| Nutrient Acquisition in a C02 Enriched World |
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| Written by Staff |
| Wednesday, 31 October 2012 00:00 |
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For the Full Report in PDF Form, please click here. [Illustrations, footnotes and references available in PDF version] On a per-unit-biomass basis, Smart et al. (1998) noted there were no differences in the total amounts of nitrogen within CO2-enriched and ambiently-grown wheat seedlings after three weeks of exposure to atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 360 and 1,000 ppm. Nevertheless, the CO2-enriched seedlings exhibited greater rates of soil nitrate extraction than did the ambient-grown plants.
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