Nguyen Tran Nguyen, Kazuo Nakabayashi*, Pravat K. Mohapatra, Ju1ian Thompson* and Kounosuke Fujita ‘<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> Faculty ofapphed Biological Science, Hiroshima Umversity Higashi-himshima, 739-8528 Japan; and department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford <\/SPAN><\/I>Way, London XCIHOAP UK<\/I><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> Received <\/SPAN>June 7, 2002<\/SPAN>; accepted in revised form <\/SPAN>October 29, 2002<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> Genetic variation in response to N-deficiency between tropicsal woody plants was assessed by growing two species each of the genus Melaleuca <\/I>(M. leucadendra <\/I>and M. cajuputi) <\/I>and Eucalyptus <\/I>(E. camaldulensis <\/I>and E. tereticornis) <\/I>hydroponically at two levels of N. Biomass, N content and carbohydrate contents of’various plant parts, leaf photosynthetic rate, and photoassimilate distribution were determined in đi the plants at both control N (2.14 mM) and low N (O.36 mM) levels. althongh the Eucalyptus<\/I> genotype grew faster than Melaleuca <\/I>under control conditions, the <\/I>reduction of stem elongation and growth by N deficiency was more severe in Eucalyptus <\/I>species tnan in Melaleuca. <\/I>In the same way as the effect on growth, N deficiency reduced the phntosynthetic rate and leaf area in all the <\/I>species. The better performance at a low. N level of Melaleuca <\/I>compared with Eucalyptus species cold be attributed to the lower reduction of either the <\/I>photosynthetic rate (M cajuputi) <\/I>or the <\/I>leaf area expansion (M. leucadendra). M. <\/I>cajuputi <\/I>had a higher leaf N concentration that was less affected by stress in this species than in the <\/I>others. N-deficiency induced a better N use efficiency in the leaves of Melaleuca <\/I>by enhancing significantly the photosynthetic rate per unit leaf N. In response to N-deficiency, all the <\/I><\/SPAN>plants except for M. cajuputi accumulated a remarkably higher concentration of sugars and starch in different organs like roots, stem, and leaves, but the partitioning of photoassimilates was directed preferentially to the <\/SPAN>growth of the roots in Eucalyptus compared to Melaleuca <\/I>species. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> Although the relative rate of biomass accumulation was positively correlated with the <\/I>N concentration of the <\/I>plant in both genera studied, the associations were stronger and regression coefficients were higher in Eucalyptus <\/I>than in Melaleuca, <\/I>with the crossing p.oints of their regression lines occuring between the values in the low N and control treatments.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> The total N content in the plant enhibited a stronger correlation with N absorption per unit root weight than with the root weight. These results suggesi that Melaleuca <\/I>species are more resistant than Eucalyptus <\/I>to N-deficiency owing to the maintenance of (1) a higher ability of N uptake by roots, (2) higher source activity represented by either the photosynthetic rate or the leaf area, and (3) more efftcient N utilization of the <\/I>source activity at a low N level in the <\/I>gtowth medium.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> Key Words: Eucalyptus, Melaleuca, <\/SPAN><\/I>N-deficiency, photoassimđate partitioning, photosyn- thesis. <\/SPAN><\/FONT>soilsci Plant <\/SPAN><\/I>Nutl., 51 (5), 737-740, 2005<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/SPAN><\/FONT> Note: Contact Web Admin for more detail<\/I> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genetic variation in response to N-deficiency between tropicsal woody plants was assessed by growing two species each of the genus Melaleuca (M. leucadendra and M. cajuputi) and Eucalyptus (E. camaldulensis and E. tereticornis) hydroponically at two levels of N. Biomass, N content and carbohydrate contents of’various plant parts, leaf photosynthetic rate, and photoassimilate distribution were determined in đi the plants at both control N (2.14 mM) and low N (O.36 mM) levels. althongh the Eucalyptus genotype grew faster than Melaleuca under control conditions, the reduction of stem elongation and growth by N deficiency was more severe in Eucalyptus species tnan in Melaleuca. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vafs.gov.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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