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Detecting long-term metabolic shifts using isotopomers: CO2-driven suppression of photorespiration in C3 plants over the 20th century. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:15585-90. [PMID: 26644588 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504493112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Terrestrial vegetation currently absorbs approximately a third of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, mitigating the rise of atmospheric CO2. However, terrestrial net primary production is highly sensitive to atmospheric CO2 levels and associated climatic changes. In C3 plants, which dominate terrestrial vegetation, net photosynthesis depends on the ratio between photorespiration and gross photosynthesis. This metabolic flux ratio depends strongly on CO2 levels, but changes in this ratio over the past CO2 rise have not been analyzed experimentally. Combining CO2 manipulation experiments and deuterium NMR, we first establish that the intramolecular deuterium distribution (deuterium isotopomers) of photosynthetic C3 glucose contains a signal of the photorespiration/photosynthesis ratio. By tracing this isotopomer signal in herbarium samples of natural C3 vascular plant species, crops, and a Sphagnum moss species, we detect a consistent reduction in the photorespiration/photosynthesis ratio in response to the ∼100-ppm CO2 increase between ∼1900 and 2013. No difference was detected in the isotopomer trends between beet sugar samples covering the 20th century and CO2 manipulation experiments, suggesting that photosynthetic metabolism in sugar beet has not acclimated to increasing CO2 over >100 y. This provides observational evidence that the reduction of the photorespiration/photosynthesis ratio was ca. 25%. The Sphagnum results are consistent with the observed positive correlations between peat accumulation rates and photosynthetic rates over the Northern Hemisphere. Our results establish that isotopomers of plant archives contain metabolic information covering centuries. Our data provide direct quantitative information on the "CO2 fertilization" effect over decades, thus addressing a major uncertainty in Earth system models.
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de Faria AP, Fernandes GW, França MGC. Predicting the impact of increasing carbon dioxide concentration and temperature on seed germination and seedling establishment of African grasses in Brazilian Cerrado. AUSTRAL ECOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Ana Paula de Faria
- Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brasil
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- Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brasil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brasil
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Uscola M, Villar-Salvador P, Gross P, Maillard P. Fast growth involves high dependence on stored resources in seedlings of Mediterranean evergreen trees. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2015; 115:1001-13. [PMID: 25817313 PMCID: PMC4407060 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcv019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Revised: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 01/21/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) needed for plant growth can come either from soil N and current photosynthesis or through remobilization of stored resources. The contribution of remobilization to new organ growth on a whole-plant basis is quite well known in deciduous woody plants and evergreen conifers, but this information is very limited in broadleaf evergreen trees. This study compares the contribution of remobilized C and N to the construction of new organs in spring, and assesses the importance of different organs as C and N sources in 1-year-old potted seedlings of four ecologically distinct evergreen Mediterranean trees, namely Quercus ilex, Q. coccifera, Olea europaea and Pinus hapelensis. METHODS Dual (13)C and (15)N isotope labelling was used to unravel the contribution of currently taken up and stored C and N to new growth. Stored C was labelled under simulated winter conditions. Soil N was labelled with the fertilization during the spring growth. KEY RESULTS Oaks allocated most C assimilated under simulated winter conditions to coarse roots, while O. europaea and P. halepensis allocated it to the leaves. Remobilization was the main N source (>74 %) for new fine-root growth in early spring, but by mid-spring soil supplied most of the N required for new growth (>64 %). Current photosynthesis supplied >60 % of the C in new fine roots by mid-spring in most species. Across species, the proportion of remobilized C and N in new shoots increased with the relative growth rate. Quercus species, the slowest growing trees, primarily used currently acquired resources, while P. halepensis, the fastest growing species, mainly used reserves. Increases in the amount of stored N increased N remobilization, which fostered absolute growth both within and across species. Old leaves were major sources of remobilized C and N, but stems and roots also supplied considerable amounts of both in all species except in P. halepensis, which mainly relied on foliage formed in the previous growing season to supply stored resources. CONCLUSIONS Seedlings of Mediterranean evergreen trees have distinct C and N storage physiologies, with relative growth rate driving the contribution of remobilized resources to new growth. These differences may reduce competition and facilitate species coexistence.
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- Mercedes Uscola
- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, UD Ecología, Apdo. 20, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain and INRA Nancy, UMR 1137 INRA/UL Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, UD Ecología, Apdo. 20, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain and INRA Nancy, UMR 1137 INRA/UL Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, UD Ecología, Apdo. 20, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain and INRA Nancy, UMR 1137 INRA/UL Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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- Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, UD Ecología, Apdo. 20, Universidad de Alcalá, E-28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain and INRA Nancy, UMR 1137 INRA/UL Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, F-54280 Champenoux, France
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Aljazairi S, Arias C, Nogués S. Carbon and nitrogen allocation and partitioning in traditional and modern wheat genotypes under pre-industrial and future CO₂ conditions. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2015; 17:647-59. [PMID: 25353972 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2014] [Accepted: 10/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The results of a simultaneous (13)C and (15)N labelling experiment with two different durum wheat cultivars, Blanqueta (a traditional wheat) and Sula (modern), are presented. Plants were grown from the seedling stage in three fully controllable plant growth chambers for one growing season and at three different CO₂ levels (i.e. 260, 400 and 700 ppm). Short-term isotopic labelling (ca. 3 days) was performed at the anthesis stage using (13)CO₂ supplied with the chamber air and (15)NH₄₋(15)NO₃ applied with the nutrient solution, thereby making it possible to track the allocation and partitioning of (13)C and (15) N in the different plant organs. We found that photosynthesis was up-regulated at pre-industrial CO₂ levels, whereas down-regulation occurred under future CO₂ conditions. (13)C labelling revealed that at pre-industrial CO₂ carbon investment by plants was higher in shoots, whereas at future CO₂ levels more C was invested in roots. Furthermore, the modern genotype invested more C in spikes than did the traditional genotype, which in turn invested more in non-reproductive shoot tissue. (15)N labelling revealed that the modern genotype was better adapted to assimilating N at higher CO₂ levels, whereas the traditional genotype was able to assimilate N more efficiently at lower CO₂ levels.
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- S Aljazairi
- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Aljazairi S, Arias C, Sánchez E, Lino G, Nogués S. Effects of pre-industrial, current and future [CO2] in traditional and modern wheat genotypes. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 171:1654-1663. [PMID: 25173452 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2014.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Revised: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 07/08/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Wheat is one of the most important cereal food crops in the world today. The productivity and quality of this crop is greatly affected by environmental conditions during grain filling. In this study, we have analyzed two genotypes of durum wheat, Blanqueta and Sula (traditional and a modern wheat respectively) in pre-industrial, current and future [CO2]. Plant growth and physiological parameters were analyzed during anthesis and grain filling in order to study the capacity of these plants to create new sinks and their role during the process of the acclimation of photosynthesis. It was observed that plants underwent photosynthetic acclimation at pre-industrial and future [CO2] (up and down-regulation respectively). However, the modern genotype averts the process of down-regulation by creating a new carbon sink (i.e. the spike). Here, we have shown the essential role that the spike plays as a new sink in order to avert the down-regulation of photosynthesis at future [CO2]. Moreover, we have demonstrated that at future [CO2] the growth response will depend on the ability of plants to develop new sinks or expand existing ones.
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- Salvador Aljazairi
- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal, Departament de Biologia Vegetal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 645, Barcelona, Spain
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During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 18,000-20,000 yr ago) and previous glacial periods, atmospheric [CO(2)] dropped to 180-190 ppm, which is among the lowest concentrations that occurred during the evolution of land plants. Modern atmospheric CO(2) concentrations ([CO(2)]) are more than twice those of the LGM and 45% higher than pre-industrial concentrations. Since CO(2) is the carbon source for photosynthesis, lower carbon availability during glacial periods likely had a major impact on plant productivity and evolution. From the studies highlighted here, it is clear that the influence of low [CO(2)] transcends several scales, ranging from physiological effects on individual plants to changes in ecosystem functioning, and may have even influenced the development of early human cultures (via the timing of agriculture). Through low-[CO(2)] studies, we have determined a baseline for plant response to minimal [CO(2)] that occurred during the evolution of land plants. Moreover, an increased understanding of plant responses to low [CO(2)] contributes to our knowledge of how natural global change factors in the past may continue to influence plant responses to future anthropogenic changes. Future work, however, should focus more on the evolutionary responses of plants to changing [CO(2)] in order to account for the potentially large effects of genetic change.
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- Laci M Gerhart
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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Villar-Salvador P, Heredia N, Millard P. Remobilization of acorn nitrogen for seedling growth in holm oak (Quercus ilex), cultivated with contrasting nutrient availability. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2010; 30:257-263. [PMID: 20022863 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpp115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The relative contribution of nitrogen (N) reserves from seeds or uptake by the roots to the growth and N content of young seedlings has received little attention. In this study, we investigated the contribution of N from the acorn or uptake by the roots to the N content of holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) seedlings and determined if remobilization of acorn N was affected by nutrient availability in the growing media. Q. ilex seedlings were cultivated for 3 months, until the end of the second shoot flush of growth, with three N fertilization rates: 8.6 mM N, 1.4 mM N or no fertilization. Fertilizer N was enriched in (15)N. Between 62 and 75% of the N contained in high and low fertilized seedlings, respectively, at the end of the second flush of growth was derived from the acorn. However, the dependence on acorn N was greater during the early root growth and first shoot flush of growth and decreased during the second shoot flush of growth, with root uptake contributing 32-54% of plant new N in this latter developmental stage in high and low fertilized plants, respectively. Fertilization rate did not affect the amount of N taken up during the earliest developmental stages, but it increased it during the second shoot flush of growth. Fertilization increased the mass of the shoot segment formed during the second shoot flush of growth and reduced the root mass, with no effect on whole plant growth. Remobilization of acorn N was faster in unfertilized plants than in fertilized plants. It is concluded that the holm oak seedlings depend greatly upon acorn N until the end of the second shoot flush of growth, that significant root N uptake starts at the beginning of the second shoot flush of growth and that acorn N remobilization is a plastic process that is accelerated under extremely low substratum nutrient content.
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- Pedro Villar-Salvador
- Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Alcalá, ctra N-II 33,500 Alcalá de Henares, 28871 Madrid, Spain.
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Gamnitzer U, Schäufele R, Schnyder H. Observing 13C labelling kinetics in CO2 respired by a temperate grassland ecosystem. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2009; 184:376-386. [PMID: 19656304 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02963.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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* The kinetic characteristics of the main sources of ecosystem respiration are quite unknown, partly because of methodological constraints. Here, we present a new open-top chamber (OTC) apparatus for continuous 13C/12C labelling and measurement of ecosystem CO2 fluxes, and report the tracer kinetics of nighttime respiration of a temperate grassland. * The apparatus includes four dynamic flow-through OTCs, a unit mixing CO2-free air with 13C-depleted CO2, and a CO2 analyser and an online isotope ratio mass spectrometer. * The concentration (367 +/- 6.5 micromol mol(-1)) and carbon isotopic composition, delta13C, (-46.9 +/- 0.4 per thousand) of CO2 in the OTCs were stable during photosynthesis as a result of high air through flux and minimal incursion through the buffered vent. Soil CO2 efflux was not affected by pressure effects during respiration measurements. The labelling kinetics of respiratory CO2 measured in the field agreed with that of excised soil + vegetation blocks measured in a laboratory-based system. The kinetics fitted a two-source system (r(2) = 0.97), with a rapidly labelled source (half-life 2.6 d) supplying 48% of respiration, and the other source (52%) releasing no tracer during 14 d of labelling. * Of the two sources supplying ecosystem respiration, one was closely connected to current photosynthesis (approximately autotrophic respiration) and the other was provided by decomposition of structural plant biomass (approximately heterotrophic respiration).
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- Ulrike Gamnitzer
- Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Technische Universität München Am Hochanger 1, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Technische Universität München Am Hochanger 1, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Technische Universität München Am Hochanger 1, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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Zheng Y, Rimmington GM, Xie Z, Zhang L, An P, Zhou G, Li X, Yu Y, Chen L, Shimizu H. Responses to air temperature and soil moisture of growth of four dominant species on sand dunes of central Inner Mongolia. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2008; 121:473-482. [PMID: 18553124 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-008-0172-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2007] [Accepted: 04/19/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Little attention has been paid to how four dominant shrub species distributed in semi-arid areas respond to the combined effects of temperature and water supply. Seedlings of four species were grown in a glasshouse for eight weeks at air temperatures of 12.5/22.5, 15/25, 17.5/27.5, and 20/30 degrees C (night/day) and with water supplies of 37.5, 75, 112.5, and 150 mm per month. When temperatures were 17.5/27.5 and 20/30 degrees C relative growth rate (RGR) decreased for Artemisia ordosica, A. sphaerocephala, and Hedysarum laeve but not for Caragana korshinskii. RGR increased with increasing water availability for all four species and most treatments. In response to changing water availability, the RGR tended to correlate mainly with the physiological trait (net assimilation rate, NAR) and with dry matter allocation traits (below-ground to above-ground dry matter and leaf mass ratio). A higher ratio of below to above-ground dry matter for all four species under most treatments (0.3-1.7) and water-use efficiency (1.4-9.2 g kg(-1)) may explain how all four species survive drought. Higher temperatures may be harmful to A. ordosica and A. sphaerocephala, under current precipitation levels (average 75 mm per month from mid-June to mid-August). These findings support the proposal that A. ordosica mixed with C. korshinskii will prove optimal for re-vegetation of degraded areas of the Ordos plateau.
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- Yuanrun Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, 100093, Beijing, China.
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Bathellier C, Badeck FW, Couzi P, Harscoët S, Mauve C, Ghashghaie J. Divergence in delta(13)C of dark respired CO(2) and bulk organic matter occurs during the transition between heterotrophy and autotrophy in Phaseolus vulgaris plants. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2007; 177:406-418. [PMID: 17953651 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02246.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Substantial evidence has been published in recent years demonstrating that postphotosynthetic fractionations occur in plants, leading to (13)C-enrichment in heterotrophic (as compared with autotrophic) organs. However, less is known about the mechanism responsible for changes in these responses during plant development. The isotopic signature of both organic matter and respired CO(2) for different organs of French bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) was investigated during early ontogeny, in order to identify the developmental stage at which isotopic changes occur. Isotopic analyses of metabolites and mass balance calculations helped to constrain the metabolic processes involved. At the plant scale, apparent respiratory fractionation was constantly positive in the heterotrophic phase (c. 1 per thousand) and turned negative with autotrophy acquisition (down to -3.08 per thousand). Initially very close to that of the dry seed (-26.83 +/- 0.69 per thousand), isotopic signatures of organic matter and respired CO(2) diverged (in opposite directions) in leaves and roots after onset of photosynthesis. Respired CO(2) reached values up to -20 per thousand in leaves and became (13)C-depleted down to -29 per thousand in roots. It was concluded that isotopic differences between organs occurred subsequent to metabolic changes in the seedling during the transition from heterotrophy to autotrophy. They were especially related to respiration and respiratory fractionation.
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- Camille Bathellier
- Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution (ESE), CNRS-UMR 8079 - IFR 87, Bâtiment 362, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), PO Box 601203, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UMR 1272, Physiologie de l'Insecte: Signalisation et Communication (PISC), Route de Saint Cyr, F-78026 Versailles cedex, France
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution (ESE), CNRS-UMR 8079 - IFR 87, Bâtiment 362, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Plateforme 'Métabolisme-Métabolome', IFR 87 Plante et son Environnement, Institut de Biotechnologie des Plantes, Bâtiment 630, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution (ESE), CNRS-UMR 8079 - IFR 87, Bâtiment 362, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
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