Claim · model-written summary
Stimulated cell wall properties were associated with increased leaf expansion.
- Treatment
- ozonee0
- Outcome
- leaf expansione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- Cell wall properties (elasticity and plasticity)e0
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Verbatim
e0“Cell wall properties (elasticity and plasticity) were both stimulated by ozone and this was associated with increased leaf expansion”
t0“poplar (Populus trichocarpa × P. deltoides)”
Title
Simon D. L. Gardner; Peter H. Freer-Smith; J. Tucker; et al. Functional Plant Biology 2005. doi:10.1071/fp04131
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- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased all measured growth variables.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased mainstem dry weight by 38% in year 1.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased mainstem dry weight by 32% in year 2.
- Intervention effect Ozone reduced mainstem dry mass by 45% under ambient CO2.
- Intervention effect Ozone reduced mainstem dry mass by 34% under elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 had limited effects on photosynthetic efficiency.
- Intervention effect Ozone episodes reduced Vcmax.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 tended to increase leaf expansion.
- Intervention effect Ozone generally reduced leaf expansion rates.
- Intervention effect Ozone briefly increased leaf expansion.
- Intervention effect Ozone reduced leaf solute potentials in young leaves.
- Intervention effect Ozone increased turgor in young leaves.
- Intervention effect Ozone stimulated cell wall elasticity and plasticity.
- Intervention effect Ozone increased leaf loss.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 delayed abscission.
- Intervention effect Ozone accelerated leaf loss less under elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect Combined CO2 and ozone treatment had intermediate growth effects.