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Plant Physiology 69:771-775 (1982)
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Control of Leaf Expansion by Nitrogen Nutrition in Sunflower Plants 1

ROLE OF HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY AND TURGOR

John W. Radin2 and John S. Boyer

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Agronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Nitrogen nutrition strongly affected the growth rate of young sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) leaves. When plants were grown from seed on either of two levels of N availability, a 33% decrease in tissue N of expanding leaves was associated with a 75% overall inhibition of leaf growth. Almost all of the growth inhibition resulted from a depression of the daytime growth rate. Measurements of pressure-induced water flux through roots showed that N deficiency decreased root hydraulic conductivity by about half. Thus, N deficiency lowered the steady-state water potential of expanding leaves during the daytime when transpiration was occurring. As a result, N-deficient leaves were unable to maintain adequate turgor for growth in the daytime. N deficiency also decreased the hydraulic conductivity for water movement into expanding leaf cells in the absence of transpiration, but growth inhibition at night was much less than in the daytime. N nutrition had no detectable effects on plastic extensibility or the threshold turgor for growth.

2 Permanent address: United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Cotton Research Laboratory, Phoenix, AZ 85040.

1 Supported in part by a Training and Development grant from the Western Region, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service to J. W. R. and by National Science Foundation grant PCM 79-09790 to J. S. B.




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