Claim · model-written summary
P application restored shoot regrowth to the level of continuously P supplied plants within 7 to 21 days.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- P applicatione0
- Outcome
- Shoot regrowthe0
- Direction
- recovered to equale0
- Value
- 7 to 21 dayse0
- Comparator
- plants provided 6 mM Pe0
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Verbatim
e0“Shoot regrowth of P‐deficient plants recovered to equal that of plants provided 6 mM P within 7 to 21 days after P application.”
t0“alfalfa”
Title
Effects of phosphorus nutrition on carbohydrate and protein metabolism in alfalfa roots
R. Li; J. J. Volenec; B. C. Joern; et al. Journal of Plant Nutrition 1998. doi:10.1080/01904169809365417
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Root P concentration increased with solution P.
- Intervention effect Root phytate P was greater at 6 mM P than at 0, 1, or 2 mM P.
- Intervention effect At 0 mM P, shoot mass was 67% lower than at 6 mM P.
- Intervention effect At 0 mM P, shoots per plant were 43% lower than at 6 mM P.
- Intervention effect Root starch and protein concentrations did not decline after defoliation at 0 mM P.
- Intervention effect Defoliation increased root endoamylase activity in plants receiving P.
- Association Root total amylase activity declined as P supply increased.
- Association Root total amylase activity was not associated with root starch degradation.
- Intervention effect Root P concentration rose within seven days of P application.
- Intervention effect P applied at defoliation enhanced root starch use.
- Intervention effect P applied on day 14 had no effect on root starch depletion.
- Observation Plants supplied 6 mM P used root starch normally after a second defoliation.
- Intervention effect P application during regrowth did not restore normal root protein utilization.
- Observation P deficient roots retained high organic reserve concentrations but impaired use after defoliation.
- Observation P deficient roots had impaired reserve use after defoliation.