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Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 52, No. 362, pp. 1901-1911, September 1, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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Does nitrogen supply affect the response of wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Hanno) to the combination of elevated CO2 and O3?

João Cardoso-Vilhena and Jeremy Barnes1

Air Pollution Laboratory, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, Ridley Building, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK

Spring wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. Hanno) was grown at ambient (350 µmol mol-1) or elevated CO2 (700 µmol mol-1) in charcoal/Purafil®-filtered air (CFA <5 nmol mol-1) or ozone (CFA +75 nmol mol-1 7 h d-1) at three levels of N supply (1.5, 4 and 14 mM NO-3), to test the hypothesis that the combined impacts of elevated CO2 and O3 on plant growth and photosynthetic capacity are affected by nitrogen availability. Shifts in foliar N content reflected the level of N supplied, and the growth stimulation induced by elevated CO2 was dependent on the level of N supply. At 60 d after transfer (DAT), elevated CO2 was found to increase total biomass by 44%, 29%, 12% in plants supplied with 14, 4 and 1.5 mM NO-3, respectively, and there was no evidence of photosynthetic acclimation to elevated CO2 across N treatments; the maximum in vivo rate of Rubisco carboxylation (Vcmax) was similar in plants raised at elevated and ambient CO2. At 60 DAT, ozone exposure was found to suppress plant relative growth rate (RGR) and net photosynthesis (A) in plants supplied with 14 and 4 mM NO-3. However, O3 had no effect on the RGR of plants supplied with 1.5 mM NO-3 and this effect was accompanied by a reduced impact of the pollutant on A. Elevated CO2 counteracted the detrimental effects of O3 (i.e. the same ozone concentration that depressed RGR and A at ambient CO2 resulted in no significant effects when plants were raised at elevated CO2) at all levels of N supply and the effect was associated with a decline in O3 uptake at the leaf level.

Key words: Elevated CO2, tropospheric ozone, N, net photosynthesis, growth.


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