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Balanced allocation of organic acids and biomass for phosphorus and nitrogen demand in the fynbos legume Podalyria calyptrata.
Journal of Plant Physiology 2015 Februrary 2
Podalyria calyptrata is from fynbos soils with low availability of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N). We investigated the physiological basis for tolerance of low P supply in nodulated P. calyptrata and examined responses to increased supply of combined-N as Ca(NO3)2 and P. It was hypothesized that increasing supply of combined-N would stimulate P-acquisition mechanisms and enhance plant growth with high P supply. Biomass, leaf [N] and [P], organic acid and phosphatase root exudates, and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) activity in nodules and roots were examined in two N×P experiments. Low P supply decreased leaf [P] and limited growth, decreasing the nodule:root ratio but increasing nodular PEPC and MDH activity for enhanced P-acquisition or P-utilization. At low P supply, a N-induced demand for P increased root exudation of citrate and PEPC and MDH activity in roots. Greater combined-N supply inhibited nodulation more at low P supply than at high P supply. With a P-induced demand for N the plants nodulated prolifically and increased combined-N supply did not enhance plant growth. The physiological basis for N2-fixing P. calyptrata tolerating growth at low P supply and responding to greater P supply is through balanced acquisition of P and N for plant demand.
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