Science publications

This curated research library brings together decades of scientific studies exploring organic nitrogen use in plants, with a particular focus on arginine as a novel and highly efficient nitrogen source. The collection spans work on boreal forest species like Scots pine and Norway spruce, agricultural crops, and model plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana.

These papers investigate:

• Nutrient uptake pathways for organic and inorganic nitrogen forms.

• The physiological, ecological, and microbial interactions influenced by arginine.

• Field and greenhouse experiments comparing growth performance, nitrogen use efficiency, and nitrate leaching under different nitrogen regimes.

• The role of nitric oxide signaling in root growth and plant–microbe partnerships.

• Innovations such as arginine–iron–hexametaphosphate complexes and co-factors that enhance arginine’s benefits.

Together, they provide both the evolutionary context (why plants respond strongly to arginine) and the mechanistic insights (how arginine delivers its benefits), forming a strong foundation for advancing sustainable fertilization strategies in forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. 

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Conifer seedling fertilization & forestry N management

1. Effects of small-scale outplanting fertilization on conifer seedling growth and fungal community establishment

2. Low nitrogen losses with a new source of nitrogen for cultivation of conifer seedlings

3. Growth of conifer seedlings on organic and inorganic nitrogen source

4. Effects of early, small-scale nitrogen addition on germination and early growth of Scots pine seedlings and on the recruitment of the root-associated fungal community

5. Organic nitrogen enhances nitrogen nutrition and early growth of Pinus sylvestris seedlings

Soil nitrogen pools, fluxes & microdialysis

6. Nitrogen-compounds-in-soil-solution-of-agricultural-land

7. The potential of microdialysis to monitor organic and inorganic nitrogen in soil

8. New Phytologist (2012) – Inselsbacher – The below‐ground perspective of forest plants: soil provides mainly organic N

9. Early-season dynamics of soil nitrogen fluxes in fertilized and non-fertilized boreal forests

10. Nitrogen fluxes at the root-soil interface show a mismatch of nitrogen fertilizer supply and sugarcane root uptake capacity

11. The influence of sucrose on soil nitrogen availability – a root exudate simulation using microdialysis

12. Incorporating mass flow strongly promotes N flux rates in boreal forest soils

Organic N uptake – physiology & ecology

13. Uptake, metabolism and distribution of organic and inorganic nitrogen sources by Pinus sylvestris

14. Uptake of organic nitrogen in the field by four agriculturally important plant species

15. Uptake of glycine by field-grown wheat

16. Turning the Table: Plants consume microbes as a source of nutrients

17. The unexpected versatility of plants: organic nitrogen use and availability in terrestrial ecosystems

18. The effect of protein supplied in the growth medium on plant pathogen resistance

19. To have or not to have: expression of amino acid transporters during pathogen infection

20. Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personi cation

21. Plant acquisition of organic nitrogen in boreal forests

Mechanisms: transporters, metabolism, C–N interactions

22. Plant Cell & Environment (2016) – Ganeteg – Amino acid transporter mutants of Arabidopsis

23. Plant Cell & Environment (2016) – Franklin – The carbon bonus of organic nitrogen enhances nitrogen use efficiency

24. Physiologia Plantarum (2022) – Fataftah – Nitrate fertilization may delay autumn leaf senescence while amino acid

25. Patterns of plant biomass partitioning depend on nitrogen source

26. Organic and inorganic nitrogen uptake in lichens

27. New Phytologist (2024) – Tünnermann – Plant organic nitrogen nutrition: costs, benefits, and carbon use efficiency

28. New Phytologist (2023) – Henriksson – Reexamining the evidence for the mother tree hypothesis

29. New Phytologist (2014) – Schmidt – Organic nitrogen

30. New Phytologist (2012) – Hobbie – Nitrogen isotopes link mycorrhizal fungi and plants to nitrogen dynamics

31. New Phytologist (2011) – Svennerstam – Transporters in Arabidopsis roots mediating uptake of amino acids

Foundational & review papers on organic N uptake

32. New Phytologist (2009) – Näsholm – Uptake of organic nitrogen by plants

33. New Phytologist (2008) – Svennerstam – Root uptake of cationic amino acids by Arabidopsis

34. New Phytologist (2008) – Forsum – Capacities and constraints of amino acid utilization in Arabidopsis

35. New Phytologist (2002) – Dahlman – Growth, nitrogen uptake, and resource allocation in two tripartite lichens

36. Nasholm New Phytol 2009 – Tansley review

37. Gardenas et al. SBB43 – Knowledge gaps 2011

38. Doane (2017) – The abiotic nitrogen cycle
    

39. Czaban et al. (2016) – Direct acquisition of organic N by white clover even in the presence of inorganic N
    

40. Characteristics of amino acid uptake in barley

41. Boreal forest plants take up organic nitrogen

42. Amino acid uptake, a widespread capacity among boreal forest plants

43. Arginine–iron–hexametaphosphate complex as a novel nitrogen plant nutrition reducing nitrate leaching in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) seedling production – study on combining arginine with iron–hexametaphosphate to further reduce nitrate leaching and improve seedling nitrogen use efficiency.