Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis

  • Xiangzhong Luo,
  • Trevor F. Keenan,
  • Jing M. Chen,
  • Holly Croft,
  • I. Colin Prentice,
  • Nicholas G. Smith,
  • Anthony P. Walker,
  • Han Wang,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Chonggang Xu,
  • Yao Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25163-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to RuBisCO indicates differing nitrogen use strategies of plants and varies considerably. Here the authors show that this variation is largely driven by leaf thickness and phosphorus content with light intensity, atmospheric dryness and soil pH also having considerable influence.