Claim · model-written summary
Soluble carbohydrate content of above-ground biomass was 5-48% higher in elevated CO2 at most measuring times during the growing season.
- Taxon
- Festuca pratensis
Festuca pratensise0 - Organ / stage
- above-ground biomasse7
- Treatment
- elevated CO2e7
- Outcome
- soluble carbohydrate contente7
- Direction
- highere7
- Value
- 5-48%e7
- Qualifier
- at most of the measuring times during the growing seasone7
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Field-sown meadow fescue (Festuca pratensis, cv. Kalevi) stands were exposed to elevated temperatures (+3°C) and elevated CO2, (700 ppm) levels in two experiments conducted in 1992-1993 (experiment 1) and in 1994-1995 (experiment 2)”
e7“The soluble carbohydrate content of above-ground biomass was 5-48% higher in elevated CO2 at most of the measuring times during the growing season, but the nitrogen content did not show a clear decrease”
Title
Kaija Hakala; Timo Mela Agricultural and Food Science 1996. doi:10.23986/afsci.72747
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Elevated temperature (+3°C) increased total aboveground yield of field-sown meadow fescue by 38% on average relative to ambient temperature.
- Intervention effect At ambient temperatures, elevated CO2 increased tiller number by 63% in 1992.
- Intervention effect At ambient temperatures, elevated CO2 increased tiller number by 24% in 1993.
- Intervention effect At ambient temperatures, elevated CO2 increased tiller number by 90% in 1994.
- Intervention effect At ambient temperatures, elevated CO2 increased tiller number by 14% in 1995.
- Intervention effect At elevated temperatures, the elevated CO2 increase in tiller number was seen only in the first growing seasons after sowing.
- Intervention effect In experiment 1, total yield in a growing season was about 10% higher in elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect In experiment 2, at elevated temperatures, yield was more than 20% higher in elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect In experiment 2, at ambient temperatures, the rise in CO2 level had no effect on yield.
- Intervention effect In experiment 2, root biomass increased by more than 30% with the rise in CO2 level.
- Intervention effect In elevated CO2 at ambient temperatures, root biomass also increased in experiment I.
- Intervention effect At elevated temperatures, root biomass showed no consistent change in elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen content of the biomass did not show a clear decrease in elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased photosynthesis by 40-60%.
- Intervention effect Biomass showed a lack of a marked increase in elevated CO2, despite the 40-60% rise in photosynthesis.