocation of leaf N to photosynthetic enzymes (Poorter and Evans 1998; Evans and Poorter 2001).”
• Anatomical basis of the change in leaf mass per area and nitrogen investment with relative irradiance within the canopy of eight temperate tree species (2004, background): “Therefore, we must take into account the importance in the long term of developing crowns with a high range of LMA values which allow an optimum capture of light, even at a low light availability (Evans and Poorter, 2001).”
• The functional morphology of juvenile plants tolerant of strong summer drought in shaded forest understories in southern Spain (2003, background): “…indication that the commonly described increase in the chlorophyll:nitrogen ratio in shade leaves (e.g. Björkman and Holmgren (1963) and Seemann et al. (1987), Evans (1989), Kull and Niinemets (1998), Evans and Poorter (2001)) does not necessarily involve biochemical modulation of Chl/mass.”
• A global scale mechanistic model of photosynthetic capacity (LUNA V1.0) (2016, methodology): “In view that the light absorption rate is generally around 80 % (Evans and Poorter, 2001), we set the nitrogen for light capture as 0.2 based on Eq.”
• Effects of shading on morphology, physiology and grain yield of winter wheat (2010, background): “Reduction in light intensity and changes in light spectrum under shading have been shown to alter chloroplast ultrastructure and chlorophyll components (Nii and Kuroiwa, 1988; Zhang et al., 1995; Hikosaka, 1996; Evans and Poorter, 2001).”
• Optimisation of photosynthetic carbon gain and within-canopy gradients of associated foliar traits for Amazon forest trees (2010, background): “, 2000) and, especially as gradients in nutrients and photosynthetic capacity are generally driven by gradients in MA rather than by variations in dry-weight nutrient concentrations (Reich et al., 1998; Ellsworth and Reich, 1993; Evans and Poorter, 2001), that there may be a practical lower limit to”
• Plasticity of morphological and physiological traits in response to different levels of irradiance in seedlings of silver fir (Abies alba Mill) (2003, background): “…larger maximal carboxylation rate (Vcmax) and maximal light driven electron flux (Jmax), larger dark respiration (Rd) and changed allocation of leaf nitrogen to photosynthetic processes (Evans and Poorter 2001; Frak et al. 2001; Kitajima 1994; Le Roux et al. 2001; Niinemets and Tenhunen 1997).”
• Altitudinal variation in leaf mass per unit area, leaf tissue density and foliar nitrogen and phosphorus content along an Amazon-Andes gradient in Peru (2009, background): “Sun leaves usually have higher LMA values and, as a consequence, higher N a values (Evans and Poorter 2001 ; Meir et al.”
• A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits? (2016, background): “Both LN and LChl are closely correlated with the mass-based maximum photosynthetic rate (Evans & Poorter 2001; Pérez-Harguindeguy et al. 2013).”
• Structural determinants of leaf light-harvesting capacity and photosynthetic potentials (2006, background): “Due to multiple scattering within the leaves, at a common chlorophyll content, the light interception capacity is larger for thicker leaves ( Evans and Poorter 2001 ).”
• Diverse concepts of breeding for nitrogen use efficiency. A review (2017, background): “Evans and Poorter (2001) found that increasing the specific leaf area was of greater importance for maximizing carbon gain per unit leaf mass than reallocating nitrogen between leaf pools.”
• Variation in parameters related to leaf thickness in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) (2005, background): “Low temperatures (e.g., Van Volkenburgh and Davies, 1977), high irradiance levels (Rawson et al., 1987; Nobel, 1991; Evans and Poorter, 2001), and moderate water deficits or salinity stress (Nobel, 1980) can increase leaf thickness.”
• Functional linkages between leaf traits and net photosynthetic rate: reconciling empirical and mechanistic models (2005, methodology): “Changing this ratio changes (i) the proportion of incident light absorbed by the leaf by changing the chlorophyll content per unit leaf area; and (ii) the electron transport capacity by changing the allocation of N per unit leaf area between thylakoid N, soluble protein N and chlorophyll (see equati”
• Daily variation patterns in seagrass photosynthesis along a vertical gradient (2003, background): “Plants have the capacity to adapt to their light environment in a number of ways, from the morphological down to the biochemical level (Falkowski & LaRoche 1991, Evans & Poorter 2001).”
• Is it boring to be a tree? Construction costs, chemical composition and payback time of high and low irradiance leaves (2005, background): “Therefore, the first question is to find out how growth irradiance affects the construction costs of leaves.”