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Spectroscopic analysis reveals that soil phosphorus availability and plant allocation strategies impact feedstock quality of nutrient-limited switchgrass
The perennial native switchgrass adapts better than other plant species do to marginal soils with low plant-available nutrients, including those with...
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Biomass Energy Utilization, Conversion Technologies
The world’s energy demands rely heavily on the fossil fuels as a source of thermal energy. Increasing energy demands, depleting sources of fuels, and...
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Enhanced photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency and increased nitrogen allocation to photosynthetic machinery under cotton domestication
Domestication involves dramatic phenotypic and physiological diversifications due to successive selection by breeders toward high yield and quality....
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Above- and belowground biomass allocation and its regulation by plant density in six common grassland species in China
Above- and belowground biomass allocation is an essential plant functional trait that reflects plant survival strategies and affects belowground...
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Diurnal dynamics can modify plant–microbial competition for N uptake via C allocation
Plant–microbial competition for N in the rhizosphere affects net primary production and N cycling, and depends on plant physiological factors,...
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Effects of Different Water and Potassium Supply on Glucose, Fructose, and Sucrose Carbon Allocation in Tomato Fruit
The sugar accumulation in tomato fruit is a complex physiological process, which is closely related to the supplies of water and mineral nutrients to...
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Symbiotic dinoflagellates divert energy away from mutualism during coral bleaching recovery
The future of coral reefs in a warming world depends on corals’ ability to recover from bleaching, the loss of their symbiotic dinoflagellate algae...
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Anatomical plasticity and starch allocation in an invasive grass in response to fire
Investigating the effects caused by different fire frequencies on the tissue thickness of vegetative organs and the concentration of starch reserves...
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Energy acquisition strategy for reproduction in a semelparous squid
BackgroundEnergy demand for reproduction leads to a wide diversity of foraging and life-history strategy among wild animals, linking to a common...
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Nitrogen Acquisition and Allocation Traits in Peanuts with Different Nodulation Efficiency Revealed by the 15N Tracer Analysis
The study aims to evaluate the difference of nitrogen (N) utilization in peanut varieties with different nodulation efficiency and the contribution...
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Mechanisms of Microbial Energy Conservation
The primary “purpose” of microbial catabolism is to recover from the environment usable energy and to convert this energy into ATP. This chapter...
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Long-term fertilizer application alters microbial resource limitations in soil aggregates via nutrient and microbial resource allocation
AimsEcological stoichiometry reflects the stability of resources in farmland ecosystems. Long-term fertilization modulates soil nutrient resources in...
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Different Energy Management Strategies for Clean Energy
Energy production is viewed today as one of the main culprits in polluting the atmosphere with respect to greenhouse emissions. Several works are...
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Rice Canopy Light Resources Allocation, Leaf Net Photosynthetic Rate, and Yield Formation Characteristics Response to Combined Application of Nitrogen and Potassium
Fertilizers play vital roles in agricultural production, especially for nitrogen (N) and potassium (K). The plant canopy is the main site for...
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Cunninghamia lanceolata sprout population structure, dynamics and biomass allocation changes during Phyllostachys edulis expansion in middleō-southern China
Key messageChinese fir sprouting population lifespan is shortened and survivorship situation and biomass are also changed by bamboo expansion via...
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Assessment of Carbon and Energy Footprint of Sugarcane Production in India
This study aims to analyze and compare the carbon emissions (CE) and energy use patterns of sugarcane crops in different states of India as per the...
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Food availability in the nursery affects parental food allocation but not tadpole begging performance in a frog with facultative parental care
Parents often have the opportunity to invest in offspring that offer different returns, with such variation arising from factors intrinsic to the...
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Energy Balance and Thermoregulation
Birds are endotherms and maintain their body temperatures with heat produced by cell metabolism. The energy consumed at rest, or the basal metabolic...
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Predictions of rhizosphere microbiome dynamics with a genome-informed and trait-based energy budget model
Soil microbiomes are highly diverse, and to improve their representation in biogeochemical models, microbial genome data can be leveraged to infer...
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Newly assimilated carbon allocation in grassland communities under different grazing enclosure times
The flow of photosynthesized carbon (C) from plants to soil and its loss from the respiration in the soil-plant system were measured via in situ 13 CO 2 ...
