NUTRIENT COMPETITION. “To grow faster, plants must allocate more resources, primarily nitrogen, to photosynthesis. Nitrogen is one of the most important limiting resources for plant growth in nature, and most leaf nitrogen is allocated to photosynthesis. Small changes in nitrogen allocation can greatly influence light-saturated photosynthetic rate (Pmax) and photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency (PNUE), and therefore plant performance. Leaf nitrogen that is not allocated to photosynthesis is generally used structurally in cell walls, a component of plant defense and chemical defenses.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022