Claim · model-written summary
Nitrate limitation reduced leaf area more than stem area.
- Taxon
- Spartium junceum
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Spartium junceumt0 - Treatment
- NO3- limitatione0
- Outcome
- leaf areae0
- Direction
- greater reductione0
- Comparator
- stem areae0
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Verbatim
e0“NO3- limitation resulted in a greater reduction in leaf area compared to stem area”
t0“Spartium junceum”
Title
Erik Tallak Nilsen American Journal of Botany 1992. doi:10.2307/2445047
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Nitrogen limitation reduced aboveground growth.
- Intervention effect Supplemental ammonium increased growth.
- Intervention effect Supplemental ammonium increased stem area more than leaf area.
- Intervention effect Excess ammonium decreased leaf and stem growth.
- Intervention effect Under nitrogen limitation stems contained more nitrogen than leaves.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen limitation reduced stem assimilation.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen limitation reduced leaf assimilation.
- Intervention effect Stem contribution to daily carbon gain increased while that of leaves decreased.
- Intervention effect Leaf contribution to daily carbon gain decreased under nitrogen limitation.
- Association Stem and leaf assimilation had similar linear relationships with tissue nitrogen concentration.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen use efficiency increased under nitrogen limitation.