Alterations in the metabolic fingerprint of Cladonia portentosa in response to atmospheric nitrogen deposition
Autor: | Sabine Freitag, Simon C. Thain, Peter D. Crittenden, Erika J. Hogan, Gordon G. Allison |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Lichens
Nitrogen Physiology Range (biology) Rain chemistry.chemical_element Plant Science Sand dune stabilization Polysaccharides Spectroscopy Fourier Transform Infrared Genetics Temperate climate Amino Acids Lichen Bog geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Atmosphere Chemistry Proteins Cell Biology General Medicine biology.organism_classification United Kingdom Deposition (aerosol physics) Environmental chemistry Metabolome Regression Analysis Cladonia portentosa Algorithms |
Zdroj: | Physiologia Plantarum. 143:107-114 |
ISSN: | 0031-9317 |
Popis: | Nitrogen availability has profound ecological consequences in nutrient-limited systems. In terrestrial settings these would include the upland heaths, sand dunes and blanket bogs of temperate latitudes. Understanding the physiological consequences of nitrogen enrichment is a first critical step in predicting possible consequences. Results are presented from a metabolic fingerprinting study using Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) to detect biochemical differences in the lichen Cladonia portentosa collected from 25 sites across mainland Britain varying in their nitrogen input. Partial least-squares regression analysis of the FTIR data demonstrated that changes in broad biochemical classes were consistently correlated with mean annual wet inorganic nitrogen deposition loads. These results demonstrated a direct coupling of a broad range of metabolic processes in C. portentosa to nitrogen deposition. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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