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Effect of potassium status on K + (Rb) + uptake and transport in sunflower roots
Author(s) -
Diaz de la Guardia Manuel,
Fournier José M.,
Benlloch Manuel
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
physiologia plantarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.351
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1399-3054
pISSN - 0031-9317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1985.tb01899.x
Subject(s) - apoplast , helianthus annuus , exudate , xylem , sunflower , shoot , potassium , stele , nutrient , chemistry , helianthus , botany , sieve tube element , symplast , horticulture , phloem , biology , cell wall , organic chemistry
Young sunflower plants ( Helianthus annuus L. cv. Halcón), grown in nutrient solution at two K + levels (0.25 and 2.5 m M ) were used to study the effect of K + content in the root on uptake and transport of K + to the exuding stream of decapitated plants. Roots of plants grown in low K + gave higher exudation flux, higher K + concentration in exudate and higher K + flux than high K + roots. After 6 h of uptake the K + flux in low K + roots was about three times that in high K + roots. When the roots were kept in a nutrient solution in which Rb + replaced K + , low K + roots exuded much more Rb + than K + after the first 2 h, whereas high K + roots exuded about similar amounts of K + and Rb + . In intact plants grown at three different K + levels (0.1, 1.0 and 10.0 m M ), there was an inverse relationship between the K + level in the nutrient solution and the Rb + accumulated in the roots or transported to the shoot. The results suggest that the transport of ions from xylem parenchyma to stele apoplast may be controlled by ions coming down from the shoot in sieve tubes.