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DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-12898
Assimilate Transport in the Xylem Sap of Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) Saplings
Publication History
June 20, 2000
January 18, 2001
Publication Date:
31 December 2001 (online)
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Abstract
The rates of photosynthesis and transpiration, as well as the concentrations of organic compounds (total soluble non-protein N compounds [TSNN], soluble carbohydrates), in the xylem sap were determined during two growth seasons in one-year-old Quercus robur saplings. From the data, the total C gain of the leaves, by both photosynthesis and the transpiration stream, was calculated. Large amounts of C were allocated to the leaves by the transpiration stream; depending on the time of day and the environmental conditions the portion of C originating from xylem transport amounted to 8 to 91% of total C delivery to the leaves. Particularly under conditions of reduced photosynthesis, e.g., during midday depression of photosynthesis, a high percentage of the total C delivery was provided to the leaves by the transpiration stream (83 to 91 %). Apparently, attack by phloem-feeding aphids lowered the assimilate transport from roots to shoots; as a consequence the portion of C available to the leaves from xylem transport amounted to only 12 to 16 %. The most abundant organic compounds transported in the xylem sap were sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose) with concentrations of ca. 50 to 500 μmol C ml-1, whereas C from N compounds was of minor significance (3 to 20 μmol ml-1 C). The results indicate a significant cycling of C in the plants because the daily transport of C with the transpiration stream exceeded the daily photosynthetic CO2 fixation in several cases. This cycling pool of C may sustain delivery of photosynthate to heterotrophic tissues, independent of short time fluctuations in photosynthetic CO2 fixation.
Key words
Organic carbon - carbon cycling - photosynthesis - transpiration - Quercus robur
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H. Rennenberg
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Institut für Forstbotanik und Baumphysiologie
Professur für Baumphysiologie
Georges-Köhler-Allee, Geb. 053/054
79110 Freiburg i. B.
Germany
Email: here@uni-freiburg.de
Section Editor: U. Lüttge