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JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION
Volume 35, Issue 7, Pages 1004-1021Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01904167.2012.671404
Keywords
carbohydrate; K uptake and partitioning; Lactuca sativa; photosynthesis; root morphology; root-zone temperature
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- Ministry of Education, Singapore [RP 22/98 HJ]
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Lactuca sativa L. plants were grown at three root-zone temperatures (RZTs): 25 degrees C, 30 degrees C and ambient RZT (A-RZT) on an aeroponic system. Three potassium (K) concentrations: - 25% (minus K), control (standard K), and + 25% (plus K) were supplied to plants at each RZT. Plants grown at the plus K and 25 degrees C-RZT had the highest productivity, largest root system and highest photosynthetic capacity. The minus K plants at 25 degrees C-RZT had the highest shoot soluble carbohydrate (SC) concentration, but they had the highest root SC concentration in the plus K plants at A-RZT. However, the highest starch concentration was found in both shoots and roots of the plus K plants at 25 degrees C-RZT. The plus K plants had the highest shoot K concentration at 25 degrees C-RZT, but they had the highest root K concentration at A-RZT. Highest proportion of absorbed K was partitioned to shoots when the plants were grown with the plus K at 25 degrees C-RZT.
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