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Nutrient accumulation and retranslocation in cladodes on young Casuarina glauca trees grown in a plantation were measured as a part of a study on nutrient retranslocation in softwood and hardwood species. Despite a slow growth rate and generally high levels of nutrients in the foliage, large amounts of N, P, K, and Mg were retranslocated from cladodes. The period of retranslocation synchronised with that of new shoot growth in spring-summer. After summer, mineral contents in cladodes stabilised as the size of the new sinks for which nutrients are required decreased.
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Saur, E., Fife, D.N., Nambiar, E.K.S. (1997). Seasonal changes in accumulation and retranslocation of nutrients in Casuarina glauca cladodes. In: Ando, T., Fujita, K., Mae, T., Matsumoto, H., Mori, S., Sekiya, J. (eds) Plant Nutrition for Sustainable Food Production and Environment. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0047-9_38
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