Leaf carbohydrate controls over Arabidopsis growth and response to elevated CO2 : an experimentally based model

Transient starch production is thought to strongly control plant growth and response to elevated CO2. We tested this hypothesis with an experimentally based mechanistic model in Arabidopsis thaliana. Experiments were conducted on wild-type (WT) A. thaliana, starch-excess (sex1) and starchless (pgm)...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New phytologist. - 1979. - 172(2006), 3 vom: 15., Seite 500-13
1. Verfasser: Rasse, Daniel P (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Tocquin, Pierre
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2006
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The New phytologist
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Arabidopsis Proteins Carbohydrates Monosaccharide Transport Proteins Carbon Dioxide 142M471B3J Sucrose 57-50-1 Starch mehr... 9005-25-8 SEX1 protein, Arabidopsis EC 2.7.9.-
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Zusammenfassung:Transient starch production is thought to strongly control plant growth and response to elevated CO2. We tested this hypothesis with an experimentally based mechanistic model in Arabidopsis thaliana. Experiments were conducted on wild-type (WT) A. thaliana, starch-excess (sex1) and starchless (pgm) mutants under ambient and elevated CO2 conditions to determine parameters and validate the model. The model correctly predicted that mutant growth is approx. 20% of that in WT, and the absolute response of both mutants to elevated CO2 is an order of magnitude lower than in WT. For sex1, direct starch unavailability explained the growth responses. For pgm, we demonstrated experimentally that maintenance respiration is proportional to leaf soluble sugar concentration, which gave the necessary feedback mechanism on modelled growth. Our study suggests that the effects of sugar-starch cycling on growth can be explained by simple allocation processes, and the maximum rate of leaf growth (sink capacity) exerts a strong control over the response to elevated CO2 of herbaceous plants such as A. thaliana
Beschreibung:Date Completed 12.01.2007
Date Revised 30.09.2020
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1469-8137