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Carbon allocation among bunchgrass tillers was examined with carbon-11 (11CO2) steady state labelling. Labelled carbon was continuously transported from parent tillers to anatomically attached daughter tillers at a time when morphological characteristics indicated that tiller maturation had occurred. Steady state levels of import into monitored daughter tillers increased within 30 min of either defoliation or shading. Import levels decreased within 30 min of the removal of shading, but remained accelerated throughout an 84 h observation period following defoliation. A second defoliation further increased carbon import into a monitored tiller above the previously accelerated level resulting from the initial defoliation. Carbon import by vegetative tillers in the two bunchgrass species examined may be most appropriately viewed as a series of potentially accelerated import levels above a low level of continuous import.
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Welker, J.M., Rykiel, E.J., Briske, D.D. et al. Carbon import among vegetative tillers within two bunchgrasses: assessment with carbon-11 labelling. Oecologia 67, 209–212 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384285
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