Micronutrient Requirements for Green Plants, Especially Algae

Eyster, Clyde

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“…We note that Emiliania (as Coccolithus) huxleyi, an organism which may well rely on CO2 diffusion, has been shown to have carbonic anhydrase activity (Steeman Nielson, 1966), although direct comparisons with cells with CO2-concentrating mechanisms are not available. The much greater Zn requirement for photolithotrophic growth than for chemo-organotrophic growth of the freshwater Chlorella pyrenidosa (Eyster, 1964) is probably related to greater carbonic anhydrase content of phototrophic cells.…”

Section: Other Elementsmentioning

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Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO₂ and temperature

Raven

1991

Plant Cell & Environment

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Abstract. Photosynthesis by many marine phytoplankton algae is saturated by the inorganic C concentration in air‐equilibrated sea water. These organisms appear to use an active inorganic C transport process (CO2‐concentrating mechanism) which increases the CO2 concentration around rubisco and saturates this enzyme with CO2 and suppresses its oxygenase activity. A minority of marine phytoplankton algae have photosynthetic characteristics more suggestive of diffusive CO2 entry; the inorganic C concentration present in sea water does not saturate photosynthesis by these organisms. Theoretical considerations, tested when possible against observation, suggest that the organisms with a CO2‐concentrating mechanism could have a lower cost of photons, nitrogen, iron, manganese and molybdenum to achieve a given rate of carbon accumulation by the cells than is the case for the organisms with diffusive CO2 entry. Zinc and selenium costs may show the reverse effect. The increased sea‐surface inorganic C, and CO2 concentrations which will result from anthropogenic increases in atmospheric CO2 content are predicted to increase the rate of photosynthesis, and of growth when other resources are abundant, and to reduce, or reverse, the higher resource (photons, nitrogen, iron, manganese and molybdenum) cost of a given rate of CO2 assimilation in organisms with CO2 diffusion relative to those which have CO2 concentrating mechanisms and do not repress them at higher inorganic C concentrations. These effects may well alter species composition, and overall resource cost of growth, of phytoplankton; any influence that these effects may have on CO2 removal from the atmosphere are severely constrained by other trophic levels and, especially, oceanic circulation patterns. Changed sea‐surface temperatures are unlikely to qualitatively alter these conclusions.

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Section: Other Elementsmentioning

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Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO₂ and temperature

Raven

1991

Plant Cell & Environment

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“…No single factor acting alone determines the structure of algal communities of natural streams (Blum 1956 ;Eyster 1964) . However, in streams receiving acid mine drainage, algal communities are influenced by acidity (Bennett 1969) .…”

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A step-wise discriminant analysis of the effects of long term coal mine drainage and coal dredging on phytoplankton of the Guyandotte River

Weaks

1982

Hydrobiologia

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Phytoplankton was sampled from the lower 60 miles portion of the Guyandotte River where three active coal dredging operations presently exist and five more permits are pending . Comparisons were made with phytoplankton from a similar stretch of the Mud River, a stream of minimal mine drainage and no coal dredges along its entire course .Diatoms were the predominant planktonic algae on both streams . The number of all phytoplankton species was 24% higher for the Mud River than for the Guyandotte River . Equitability and species diversity indices plus the distribution of mine water indicator algae show that the Guyandotte River is heavily polluted with domestic wastes and mine drainage . No correlation could be established for turbidity, specific conductance, or pH and locations of dredging operations, when the data were analyzed for differences among sampling stations .Step-wise discriminant analysis was used to compare the two streams and the biological, physical, and chemical variables . Based on coefficients for canonical variables, conductivity and pH are the two most influential variables in separating the two streams . Analysis of variance indicates that the canonical means of the stations on the Guyandotte River are significantly different from the Mud River stations .

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“…Causative agents are excessive quantities of nitrates and especially, phosphates. Micronutrients and minerals rarely limit algae populations (Eyster 1964;Hutchinson 1969). Accelerated eutrophication can: (1) change plant and animal communities;…”

Section: Eutrophicationmentioning

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1984

Fisheries

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Micronutrient Requirements for Green Plants, Especially Algae

Cited by 25 publications

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Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO₂ and temperature

Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO₂ and temperature

A step-wise discriminant analysis of the effects of long term coal mine drainage and coal dredging on phytoplankton of the Guyandotte River

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Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO2 and temperature

Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO2 and temperature

A step-wise discriminant analysis of the effects of long term coal mine drainage and coal dredging on phytoplankton of the Guyandotte River

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Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO₂ and temperature

Physiology of inorganic C acquisition and implications for resource use efficiency by marine phytoplankton: relation to increased CO₂ and temperature