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Leaf Gas Exchange and Photosystem II Fluorescence Responses to CO2 Cycling

Version 1 : Received: 14 March 2023 / Approved: 15 March 2023 / Online: 15 March 2023 (08:57:01 CET)

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Bunce, J. Leaf Gas Exchange and Photosystem II Fluorescence Responses to CO2 Cycling. Plants 2023, 12, 1620. Bunce, J. Leaf Gas Exchange and Photosystem II Fluorescence Responses to CO2 Cycling. Plants 2023, 12, 1620.

Abstract

Experimental systems to simulate future elevated CO2 conditions in the field often have large, rapid fluctuations in CO2. To examine possible impacts of such fluctuations on photosynthesis, intact leaves of field grown plants of five species were exposed to two-minute cycles of CO2 between 400 and 800 mol mol-1 lasting a total of 10 minutes, with photosynthesis, stomatal conductance and PSII fluorescence measured at the end of each half-cycle, and also 10 minutes after the end of the cycling. Prior to the cyclic CO2 treatments, steady-state responses of leaf gas exchange and fluorescence to CO2 were determined. In four of the five species, in which stomatal conductance decreased with increasing CO2, the cyclic CO2 treatments reduced stomatal conductance. In those species, both photosynthesis and the photochemical efficiency of PSII were reduced at limiting internal CO2 levels, but not at saturating CO2. In the fifth species, there was no change in stomatal conductance with CO2, and no change in either photosynthesis or PSII efficiency at any CO2 level with CO2 cycling. It is concluded that in many, but not all, species fluctuations in CO2 may reduce photosynthesis at low CO2 partly by decreasing the photochemical efficiency of photosystem II, as well as by decreasing stomatal conductance.

Keywords

elevated CO2; fluctuation; photosynthesis; stomatal conductance; photosystem II; cycling; fluorescence

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences

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