- Potassium deficiency affects the carbon-nitrogen balance in cotton leaves.
Potassium deficiency affects the carbon-nitrogen balance in cotton leaves.
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB (2017-04-26)
Wei Hu, Taylor D Coomer, Dimitra A Loka, Derrick M Oosterhuis, Zhiguo Zhou
PMID28441628
ABSTRACT
Potassium (K) plays important roles in the metabolism of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), but studies of K deficiency affecting C-N balance are lacking. This study explored the influence of K deficiency on C-N interaction in cotton leaves by conducting a field experiment with cotton cultivar DP0912 under two K rates (K0: 0 kg K