The degree to which plants respond to temperature changes by adjusting vegetative and reproductive phases should depend in part on the effect of temperature on resource allocation to growth versus reproduction.
However, an improved understanding of the relationship between the effects of N and P availability on cellular resource allocation (cell growth versus lipid storage) in microalgae is needed.
However, an improved understanding of the relationship between the effects of N, P, and micronutrient availability on cellular resource allocation (cell growth versus lipid storage) in microalgae is needed.
An improved understanding of the relationship between the effects of N, P, and micronutrient availability on carbon resource allocation (cell growth versus lipid storage) in microalgae is needed in conjunction with life cycle analysis.
The physiological response to phosphate limitation (i.e., limited lipid accumulation) is different than nitrogen limitation due to the different requirements and routes for resource allocation (e.g., protein versus nucleotides).
Our work in this natural system also allowed us to examine whether these trade-offs in nature can act in a temporal dimension, as we measured differential immune resource allocation in the wet versus the dry seasons.
Therefore, a practical resource allocation scheme should carefully tradeoff efficiency versus fairness.
They also indicate that resource allocation switching between investments in abundance versus quality provide a powerful mechanism for promoting the stability of consumer-resource interactions in seasonally forcing environments.
Figure 5 Maximized sum rate versus mean SNR for various resource allocation schemes.
Figure 1 Maximized weighted-sum rate versus mean SNR for different resource allocation schemes and fairness parameter.
However, much work is needed to understand the link between carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in controlling resource allocation at different levels of biological resolution (cellular versus ecological).
