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Plant Physiology Lab
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A lab that uses ecophysiology to explore how plants interact with their environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding plant–environment interactions through ecophysiology.
The Irving Lab studies how plants interact with their biotic and abiotic environments.
It is said that plant productivity is held below its potential by stresses such as drought, nutrient shortage, disease, and parasites.
For this reason, the lab considers it important to understand the factors that limit production.
The relationships between parasitic plants and their hosts are studied using rootboxes and isotope tracers.
The lab also studies how plants extend their roots and how this affects competition between plants.
Key terms
- Parasitic plant
- A plant that obtains resources from a host plant. Hemiparasites still photosynthesize, while holoparasites do not
- Rootbox
- A growing container that allows the resource supply to each plant to be controlled separately and precisely
- Isotope tracer
- A method that labels plants with 13CO2 or 15N to measure how much of a resource moves between plants
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to understand how environmental factors affect plant competition and productivity. It studies the relationships between parasitic plants and their hosts, and how plants respond to uneven nutrient distribution.
*Illustrative imageParasitic Plants and Their Hosts
Using the facultative hemiparasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum (koshiogama) and the holoparasitic plant Orobanche minor (yaseutsubo), the lab investigates how environmental factors affect the relationship with the host. Rootboxes and isotope tracers are used to measure the flow of resources between plants.
*Illustrative imageRoot Responses to Uneven Nutrient Distribution
The lab studies how plants extend their roots when nutrients are unevenly distributed, and how this affects competition between plants. Some species grow more roots in nutrient-rich patches, and the lab explores the physiological reasons for this.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorLouis J Irving
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Plants in the Temple Greenhouse - geograph.org.uk - 3382269” David Lally / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Parasitic Plants and Their Hosts: “Common Broomrape (Orobanche minor)” AnemoneProjectors (talk) / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Root Responses to Uneven Nutrient Distribution: “Root bound palm tree” B137 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Plant Physiology Lab (IRVING Louis John)): “Orobanche parasite plant in Umm Haratayn al-Gharbiyah, Syria” Hayan Alhasan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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