Paper · 2025 · Environmental and Experimental Botany

Decode the hidden long-term growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress: Insights from leaf functional traits, anatomical bases, resource efficiency, and biochemical capacity

Shuxin Li; Feng Zhang; Tianhao Liu; et al.

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Abstract

Low temperature events can induce lasting growth limitations in wheat, impacting the final grain yield, but trade-offs of leaf functional traits in this process remain unclear. To address this issue, we investigated the relative biomass accumulation rate and leaf functional traits throughout the ‘low temperature stress-short recovery-long recovery’ process in wheat. Key leaf functional traits, including leaf dry mass per area, leaf nitrogen, and photosynthetic rate per unit mass were increased under low temperature. Their network relationships contribute to enhanced growth responses during short-term recovery. However, decreased leaf nitrogen and phosphorus, photosynthetic rate per unit mass , and increased dark respiration per unit mass at the 6-leaf stage, coupled with subsequent lower growth responses during long-term recovery, indicate that the irreversible detrimental impact of low temperature becomes apparent after a long recovery stage post the cession of low temperature stress. Changes in photosynthesis capacity during low temperature and the recovery period are influenced by leaf nutrients, CO 2 fractionation, and photosynthesis biochemistry. These factors are closely related to the coordination of leaf anatomy, thylakoid electron transport, and enzyme activities in wheat. Quantifying key leaf functional traits and understanding their network relationships provide important insights for evaluating crop responses to environmental temperature alterations.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Leaf dry mass per area, leaf nitrogen and photosynthetic rate per unit mass increased under low temperature.

Organ / stage
leafe1
Treatment
low temperaturee1
Outcome
leaf dry mass per area, leaf nitrogen, and photosynthetic rate per unit masse1
Direction
increasede1

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

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“Key leaf functional traits, including leaf dry mass per area, leaf nitrogen, and photosynthetic rate per unit mass were increased under low temperature”

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Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Network relationships among leaf traits contribute to enhanced growth responses during short-term recovery.

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enhanced growth responses during short-term recoverye2
Qualifier
network relationshipse2

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Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

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“Their network relationships contribute to enhanced growth responses during short-term recovery”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Leaf nitrogen, phosphorus and photosynthetic rate per unit mass decreased at the 6-leaf stage under low temperature.

Organ / stage
6-leaf stagee3
Treatment
low temperaturee4
Outcome
leaf nitrogen and phosphorus, photosynthetic rate per unit masse3
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decreasede3

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Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

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“decreased leaf nitrogen and phosphorus, photosynthetic rate per unit mass , and increased dark respiration per unit mass at the 6-leaf stage, coupled with subsequent lower growth responses during long-term recovery”

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e4

“irreversible detrimental impact of low temperature becomes apparent after a long recovery stage post the cession of low temperature stress”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Dark respiration per unit mass increased at the 6-leaf stage under low temperature.

Organ / stage
6-leaf stagee3
Treatment
low temperaturee4
Outcome
dark respiration per unit masse3
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increasede3

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

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“decreased leaf nitrogen and phosphorus, photosynthetic rate per unit mass , and increased dark respiration per unit mass at the 6-leaf stage, coupled with subsequent lower growth responses during long-term recovery”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 627–841 · show in text ↑
e4

“irreversible detrimental impact of low temperature becomes apparent after a long recovery stage post the cession of low temperature stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 861–999 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Growth responses during long-term recovery were lower after low temperature stress.

Treatment
low temperaturee4
Outcome
growth responses during long-term recoverye3
Direction
lowere3

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Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

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e3

“decreased leaf nitrogen and phosphorus, photosynthetic rate per unit mass , and increased dark respiration per unit mass at the 6-leaf stage, coupled with subsequent lower growth responses during long-term recovery”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 627–841 · show in text ↑
e4

“irreversible detrimental impact of low temperature becomes apparent after a long recovery stage post the cession of low temperature stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 861–999 · show in text ↑
Observationauthor interpretationoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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The irreversible detrimental impact of low temperature becomes apparent only after a long recovery stage.

Treatment
low temperature stresse4
Outcome
irreversible detrimental impact of low temperaturee4
Qualifier
after a long recovery stagee4

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 28–87 · show in text ↑
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“irreversible detrimental impact of low temperature becomes apparent after a long recovery stage post the cession of low temperature stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 861–999 · show in text ↑
Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Changes in photosynthesis capacity during low temperature and recovery are influenced by leaf nutrients, CO2 fractionation and photosynthesis biochemistry.

Outcome
Changes in photosynthesis capacitye5
Qualifier
leaf nutrients, CO 2 fractionation, and photosynthesis biochemistrye5

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
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“growth limitation in wheat caused by low temperature stress”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 28–87 · show in text ↑
e5

“Changes in photosynthesis capacity during low temperature and the recovery period are influenced by leaf nutrients, CO 2 fractionation, and photosynthesis biochemistry”

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Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The coordination of leaf anatomy, thylakoid electron transport and enzyme activities is closely related to the factors governing photosynthesis in wheat.

Outcome
coordination of leaf anatomy, thylakoid electron transport, and enzyme activitiese6
Qualifier
closely relatede6

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Triticum aestivum
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e6

“These factors are closely related to the coordination of leaf anatomy, thylakoid electron transport, and enzyme activities in wheat”

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