Hydroponic experiments were conducted to investigate vanadium uptake by Chinese green mustard and tomato plants and its effect on their growth. Twenty-eight (Chinese green mustard) and 79 days (tomato) after germination, the plants were exposed for a further seven days to a solution containing six different concentrations of ammonium metavanadate (0-80 mg/l NH4VO3). The vanadium accumulated in ...

Before leaf analysis can be successfully used as a guide in diagnosing nutritional status and as a basis for fertilizer recommendations in fruit trees, a standardized leaf sampling technique must be established. Position of sampled leaves and time of sampling are the most important factors in ascertaining the nutritional status of fruit trees. The sampling should be done when the variation in n...

Wood contains the majority of the nutrients in tropical trees, yet controls over wood nutrient concentrations and their function are poorly understood. We measured wood nutrient concentrations in 106 tree species in 10 forest plots spanning a regional fertility gradient in Panama. For a subset of species, we quantified foliar nutrients and wood density to test whether wood nutrients scale with ...

Roasted stem tea has a characteristic flavour, which is obtained by roasting tea stems, by-product of green tea production. The difference between roasted stem and leaf tea derived from the same tea plants were investigated using GC–MS. Pyrazine compounds exhibited a roasted odour and high flavour dilution (FD) factors, as determined via aroma extract dilution analysis (AEDA). Roasted stem tea ...

Identifying the linkages between nutrient properties and plant size is important for reducing uncertainty in understanding the mechanisms of plant phenotypic plasticity. Although the positive effects of grazing exclusion on plant morphological plasticity has been well documented, surprisingly little is known about the relationship of nutrient strategies with plant shoot size after long-term gra...

The microbially mediated transformation of detrital P entering wetlands has important implications for the cycling and long-term sequestration of P in wetland soils. We investigated changes in P forms in sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense Crantz) and cattail (Typha domingensis Pers.) leaf litter during 15 months of decomposition at two sites of markedly different nutrient status within a hard-water s...

Consumption of plant extracts can be a source of essential elements or a route of human exposure to toxicants. Metal concentrations in leaves, leaf brew, and infusion of L. javanica collected from five sites were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry after acid and aqueous extraction. Estimated daily intakes of metals in extracts were compared with recommended dietary allowances. Total m...

THE fermentation of the tea leaf is a stage in the manufacturing process of tea which has received but little attention in the past. Various qualitative studies have been made at the several Tea Research Institutes but no thorough investigation has been made apart from that of Oparin et al. [1935]. Results in this field have a considerable commercial use and they are also ofinterest to the bioc...

According to theory, the rate and stoichiometry of microbial mineralization depend, in part, on nutrient availability. For microbes associated with leaves in streams, nutrients are available from both the water column and the leaf. Therefore, microbial nutrient cycling may change with nutrient availability and during leaf decomposition. We explored spatial and temporal patterns of mineralizatio...