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Application of nitrogen fertilizer to 23-year old Pinus radiata D. Don at high rates induced considerable change in patterns of nitrogen mineralization in the soil. Increased net mineralization, nitrification, root Nitrate Reductase Activity, and foliar N levels were measured within 12 months of fertilizer application. Fertilizing did not, however, affect growth significantly over the 30 months of measurement. Significant differences in inorganic-N and patterns of mineralization between fertilized plots and controls were not maintained and all of the fertilized plots had levels of inorganic-N and patterns of mineralization approaching those of the control within 30 months. N added to these young aggrading forests of high productivity therefore appears to be quickly immobilized. Within normal forest rotations, it is apparent that the C/N ratio of the soil acts as a strong buffer to perturbation of mineralization patterns. 相似文献
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Summary During treatment of wood meal with nitrogen dioxide and oxygen the major proportion of the nitrogen dioxide and the intermediate nitric oxide is consumed within a few minutes. On prolonged treatment the concentrations decrease slowly due to regeneration of nitrogen dioxide by reactions between the modified lignin and nitric acid formed in the process. The conversion to nitric acid increases with an increased addition of nitrogen dioxide, a decreased dry content, and temperature. An appreciable proportion of the nitric acid is consumed on prolonged treatment.The financial support from 1959 Års Fond för Teknisk och Skoglig Forskning samt Utbildning and from the Swedish Board for Technical Development is gratefully acknowledged. 相似文献
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《Forest Ecology and Management》2004,196(1):29-41
Increased atmospheric deposition of N to forests is an issue of global concern, with largely undocumented long-term effects on soil solution chemistry. In contrast to bulk soil properties, which are typically slow to respond to a chronic stress, soil solution chemistry may provide an early indication of the long-term changes in soils associated with a chronic stress. At the Harvard Forest, soil solution was collected beneath the forest floor in zero tension lysimeters for 10 years (1993–2002) as part of an N saturation experiment. The experiment was begun in 1988 with 5 or 15 g N m−2 per year added to hardwood and pine forest plots, and our samples thus characterize the long-term response to N fertilization. Samples were routinely analyzed for inorganic nitrogen, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), and dissolved organic carbon (DOC); selected samples were also analyzed to determine qualitative changes in the composition of dissolved organic matter. Fluxes of DOC, DON, and inorganic N were calculated based on modeled water loss from the forest floor and observed concentrations in lysimeter samples. The concentration and flux of inorganic N lost from the forest floor in percolating soil solution are strongly affected by N fertilization and have not shown any consistent trends over time. On average, inorganic N fluxes have reached or exceeded the level of fertilizer application in most plots. Concentrations of DOC were unchanged by N fertilization in both the hardwood and pine stands, with long-term seasonal averages ranging from 31–57 mg l−1 (hardwood) and 36–93 mg l−1 (pine). Annual fluxes of DOC ranged from 30–50 g m−2 per year. DON concentrations more than doubled, resulting in a shift toward N-rich organic matter in soil solution percolating from the plots, and DON fluxes of 1–3 g m−2 per year. The DOC:DON ratio of soil solution under high N application (10–20) was about half that of controls. The organic chemistry of soil solution undergoes large qualitative changes in response to N addition. With N saturation, there is proportionally more hydrophilic material in the total DON pool, and a lower C:N ratio in the hydrophobic fraction of the total DOM pool. Overall, our data show that fundamental changes in the chemistry of forest floor solution have occurred in response to N fertilization prior to initiation of our sampling. During the decade of this study (years 5–14 of N application) both inorganic N and dissolved organic matter concentrations have changed little despite the significant biotic changes that have accompanied N saturation. 相似文献
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Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in early stages of forest litter decomposition as affected by nitrogen addition 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
The effects of nitrogen(N) availability and tree species on the dynamics of carbon and nitrogen at early stage of decomposition of forest litter were studied in a 13-week laboratory incubation experiment.Fresh litter samples including needle litter(Pinus koraiensis) and two types of broadleaf litters(Quercus mongolica and Tilia amurensis) were collected from a broadleaf-korean pine mixed forest in the northern slope of Changbai Mountain(China).Different doses of N(equal to 0, 30 and 50 kg·ha-1yr-1, respecti... 相似文献
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《Forest Ecology and Management》2004,196(1):57-70
Forest stands at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, receiving experimentally elevated N inputs have shown greatly increased N leaching loss yet still retain over 70% of the added N in soils, presumably in organic form. Whether microbial or abiotic mechanisms are responsible for the high N retention is not well understood. We monitored soil respiration and extractable NH4-N and NO3-N following monthly applications of NH4NO3 to a hardwood forest and a pine plantation during the fifth year of chronic fertilizer applications (15 g N as NH4NO3 m−2 per year). We hypothesized that individual N applications would increase short-term soil respiration (within 1 month) in previously unamended and N-limited soil, but that little or no increase would occur following N applications to chronically N-amended soils, assumed to be carbon-limited to some degree after 5 years of N additions. Short-term soil respiration did not increase after N additions in either the chronically amended or previously untreated soils except for one instance in the latter. However, extractable N levels in both previously unamended plots returned to pre-application levels within 2 weeks of the N addition. This rapid disappearance of the applied N suggests microbial immobilization, but in all but one instance there was no accompanying CO2 efflux increase indicating increased microbial biomass growth. A model of N immobilization through microbial biomass production, driven by the observed apparent net N immobilization, predicted soil CO2 efflux 4–17 times greater than measured rates. Microbial biomass production does not appear to be the mechanism by which the fertilizer N immobilization occurred, according to our assumptions about microbial C:N ratios and carbon use efficiency. Hardwood stand average soil respiration rates over the study period were significantly higher in the previously unamended plot than in the control, and the control and chronically N-treated plot respiration rates were similar. Soil respiration rates for all pine stand treatments were similar. These results are insufficient to support our hypotheses concerning carbon versus nitrogen limitation in these soils. Our results, along with evidence from other studies, suggest that abiotic mechanisms play a role in the high retention of long-term N additions in these soils. 相似文献
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Nitrogen (N) is usually the most limiting nutrient in degraded agricultural soils and affects the growth and ecological function
of poplar (Populus spp.) plantations. We hypothesized that application of organic mulch would improve soil nitrogen availability and increase
tree growth, while the quality of mulching materials would alter the supply of essential nutrients. In this study, poplar
plantations were established in 2004 and two experiments were established in the field. The fresh above-ground biomass of
cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv.), oak (Quercus fabri Hance), Chinese coriaria (Coriaria nepalensis Wallich) and brackenfern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn. var. latiusculum (Desv.) Underw. ex Heller) in the current year was selected as mulching materials, and mulches were annually applied at the
rate of 5.0 kg/m2 in the N mineralization experiment and 20,000 kg/ha in growth and nutrient availability experiment. Additions of fresh biomass
significantly improved annual net N-mineralization estimates and the mulching treatments increased the cumulative N mineralized
over the incubation period by 22–30%. However, a significant difference in the cumulative N mineralized was not observed among
the mulched treatments, even if the cumulative N mineralized in the treatment mulched with oak (QF) was 5.9, 3.3 and 2.2%
greater than that of treatments with brackenfern (PA), Chinese coriaria (CN) and cogongrass (IC), respectively. Application
of fresh biomass mulch markedly affected soil available N contents and growth performance of poplar plantations. The mulching
treatments with QF, IC, PA and CN increased annual means of available N concentration by 39.0, 29.0, 29.6 and 39.7% respectively.
At the end of the fifth growing season, the average height of poplar plantations in treatments mulched with QF, IC, PA and
CN was 46.8, 14.9, 42.6 and 57.4% greater than that in Check (CK-no mulch), while mean DBH increased by 35.4, 12.5, 33.3 and
52.1%, respectively. Overall, the productivity was enhanced in mulched plots at the end of the third growing season. Compared
with CK, the treatments mulched with QF, IC, PA and CN increased total biomass by 97.4, 96.4, 63.1 and 81.6%, respectively.
Based on the results of this study, annual application of 20,000 kg/ha fresh woody biomass would be recommended for soil improvement
in young poplar plantations growing on a degraded agricultural soil. 相似文献
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《Forest Ecology and Management》2004,193(3):413-426
In six Douglas-fir [Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco] stands in the Puget Sound Region in Western Washington/USA, forest floor C and N pools were quantified on control plots and on plots that had been fertilized repeatedly with urea 8–30 years ago (total amount of applied N 0.9–1.1 Mg ha−1). Additionally, net N mineralization and nitrification rates were assessed in field and laboratory incubation experiments. Forest floor C/N ratios were decreased on the fertilized plots of all sites compared to the respective control plots. The decreases were particularly strong at sites with initial C/N ratios larger than 30. On sites with low productivity (site index at age 50: <33 m), N fertilization resulted in considerable increases in forest floor N pools. Net N mineralization and nitrification during 12-week field incubation was negligible for the unfertilized and fertilized plots of all except one site (Pack Forest), where the stand had been clear-cut 2 years ago. The increases in N mineralization rates during 12-week laboratory incubation induced by repeated N fertilization showed an inverse relationship to the time elapsed since the last fertilizer application, and were generally larger at sites with initial forest floor C/N ratios >30. For the investigated sites, fertilization effects on net N mineralization sustained for at least 11 years after the last fertilizer application. Nitrification correlated strongly with the forest floor pH; significant formation of NO3− was observed only for O layers with a pH (H2O) higher than 4.5. 相似文献
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To examine how rates of net photosynthesis and N uptake of red oak seedlings respond to defoliation under contrasting conditions of N availability, nitrogen-deficient plants were grown in sand culture and subjected to partial defoliation and increased N availability under low light conditions. Both photosynthesis and N uptake rates were measured regularly before and after the treatments. Defoliation resulted in elevated rates of net photosynthesis in both low-N and high-N trees, but the high-N trees were able to maintain the high photosynthetic rates for a longer period of time. Nitrogen availability did not affect the photosynthetic rate of the undefoliated plants. Nitrogen uptake was not affected by the defoliation treatment, but was increased by increasing N availability in both the defoliated and undefoliated plants. Nitrogen uptake rates increased less than would be expected on the basis of N availability alone, but the uptake rates were apparently not limited by carbon supply in the short term. Suboptimal concentrations of N in plant tissues resulted in a strong sink for N even in the absence of refoliation. 相似文献
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Twenty-four temperate tree species were classified into three groups based on cluster analysis of relative growth rate, nitrogen concentration, nitrogen-production efficiency, nitrogen-distribution ratio and nitrogen-use efficiency as follows: Group I (Asteridae and Rosidae), Group II (Dilleniidae and Hamamelidae) and Group III (Coniferopsidae). Relative growth rate (RGR) was high in Group II, moderate in Group I and low in Group III. The regression coefficient for the relationship between RGR and leaf nitrogen concentration was higher in Group II than in Group I, and no relationship was observed in Group III. Parameter analysis of RGR indicated that RGR per unit leaf nitrogen was important for all three groups, but that the allocation of nitrogen to leaves was particularly important in Groups I and II. The ratio of dark respiratory rate (R) to net photosynthetic rate (A) was higher in Group I than in Group II. Neither A nor R was measured in the Group III species. A linear relationship was observed between leaf nitrogen concentration and A in Group II, but this relationship was not evident in Group I. 相似文献
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We estimated the amount of nitrogen (N) remobilized from 1-year-old leaves at various positions in the crowns of mature Quercus glauca Thunb. ex Murray trees and related this to the production of new shoots. Leaf N concentration on an area basis (Na) and total N (Nt= Na x lamina area of all leaves on a shoot) were related to photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) on the leaves of current-year and 1-year-old shoots. When new shoots (S02 shoots; flushed in 2002) flushed, only a portion of the leaves on the previous year's shoots (S01 shoots; flushed in 2001) were shed. After the S02 shoots flushed, S01 shoots were defined as 1-year-old shoots (S01* shoots). Both Na and Nt were positively correlated with PPF for S01 shoots, but not for S01* shoots. The fraction of remobilized N (% of the maximum Na in S01 leaves) from remaining leaves was 5-35%, with the fraction size being positively correlated with the number of S02 shoots on an S01* shoot (new shoot number). However, the mean fraction of remobilized N from fallen leaves was 45% and was unrelated to new shoot number. The total amount of N remobilized from both fallen and remaining leaves was 1-20 mg per S01* shoot. Total remobilized N was positively correlated with new shoot number. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between the light-saturated net photosynthetic rate on a leaf area basis (Amax) and Na for both S01* and S02 leaves. However, when we compared leaves with similar Na, Amax of S01* leaves was only half that of S02 leaves, indicating that 1-year-old leaves had lower instantaneous N-use efficiency (Amax per unit Na) than current-year leaves. Ratios of chlorophyll a:b and Rubisco:chlorophyll were lower in S01* leaves than in S02 leaves, indicating that 1-year-old leaves were acclimatized to lower light environments. Thus, in Q. glauca, the N allocation theory (i.e., that N is distributed according to local PPF) applied only to the current-year shoots. Although the amount of foliar N in 1-year-old shoots was not strongly affected by the PPF on 1-year-old leaves, it was affected by interactions with current-year shoots. 相似文献
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Distribution of leaf nitrogen with respect to leaf mass per unit area (M(a)), nitrogen per unit mass (N(m)) and nitrogen per unit area (N(a)) within peach (Prunus persica L.) tree canopies was studied in two field experiments. In one experiment, leaf light exposure and M(a) were measured on leaves from different canopy positions of peach trees subjected to five nitrogen (N) fertilization treatments. Leaf light exposure and M(a) were linearly related and the relationship was independent of N fertilization. In a subsequent experiment, N fertilizer was applied to previously unfertilized trees in midsummer, after shoot growth had terminated. Application of N fertilizer did not affect mean canopy M(a). Fertilization increased N(m) of all leaves throughout the canopy compared with non-fertilized trees. No significant relationship between N(m) and M(a) was found in either fertilized or control trees. There was a linear relationship between N(a) and M(a) and the slope of the relationship was increased by N fertilizer application. We conclude that distribution of N(a) in peach tree canopies is primarily a function of M(a) partitioning with light and N(m), which is related to soil N availability. 相似文献
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Sustained increases in plant production in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)) concentration may be constrained by the availability of soil nitrogen (N). However, it is possible that plants will respond to N limitation at elevated CO(2) concentration by increasing the specific N uptake capacity of their roots. To explore this possibility, we examined the kinetics of (15)NH(4) (+) and (15)NO(3) (-) uptake by excised roots of Populus tremuloides Michx. grown in ambient and twice-ambient CO(2) concentrations, and in soils of low- and high-N availability. Elevated CO(2) concentration had no effect on either NH(4) (+) or NO(3) (-) uptake, whereas high-N availability decreased the capacity of roots to take up both NH(4) (+) and NO(3) (-). The maximal rate of NH(4) (+) uptake decreased from 12 to 8 &mgr;mol g(-1) h(-1), and K(m) increased from 49 to 162 &mgr;mol l(-1), from low to high soil N availability.Because NO(3) (-) uptake exhibited mixedkinetics over the concentration range we used (10-500 &mgr;mol l( -1)), it was not possible to calculate V(max) and K(m). Instead, we used an uptake rate of 100 &mgr;mol g(-1) h(-1) as our metric of NO(3) (-) uptake capacity, which averaged 0.45 and 0.23 &mgr;mol g(-1) h(-1) at low- and high-N availability, respectively. The proximal mechanisms for decreased N uptake capacity at high-N availability appeared to be an increase in fine-root carbohydrate status and a decrease in fine-root N concentration. Both NH(4) (+) and NO(3) (-) uptake were inversely related to fine-root N concentration, and positively related to fine-root total nonstructural carbohydrate concentration. We conclude that soil N availability, through its effects on fine-root N and carbohydrate status, has a much greater influence on the specific uptake capacity of P. tremuloides fine roots than elevated atmospheric CO(2). In elevated atmospheric CO(2), changes in N acquisition by P. tremuloides appeared to be driven by changes in root architecture and biomass, rather than by changes in the amount or activity of N-uptake enzymes. 相似文献
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Hollinger DY 《Tree physiology》1996,16(7):627-634
Physical and functional properties of foliage were measured at a variety of microsites in a broad-leaved Nothofagus fusca (Hook. f.) ?rst. canopy. The light climate of the foliage at these sites was monitored for 39 days in the late spring and early summer with in situ sensors. Foliage nitrogen content (N), mean leaf angle, and gas exchange characteristics were all correlated with the amount of light reaching the microsites during foliage development. Foliage N content on a leaf area basis ranged between ~1 and 2.5 g N m(-2) and was highest at the brightest sites. Light-saturated photosynthetic rates ranged between ~4 and 9 micro mol m(-2) s(-1), increasing from the darkest to brightest sites. A biochemical model of photosynthesis was fitted to foliage characteristics at the different microsites and used to integrate foliage assimilation among the sites over 39 days. The actual arrangement of foliage physiological characteristics in the observed microsites led to higher total canopy rates of net assimilation than > 99% of the combinations of observed foliage characteristics randomly assigned to the observed microsites. Additional simulations first related the maximum rates of electron transport (J(max)), ribulose bisphosphate turnover (V(c,max)), and dark respiration (R(d)) of Nothofagus fusca foliage to nitrogen content and then allowed foliage N (and consequently leaf gas exchange characteristics) to vary across the canopy. The observed N allocation pattern results in greater total canopy assimilation than uniform or > 99% of the simulations with random distributions of N among the microsites (constrained so that the total N allocated was equivalent to that observed in the microsites). However, the observed pattern of N allocation places less N in the brightest microsites and results in substantially less total assimilation than a simulated canopy in which N was allocated in an optimal manner where the N distribution is such that the partial derivative of leaf assimilation (A) with respect to leaf nitrogen content, partial differential A/ partial differential N, is constant among microsites. These results suggest that other factors such as wind or herbivory reduce the integrated assimilation of high-N foliage relatively more than lower-N foliage and that a partial differential A/ partial differential N optimality criteria based only on formulations of leaf gas exchange overestimate canopy assimilation. 相似文献
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Seasonal changes in photosynthetic capacity, leaf nitrogen (N) content and N partitioning were studied from before leaf maturation (spring) until death (autumn) in high- and low-light-exposed leaves of a deciduous shrub, Lindera umbellata var. membranacea (Maxim.) Momiyama growing in a natural forest in northeast Japan. In spring, light-saturated photosynthetic rate (Pmax) was low despite high leaf N and Rubisco contents, indicating that the photosynthetic apparatus was not yet functionally developed. Rubisco seemed to be only partially active. In summer and autumn, Pmax per unit leaf N increased and changes in Pmax were correlated with changes in leaf N and two photosynthetic components, Rubisco and chlorophyll. Changes in these components paralleled the changes in leaf N. During leaf senescence, about 70% of leaf N was resorbed. Metabolic proteins that accounted for the majority of leaf N in summer were highly degradable and more than sufficient to explain the high N-resorption efficiency. Structural proteins represented only a small part of leaf N and were relatively resistant to degradation and thus contributed little to N resorption. Leaf N partitioning between metabolic and structural proteins determined the amount of retranslocatable N, but did not strictly determine the N content of a dead leaf or N-resorption efficiency. 相似文献
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Photosynthetic utilization of water and nitrogen in Ulmus americana L. seedlings was tightly linked with the relative availability of each resource. During periodic drying cycles, water use efficiency increased as predawn water potential fell from -0.5 to -2.0 MPa. During the later stages of such drying cycles, the relative contribution of stomatal limitations to the total net photosynthetic limitation appeared to be at its greatest, whereas biochemical limitations were predominant in well-watered plants grown under low nitrogen (N) availability. For any level of leaf water status, water use efficiency of photosynthesis (WUE) was always greater in plants with high leaf N content than in plants with low leaf N content. Photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (PNUE) was always greater in plants with low leaf N content than in plants with high leaf N content, for any level of water status. In combined N treatments and predawn water status classes, there was a significant inverse relationship between PNUE and WUE. 相似文献
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《Forest Ecology and Management》2004,196(1):1-5
The delivery of reactive forms of nitrogen to the environment through the sum of agricultural and industrial activities now exceeds that from natural processes. Potential negative effects on forests were first proposed in 1985, and in the ensuing two decades, the process of N saturation has become a well-established and generally understood phenomenon, with a few remaining, significant unknowns.One goal of this special section in Forest Ecology and Management is to report in detail on results from the first 15 years of chronic nitrogen additions to two contrasting forest types at the Harvard Forest in Petersham, MA, USA, with special reference to these two central questions. As similar projects elsewhere come to an end, the Harvard Forest experiment remains as one of the few on-going, long-term N saturation experiments. Longevity has enhanced the value of the chronic N experiment, and lead to a series of collaborative studies on plant, soil and microbial responses. Another goal of this special issue is to bring together and present the findings resulting from a diverse set of measurements enabled by the presence of this long-term experiment. A total of 11 papers are presented, in addition to this brief introduction. 相似文献
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《Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research》2012,27(1-4):291-299
A simple model for willow forest growth during the growing season is presented. The model is based on nitrogen productivity, expressed as the daily above‐ground biomass growth per the amounts of nitrogen in foliage and leaf litter. It is shown that the nitrogen productivity can be expressed as a linear function of the amounts of leaves produced. The model, which also includes allocation of biomass between stem and leaf biomass as well as between foliage and leaf litter biomass, is tested against accurate measurements of the seasonal growth of willow of four different plots. Simulated and measured biomass of stem, foliage, leaf litter and the total above‐ground biomass agreed well for all four plots. The model concept should be useful in nitrogen flux models and as a tool to describe the actual growth of a willow stand, knowing only the annual leaf production and the nitrogen concentrations of foliage during the growing season. 相似文献
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Soil N mineralization is affected by microbial biomass and respiration, which are limited by available C and N. To examine
the relationship between C and N for soil microbial dynamics and N dynamics, we conducted long-term laboratory incubation
(150 days) after C and N amendment and measured changes in C and N mineralization, microbial biomass C, and dissolved C and
N throughout the incubation period. The study soil was volcanic immature soil from the southern part of Japan, which contains
lower C and N compared with other Japanese forest soils. Despite this, the area is covered by well-developed natural and plantation
forests. Carbon amendment resulted in an increase in both microbial biomass and respiration, and net N mineralization decreased,
probably due to increasing microbial immobilization. In contrast, N amendment resulted in a decrease in microbial respiration
and an increase in net N mineralization, possibly due to decreased immobilization by microbes. Amendment of both C and N simultaneously
did not affect microbial biomass and respiration, although net N mineralization was slightly increased. The results suggested
that inhibitory effect on microbial respiration by N amendment should be reduced if carbon availability is higher. Thus, soil
available C may limit microbial biomass and respiration in this volcanic immature soil. Even in immature soil where C and
N substrate is low, soil C, such as plant root exudates and materials from above- and belowground dead organisms, might help
to maintain microbial activity and N mineralization in this study site. 相似文献
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论沙棘根系与功能Ⅲ——共生固氮机理、条件与初级氮代谢 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
沙棘的根瘤是由宿主瘤组织和侵入的弗兰克氏菌共栖结合组成的。在固氮与氮同化过程中，它们之间既有明确的分工又有高度协调完美的结合。沙棘根瘤组织提供菌体生长、发育和固氮的最适环境与营养，防止O2对固氮酶的伤害，N2的吸收，NH3的同化与转运，提供与胺结合的初级酮酸基团和ATP供能等。而弗兰克氏菌的主要功能是：在泡囊中由高效的固氮酶及其辅因子，完成由N2→NH3的还原过程。因此，固氮，胺的同化和利用，是宿主和菌共同协同而实现的一个生理生化过程。其表现与表达的特点是：共栖是基础；多条代谢途径调控是保证；多酶体系是代谢途径的调控中心；功能与结构上的定位、分层、分区、分功，是以连续的时、空偶联而实现固氮全过程的条件。深入研究和认识固氮机理与条件，不仅具有理论上的意义，更具有指导种植和生态工程建设的现实作用。 相似文献