Sudden cold temperature regulates the time-lag between plant CO₂ uptake and release

Since substrates for respiration are supplied mainly by recent photo-assimilates, there is a strong but time-lagged link between short-term above- and belowground carbon (C) cycling. However, regulation of this coupling by environmental variables is poorly understood. Whereas recent studies focussed on the effect of drought and shading on the link between above and belowground short-term C cycling, the effect of temperature remains unclear. We used a 13CO2 pulse-chase labelling experiment to investigate the effect of a sudden temperature change from 25 °C to 10 °C on the short-term coupling between assimilatory C uptake and respiratory loss. The study was done in the laboratory using two month old perennial rye-grass plants (

Analysis of the Thermal Response in Micromachine under the Thermal Shock

The thermal response for given micromachine with the boundary surface exposed to sudden temperature change is studied by deriving an analytical solution of the hyperbolic heat conduction equation. Using the obtained analytical expression, the temperature profiles at the outer surface and interior of the micro beam are evaluated for various thermal relaxation times. The behaviors of hyperbolic heat propagation in micro beam are analyzed and possible anomalies are discussed by comparing the thermal behaviors of Fourier heat conduction.