Claim · model-written summary
Under higher light, Cariniana estrellensis roots increased their assimilation of 15NH4+.
- Taxon
- Cariniana estrellensis
Cariniana estrellensise1 - Organ / stage
- rootse1
- Treatment
- HLe1
- Outcome
- assimilation of 15 NH 4 +e1
- Direction
- increasede1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e1“Cariniana estrellensis increased the assimilation of 15 NH 4 + in roots and 15 NO 3 − in leaves under HL”
Title
Tatiane Viegas Debiasi; Anderson Kikuchi Calzavara; Ladaslav Sodek; et al. Physiologia Plantarum 2021. doi:10.1111/ppl.13470
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- Intervention effect Under higher light, the leaf area ratio decreased in all neotropical tree species studied.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, growth, nitrate reductase activity and assimilated N content increased in all neotropical tree species studied.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Cecropia pachystachya increased its use of both NH4+ and NO3- sources.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Cecropia pachystachya roots showed a 12.5-fold increase in 15NO3- derived 15N-amino acids.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Cecropia pachystachya leaves showed a 4.0-fold increase in 15NO3- derived 15N-amino acids.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Cecropia pachystachya roots showed a 4.5-fold increase in 15NH4+ derived 15N-amino acids.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Cecropia pachystachya leaves showed a 3.0-fold increase in 15NH4+ derived 15N-amino acids.
- Observation Guarea kunthiana showed the greatest plasticity in N use among the species studied.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Guarea kunthiana roots showed an 11.2-fold increase in 15NO3- assimilation.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Guarea kunthiana leaves showed a 17.0-fold increase in 15NO3- assimilation.
- Intervention effect Under higher light, Cariniana estrellensis leaves increased their assimilation of 15NO3-.
- Association The responses of N use strategies to light intensity varied among the species according to their ecological characteristics.