Effect of Low Content Chlorophyll on Distribution Properties of Absorbed Light Energy in Leaves of Mutant Rice

This paper reported the diurnal variations of photochemical efficiency of PSII, thermal dissipation rate and other physiology process in thelow content chlorophyll mutant rice and its wild type under field conditions, and analyzed the difference of absorbed light distribution between the two rice varieties in a day. The results showed that the mutant had poor absorbed light because of its little light absorption coefficient, but higher electron transportg rate could partly reduce the disadvantageous effect of deficient absorbed light in mutant. Compared with wild-type rice, the mutant had less excess excitation energy and the fraction of absorbed light allocated to photochemical process was more.