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第二章 生长还是贮藏

这种多糖是什么

新鲜铁皮石斛嚼起来发黏,黏液主要是一种葡甘露聚糖:由甘露糖和葡萄糖单元组成的长链,其中许多单元带有乙酰基。其结构曾从茎中鉴定为 2-O-乙酰葡甘露聚糖 (Hua et al. 2004)。《中国药典》对干品的评价部分依据这一组分:以苯酚–硫酸法测定的总多糖不得少于干茎的 25%,并对甘露糖的比例作了限定 (国家药典委员会 2020; Dubois et al. 1956)。

证据

多糖含量在不同产地和栽培方式之间差异很大。在一项 380 个样品的调查中,42% 达到 25% 的标准;多数在 20% 到 35% 之间,阳光下生长的植株多糖高于荫蔽处 (Tan et al. 2023)。在一项三种栽培方式的比较中,活树附生栽培的茎多糖显著低于附石栽培和温室栽培,后两者之间没有差别 (Yang et al. 2023)。四个品系在 4 °C 下放置 28 天后,两个品系的茎多糖上升,两个下降 (Bao et al. 2024)。

这些结果提醒我们不要相信简单的说法。在那项比较中,「仿野生」的附树栽培并没有得到更多多糖;对低温的反应也因品系而异。多糖是一种贮藏产物,决定贮藏多少的,是进入的碳与用于生长的碳之间的平衡。

生长–分化平衡

证据

赫姆斯(Herms)与马特森(Mattson)的生长–分化平衡假说,出发点是这样一个观察:生长比光合作用对缺水缺肥更敏感。当适度胁迫使生长减慢得比光合作用更多时,生长用不了的碳就积累起来,可用于贮藏和次生产物;当养分和水分充足时,大部分碳被生长消耗 (Herms and Mattson 1992)。与之相关的碳–养分平衡假说对氮作出同样的预测:缺氮的植物往往含有更多以碳为骨架的化合物 (Bryant et al. 1983)。许多物种的实验证实,缺水使生长与光合作用脱钩,因此在轻度干旱下,生长器官中的碳水化合物浓度上升 (Muller et al. 2011)。

这个假说原本是针对防御性次生化合物提出的,把它用于贮藏多糖是一种推广,而不是检验。不过它的逻辑只是一份收支账,而收支账是可以写出来的。

一份碳收支

推导

一丛植株每天通过光合作用获得碳。生长按其所能取用碳,受氮、水和夜温限制;剩余的碳以多糖形式贮藏;夜间呼吸消耗全部碳库。四种方案,240 天,参数为示意值。

def run(nitrogen, water_cycle, night_temp, days=240):
    """Daily carbon budget of a clump, in relative units (starting dry mass 1). Photosynthesis
    supplies carbon; growth (the sink) uses it first; what growth cannot use is stored as
    polysaccharide; night respiration draws on both pools in proportion. Water deficit and
    cool nights slow growth more than they slow photosynthesis (Muller et al. 2011)."""
    S, P = 0.9, 0.1                                    # structural dry matter, stored polysaccharide
    for day in range(days):
        w = 1.0
        if water_cycle:                                # 12-day cycle: 6 days watered, 6 days drying
            phase = day % 12
            w = 1.0 if phase < 6 else 1.0 - 0.1 * (phase - 5)   # falls to 0.4 by day 12
        size = S / (1 + S / 20)                           # self-shading: gains level off
        supply = 0.060 * size * w ** 0.3                  # photosynthesis, mildly water-limited
        cool = 1.3 ** ((night_temp - 22) / 10)            # growth slows on cool nights more than photosynthesis
        demand = 0.056 * size * nitrogen * w * cool       # growth, strongly N-, water- and temperature-limited
        growth = min(supply, demand)
        S += 0.75 * growth                                # a quarter of growth carbon is respired in synthesis
        room = max(0.0, 1 - P / (S + P) / 0.5)             # storage slows as the stem fills (cap ≈ 50 %)
        P += 0.9 * (supply - growth) * room               # surplus stored as polysaccharide
        r = 0.006 * 2.0 ** ((night_temp - 20) / 10)       # night respiration per unit mass, Q10 = 2
        S, P = S * (1 - r), P * (1 - r)
    return S + P, P / (S + P)

regimes = [("high N, constant water, warm nights 22 °C", 1.0, False, 22),
           ("high N, constant water, cool nights 14 °C", 1.0, False, 14),
           ("low N, drying cycles, warm nights 22 °C", 0.7, True, 22),
           ("low N, drying cycles, cool nights 14 °C", 0.7, True, 14)]
print("after 240 days (illustrative parameters, not fitted to Dendrobium data):")
for label, n, cyc, tn in regimes:
    mass, frac = run(n, cyc, tn)
    print(f"  {label:42s} dry mass {mass:4.1f}, polysaccharide {100 * frac:4.1f} % = {mass * frac:3.1f}")
# after 240 days (illustrative parameters, not fitted to Dendrobium data):
#   high N, constant water, warm nights 22 °C  dry mass 55.4, polysaccharide  6.9 % = 3.8
#   high N, constant water, cool nights 14 °C  dry mass 59.0, polysaccharide 19.3 % = 11.4
#   low N, drying cycles, warm nights 22 °C    dry mass 21.8, polysaccharide 28.5 % = 6.2
#   low N, drying cycles, cool nights 14 °C    dry mass 21.6, polysaccharide 32.9 % = 7.1
示意性碳收支模型中 240 天内的干物质(左)与多糖占比(右)。低氮和干湿循环提高多糖占比,但使干物质减少;只降低夜温则在保持干物质的同时提高占比。

模型再现了假说所预测的方向:减少氮、干湿循环和凉爽的夜晚都会提高多糖占比。它也显示了代价。低氮加干湿循环使干物质减少一半以上,结果每丛的多糖总量反而低于正常施肥加凉夜的方案。对按重量出售鲜条的种植者来说,最佳方案并不是百分比最高的那一种。哪种方案的收成最值钱,取决于价格,也取决于这个模型只能猜测的参数,只能靠田间试验来确定。

凉爽的夜晚

推导

两个夜间效应,采用简单假设:呼吸随温度上升(Q₁₀ = 2),以及植株的 CAM 部分在夜间固碳的耗水代价。

import math

def es(t):
    return 0.6108 * math.exp(17.27 * t / (t + 237.3))

# 1. Night respiration. Respiration roughly doubles for every 10 K (Q10 ≈ 2; Atkin & Tjoelker 2003).
#    Suppose a 12-hour night at 20 °C costs 20 % of the day's net carbon gain.
for t_night in (26, 22, 18, 14):
    share = 0.20 * 2.0 ** ((t_night - 20) / 10)
    print(f"night at {t_night} °C: respiration ≈ {100 * share:4.1f} % of the day's carbon gain")

# 2. CO2 taken up at night (the CAM part of a C3–CAM plant) costs less water, because the
#    evaporative demand (VPD) is lower. Water lost per unit of CO2 fixed scales with VPD
#    at the same stomatal opening (ratio of diffusivities 1.6, taken as constant here).
day = es(26) * (1 - 0.65)
print(f"\nday 26 °C, 65 % RH: VPD {day:.2f} kPa")
for t, rh in ((14, 85), (20, 85), (22, 70)):
    night = es(t) * (1 - rh / 100)
    print(f"night {t} °C, {rh} % RH: VPD {night:.2f} kPa -> water per CO2 fixed at night is "
          f"{100 * night / day:3.0f} % of the daytime cost")
# night at 26 °C: respiration ≈ 30.3 % of the day's carbon gain
# night at 22 °C: respiration ≈ 23.0 % of the day's carbon gain
# night at 18 °C: respiration ≈ 17.4 % of the day's carbon gain
# night at 14 °C: respiration ≈ 13.2 % of the day's carbon gain
#
# day 26 °C, 65 % RH: VPD 1.18 kPa
# night 14 °C, 85 % RH: VPD 0.24 kPa -> water per CO2 fixed at night is  20 % of the daytime cost
# night 20 °C, 85 % RH: VPD 0.35 kPa -> water per CO2 fixed at night is  30 % of the daytime cost
# night 22 °C, 70 % RH: VPD 0.79 kPa -> water per CO2 fixed at night is  67 % of the daytime cost

凉爽的夜晚节省碳;对 C3–CAM 植物来说,还使夜间吸收的耗水很低。这里有两点要注意。植物会驯化:在新的温度下经过几天或几周,呼吸会部分回到原来的速率,所以短期的 Q₁₀ 高估了长期的节省 (Atkin and Tjoelker 2003)。而且非常凉爽又很潮湿的夜晚,会把第一章的结露问题带回来。

注

种植手册中为铁皮石斛建议的昼夜温度,例如昼 26 °C、夜 14 °C,是经验做法,不是经过对照试验确立的最适值。本章的模型说明每个因素朝哪个方向推动,但不能说明推动多远。

假说 · 尚未验证

尚未确立。 在温室栽培的铁皮石斛中,在平均温度和施肥相同的条件下,与 4 K 的昼夜温差相比,至少 10 K 的昼夜温差能使茎多糖提高至少 3 个百分点(以干重计),同时鲜重产量下降不超过 10%。该假说预测:在一个生长季、匹配温室棚区的随机试验中,大温差棚区同时出现这两个结果。如果多糖没有提高 3 个百分点,或产量下降超过 10%,假说就被推翻。

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