| Differing organic Acid exudation pattern explains calcifuge and acidifuge behaviour of plants. | |
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PMID: 21247915 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Many vascular plant species are unable to colonize calcareous sites. Thus, the floristic composition of adjacent limestone and acid silicate soils differs greatly. The inability of calcifuge plants to establish in limestone sites seems related to a low capacity of such plants to solubilize and absorb Fe or phosphate from these soils. Until now, mechanisms regulating this differing ability of plants to colonize limestone sites have not been elucidated. We propose that contrasting exudation of low-molecular organic acids is a major mechanism involved and show that germinating seeds and young seedlings of limestone plants exude considerably more di- and tricarboxylic acids than calcifuges, which mainly exude monocarboxylic acids. The tricarboxylic citric acid is a powerful extractor of Fe, and the dicarboxylic oxalic acid a very effective extractor of phosphate from limestone soils. Monocarboxylic acids are very weak in these respects. The study is based on ten species from limestone soils and ten species from acid silicate soils. |
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G Tyler; L Ström |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Annals of botany Volume: 75 ISSN: 0305-7364 ISO Abbreviation: Ann. Bot. Publication Date: 1995 Jan |
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Created Date: 2011-01-20 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0372347 Medline TA: Ann Bot Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 75-8 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Ecology, University of Lund, Ecology Building, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden. |
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