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Journal of Experimental Botany, doi:10.1093/jxb/erg143
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Received October 11, 2002; accepted January 16, 2003
© 2003 Society for Experimental Biology

RESEARCH PAPER

Variation in the shoot calcium content of angiosperms

Martin R. Broadley 1*, Helen C. Bowen 1, Helen L. Cotterill 1, John P. Hammond 1, Mark C. Meacham 1, Andrew Mead 1, Philip J. White 1

1 Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne, Warwick CV35 9EF, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: martin.broadley{at}hri.ac.uk.


  Abstract

This study describes the variation in the mean relative shoot Ca content within the angiosperms at the ordinal level. Data were derived from studies in the literature in which the shoot Ca content of two or more species had been compared, and from a hydroponic experiment in which plants were selected to represent the relative number of species within each angiosperm order. Across all angiosperms, most of the variation in shoot Ca content occurred at and above the level of the order. Relative shoot Ca contents and variances correlated between literature and experimental data. In general, orders of commelinoid monocots had lower Ca contents than other monocot or eudicot orders. These results are used to illustrate how physiological and ecological hypotheses can be formulated using literature data.

Key words: Calcium, cation, nutrient-film technique (NFT), plant mineral content, residual maximum likelihood (REML) analyses, phylogeny.


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