Changes in photosynthesis and water status of developing leaves of Brachystegia spiciformis Benth

Changes in net carbon assimilation and water status were studied during leaf development in the deciduous, tropical species Brachystegia spiciformis Benth. In this upland savanna African tree, bud-burst and leaf development occur approximately two months before the rainy season. The newly formed leaves synthesize anthocyanin until the fully expanded leaves of the whole canopy are red. This foliage is referred to as "spring flush" foliage. Subsequently, the anthocyanins are metabolized and the pre-rain leaves become green. Carbon dioxide assimilation exhibited a bimodal diurnal pattern and was similar for pre-rain green leaves and fully expanded flushing leaves, although pre-rain green leaves showed a net uptake of carbon throughout the daylight period, whereas flushing leaves exhibited only brief periods of net photosynthesis in the morning and early afternoon. Measurements of leaf water potential and relative water content showed a diurnal pattern with considerable variation throughout the day. Leaf water potential and relative water content values decreased soon after sunrise reaching a minimum at a time corresponding to the afternoon peak in CO(2) assimilation. Stomatal conductance was closely related to transpiration rate in both flushing and pre-rain green leaves, although flushing leaves had lower stomatal conductances than pre-rain green leaves. Pre-rain green leaves exhibited a compensation irradiance of approximately 180 micro mol m(-2) s(-1), whereas flushing leaves had positive net photosynthesis only at PPFDs greater than 300 micro mol m(-2) s(-1). Rate of photosynthesis (expressed per leaf area or chlorophyll unit) increased as anthocyanin concentration decreased, although the photosynthetic rate continued to increase long after the leaf anthocyanins had been degraded to low, visually undetectable amounts. Post-rain green leaves had chlorophyll concentrations, transpiration rates and stomatal conductances similar to those of pre-rain green leaves; however, photosynthetic rates in post-rain leaves were more than three times higher. Thus, during the early stages of the spring flush, carbon asimilation rates of the flushing leaves were inversely related to leaf anthocyanin concentrations. In pre-rain green leaves, photosynthesis was limited by other non-stomatal factors.     

Winter photosynthesis of red spruce from three Vermont seed sources

We evaluated winter (January through March) carbon assimilation of red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) from three Vermont seed sources grown in a common garden in northwestern Vermont. Although CO(2) exchange rates were generally low, net photosynthetic rates increased during two prolonged thaws. Significant correlations between CO(2) exchange rates and multiday air temperature means supported our observations of enhanced gas exchange during extended periods of elevated temperature. Increases in photosynthesis during thaws occurred before observed increases in leaf conductance, indicating that initial changes in photosynthesis were probably not associated with changes in stomatal aperture. Results of correlations between photosynthetic rates and PAR suggested that solar irradiance did not have a strong effect on winter carbon capture. Rates of net photosynthesis differed among seed sources. Trees from the Mt. Mansfield source had the highest average rates of photosynthesis and, at times, rates for individual trees from this source approximated those occurring during the growing season. Because seed sources differed in photosynthetic rates but not in leaf conductance, we conclude that differences in winter photosynthesis among seed sources were primarily attributable to factors other than changes in stomatal aperture.     

Seasonal fluctuations and temperature dependence in photosynthetic parameters and stomatal conductance at the leaf scale of Populus euphratica Oliv

A combined model to simulate CO? and H?O gas exchange at the leaf scale was parameterized using data obtained from in situ leaf-scale observations of diurnal and seasonal changes in CO? and H?O gas exchange. The Farquhar et al.-type model of photosynthesis was parameterized by using the Bayesian approach and the Ball et al.-type stomatal conductance model was optimized using the linear least-squares procedure. The results show that the seasonal physiological changes in photosynthetic parameters (e.g., V(cmax25), J(max25), R(d25) and g(m25)) in the biochemical model of photosynthesis and m in the stomatal conductance model should be counted in estimating long-term CO? and H?O gas exchange. Overall, the coupled model successfully reproduced the observed response in net assimilation and transpiration rates.     

Photosynthetic and transpirational responses of red spruce understory trees to light and temperature

Understory red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) trees, between 20 and 50 cm in height and 12 years or more in age, were collected from mid- and high-elevation stands in north-central Vermont and placed in a closed-cuvette system to measure photosynthetic and transpirational responses to photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) and temperature. Photosynthesis, dark respiration, transpiration and water-use efficiency of trees from both stands responded to changes in PPFD and temperature in similar ways. Trees from both stands exhibited maximum rates of net photosynthesis at temperatures between 15 and 20 degrees C, and exposure to higher temperatures resulted in reduced rates of photosynthesis and increased rates of respiration. Net photosynthetic rates generally increased with increasing light intensity but began to level off at 250 micro mol m(-2) s(-1). Water-use efficiency was maximal when temperature and PPFD were at 15 degrees C and above 400 micro mol m(-2) s(-1), respectively.     

辽东地区4种林下经济植物光合特性研究

采用Li-6400便携式光合测定系统,对4种林下经济植物的净光合速率、蒸腾速率、气孔导度、胞间CO2浓度进行测定。结果表明：4种林下经济植物的净光合速率日变化曲线均为双峰型曲线,存在明显的光合“午睡”现象,日平均净光合速率的大小顺序为大叶芹〉五味子〉穿龙薯蓣〉移山参;大叶芹、五味子、穿龙薯蓣的蒸腾速率日变化曲线均为双峰型,而移山参为单峰型;4种林下经济植物胞间CO2浓度日变化曲线呈典型“V”字形。     

紫花含笑和苦梓含笑光合生理特性的研究

采用Li-6400便携式光合测定系统（Li—Cor Inc．,USA）对常绿灌木紫花含笑和常绿乔木苦梓含笑的光合生理特性进行了测定。结果表明：（1）两种含笑叶片的光响应曲线符合非直角双曲线模型,表观光量子效率接近,但灌木紫花含笑的光饱和点、光补偿点、最大净光合速率、暗呼吸速率均比乔木苦梓含笑低。（2）光照强度对两种含笑的气孔行为、蒸腾速率和水分利用率的影响效果近似,光照强度诱导气孔导度变大,蒸腾速率加强。当达到光饱和后,随着光强的增强,净光合速率增加缓慢,气孔导度和蒸腾速率持续增大,水分利用率下降。     

Daily and seasonal patterns of carbon and water fluxes above a north Australian savanna

Daily and seasonal fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapor above a north Australian savanna were recorded over a complete dry season-wet season annual cycle using the eddy covariance technique. Wet season rates of photosynthesis and transpiration were larger than those measured in the dry season and were dominated by the presence of the grassy understory. As the dry season progressed and the grass understory died, ecosystem rates of assimilation and water vapor flux declined substantially. By the end of the dry season, canopy assimilation and evapotranspiration rates were 20-25% of wet season values. Assimilation was light saturated in the dry season but not in the wet season. Stomatal control of transpiration increased between the wet and dry season. This was revealed by the decline in the slope of E with increasing leaf-to-air vapor pressure difference (D) between wet and dry seasons, and also by the significant decrease in the ratio of boundary to canopy conductance observed between the wet and dry seasons. A simple pan-tropical modeling of leaf area index or wet season canopy CO2 flux was undertaken. It was shown that with readily available data for foliar N content and the ratio of rainfall to potential evaporation, leaf index and wet season canopy CO2 flux can be successfully estimated for a number of tropical ecosystems, including north Australian savannas.     

Vertical gradients in photosynthetic light response within an old-growth Douglas-fir and western hemlock canopy

We examined needle-level light response of photosynthesis across a vertical light gradient within 45-55-m-tall western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) trees growing in a 400-500-year-old mixed species stand. We determined: (1) whether light-saturated photosynthetic rates, light compensation points, and respiration rates varied from the upper to the lower canopy, and (2) if light-saturated photosynthetic rates, light compensation points, and respiration rates varied between Douglas-fir and western hemlock. Over a 25-m gradient from the canopy top to the lower canopy, mean light-saturated photosynthetic rates, light compensation points, and respiration rates declined in overstory Douglas-fir and western hemlock needles, paralleling a 65% decline in the mean daily photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD). At the canopy top, increasing light-saturated photosynthetic rates relative to lower canopy needles increased carbon uptake at high PPFD. In the lower canopy, reduced respiration rates relative to upper canopy needles increased carbon uptake at low PPFD by reducing the light compensation point. At all canopy positions, western hemlock had lower mean light-saturated photosynthetic rates, light compensation points and respiration rates than Douglas-fir. As a result, western hemlock had higher net photosynthetic rates at low PPFD, but lower net photosynthetic rates at high PPFD compared with Douglas-fir.     

Diurnal Course of Gas Exchange and Water Use Efficiency of Platycladus orientalis in the Semiarid Region of the Loess Plateau

The daily gas exchange, stomatal conductance, and water use efficiency of Platycladus orientalis in the test field of Fangshan county of Shanxi Province in the semiarid region of the Loess Plateau were measured with portable Li-6200 gas analysis system in natural conditions. The results showed that the diurnal course of net photosynthetic rate displayed a two-peak pattern, that of stomatal conductance displayed a hollow pattern, and that of transpiration rate displayed a signal-peak pattern. Water use efficiency culminated in the early morning. On the basis of two criteria of stomatal limitation of photosynthesis suggested by Farquhar and Sharkey, the predominant limiting factor of photosynthesis was the stomatal conductance of stomatal limitation in the morning (10:00–12:00). However, the midday depression of photosynthesis at noon (12:00–14:00) and the decrease in photosynthesis in the afternoon (16:00–18:00) were the results of nonstomatal limitation, such as low carboxylation capacity of the leaf mesophyll.     

Net photosynthesis and leaf conductance of loblolly pine seedlings in 2 and 21% oxygen as influenced by irradiance, temperature and provenance

Carbon dioxide assimilation and transpiration by secondary needles of two-year-old loblolly pines (Pinus taeda L.) were measured at 2 and 21% (ambient) oxygen. Measurements were made with a Georgia provenance at irradiances (photosynthetic photon flux density) of 150, 300, 700 and 1200 micromol m(-2) s(-1) and a constant temperature of 25 degrees C, and at temperatures of 15, 25 and 35 degrees C and a constant irradiance of 1200 micromol m(-2) s(-1). Measurements were made with provenances from North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas, and Georgia at 25 degrees C and an irradiance of 1200 micromol m(-2) s(-1). There was no significant interaction between the effects of irradiance and oxygen on either net photosynthesis or leaf conductance. Taking all irradiances together, photosynthesis was 16% less and leaf conductance 28% less in 2% oxygen than in 21% oxygen. There was a significant interaction between the effects of temperature and oxygen concentration on both net assimilation and leaf conductance. Net photosynthesis at 21% oxygen relative to that at 2% was significantly reduced at 25 and 35 degrees C, but not at 15 degrees C, whereas leaf conductance at 21% oxygen relative to that at 2% was significantly increased at 15 and 25 degrees C, but not at 35 degrees C. In the provenance study, net photosynthesis was 11% higher and leaf conductance 36% lower in 2% oxygen than in 21% oxygen. There was no significant interaction between the effects of provenance and oxygen on either net photosynthesis or leaf conductance.     

Gas exchange responses of two Eucalyptus species to salinity and waterlogging

The effects of salinity and waterlogging on stomatal conductance, net photosynthesis and transpiration of 3-month-old Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh. and Eucalyptus lesouefii Maiden seedlings were studied under greenhouse conditions. Under non-saline conditions, waterlogging induced stomatal closure in both species. However, the stomata of E. camaldulensis reopened after five weeks, when adventitious roots were produced. Relative to that of controls, height growth of waterlogged seedlings was greater in E. camaldulensis than in E. lesouefii, as were rates of photosynthesis and transpiration. In a freely drained medium, high salinity reduced rates of seedling height growth and photosynthesis, relative to those in controls, less in E. lesouefii than in E. camaldulensis. In both species, height growth, stomatal conductance and photosynthetic rate were lowest under conditions of saline waterlogging.     

Movement of respiratory CO(2) in stems of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seedlings

Temperature-independent fluctuations in stem CO(2) efflux were measured in Pinus taeda L. seedlings. Stem CO(2) efflux was measured during high and low transpiration rates, high and low net photosynthesis rates, and normal and interrupted substrate supply conditions. Stem CO(2) efflux rates were an average of 6.7% lower during periods of high transpiration compared to periods of low transpiration. This difference in stem CO(2) efflux rates was not due to water stress. The most likely cause was movement of respiratory CO(2) in the transpiration stream. Interruption of substrate supply to the stem by phloem girdling reduced stem CO(2) efflux rates. Increasing net photosynthesis rates from low to high had no effect on stem CO(2) efflux, but decreasing net photosynthesis from high to low caused relatively small reductions in stem CO(2) efflux. These results indicate that diurnal changes in net photosynthesis rate may play a small role in temperature-independent afternoon depressions of stem CO(2) efflux. The transport of respiratory CO(2) by the transpiration stream compromises measurements of woody tissue respiration obtained by commonly accepted gas exchange techniques. This phenomenon could also affect measurement of leaf net photosynthesis and branch woody tissue respiration.     

4个兔眼蓝莓品种光合特性对季节变化的响应

为给兔眼蓝莓品种筛选提供参考,选取‘粉蓝’、‘梯芙蓝’、‘灿烂’、‘芭尔德温’4个品种作为研究对象,在不同季节对其光合指标和叶绿素含量进行研究。结果表明:‘芭尔德温’叶片中叶绿素含量最高,‘梯芙蓝’最低。4个兔眼蓝莓品种的净光合速率、气孔导度和蒸腾速率在5—7月较高,11月最低;胞间CO2浓度和水分利用效率在11月最高,5—7月较低。‘芭尔德温’的平均净光合速率最高,‘灿烂’最低;‘灿烂’的平均气孔导度和胞间CO2浓度最大;‘粉蓝’和‘芭尔德温’的平均蒸腾速率低于‘梯芙蓝’和‘灿烂’;‘粉蓝’的平均水分利用效率最高,其次是‘芭尔德温’,‘梯芙蓝’最低。4个品种的净光合速率与蒸腾速率、气孔导度显著正相关,与胞间CO2浓度、水分利用效率显著负相关;光合有效辐射、大气温度与净光合速率、蒸腾速率及气孔导度显著正相关,与胞间CO2浓度、水分利用效率显著负相关。综上,4个品种光合特性差异显著,在不同季节其规律性特征不一致。‘芭尔德温’的净光合速率受季节影响较小,且有较大生长量;‘粉蓝’和‘芭尔德温’具有较好的节水性和耐旱性,并且在同化作用下积累干物质能力比‘梯芙蓝’和‘灿烂’强;兔眼蓝莓在5—7月具有较强的光合性能,光合有效辐射和大气温度是影响兔眼蓝莓光合作用的主要生态因子。     

不同栽培条件下枣树幼果期光合作用日变化规律的研究

笔者以10年生壶瓶枣为试材,研究了枣树在灌溉、未灌溉、遮阴、雾化栽培和喷施亚硒酸钠5个处理下光合作用的日变化规律。结果表明:干旱条件降低了树体的光合作用,通过遮阴、雾化栽培和喷施亚硒酸钠可以提高树体的气孔导度,调节叶片的蒸腾,提高树体的光合速率,保证光合作用的进行。亚硒酸钠处理显著提高了叶片上午的净光合速率,气孔导度和蒸腾速率都比其他处理高。     

Influence of canopy position, needle age and season on the foliar gas exchange of Pinus canariensis

We investigated the seasonal variation in the gas exchange of current and 1-year-old needles in the upper sun and lower shade crown of adult Pinus canariensis trees. In general, current year needles displayed lower gas exchange rates than the 1-year-old needles. In both needle age classes, gas exchange was significantly lower in the shade than in the sun crown. However irrespective of crown position and needle age, maximum daily net photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance for water vapour were generally higher during the wet and cold winter as compared to the dry and hot summer. These higher gas exchange values obtained during the cold and wet season can mainly be explained by higher soil-water availability and lower evaporative demand as compared to the warm and dry seaon. In addition, we also observed a displacement in the temperature optimum of net photosynthesis towards lower temperatures during the cold and wet season as compared to the warm and dry season. The observed gas exchange characteristics indicate a conservative water saving strategy and thus allowing P. canariensis needles to maintain a positive carbon gain even at periods of high evaporative demand and low soil-water availability.     

A controlled test of the dual-isotope approach for the interpretation of stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratio variation in tree rings

Seedlings of a conifer (Pinus radiata D. Don) and a broad leaf angiosperm (Eucalyptus globulus Labill.) were grown for 100 days in two growth cabinets at 45 or 65% relative humidity. The seedlings were exposed to treatments designed to modify carbon assimilation rates and capacities, stomatal conductance and transpiration to test conceptual models that attempt to clarify the interpretation of carbon isotope discrimination (Δ(13)C) by using oxygen isotope enrichment (Δ(18)O). Differences in relative humidity and within-cabinet treatments (including lower irradiance, lower nitrogen inputs, higher leaf temperature and lower moisture status than control seedlings) produced significant differences in assimilation rates, photosynthetic capacities, stomatal conductance, leaf transpiration rates and leaf evaporative enrichment. The dual-isotope approach accurately interpreted the cause of variation in wood cellulose Δ(13)C for some of the treatments, but not for others. We also tested whether we could use Δ(13)C variation to constrain the interpretation of δ(18)O variation. Carbon isotope discrimination appears to be influenced by transpiration (providing information on leaf evaporative enrichment), but the results did not provide a clear way to interpret such variation. The dual-isotope approach appears to be valid conceptually, but more work is needed to make it operational under different scenarios.     

紫茎泽兰叶片气体交换的气孔调节特性:对其入侵能力的意义

紫茎泽兰是一个典型的外来入侵植物.利用便携式光合测定系统,对分布于四川省凉山州德昌市郊(27°28′36"N,102°12′28″E)的紫茎泽兰的气体交换特性进行测定,并与本地8个伴生种和其他12个分布于我国不同地区和日本的入侵种和本地种进行比较.目的是探讨气孔调节在日变化过程和长期干旱与湿润生境上的差异及其对紫茎泽兰入侵能力的影响.研究发现紫茎泽兰光合午休现象明显,气孔调节和非气孔调节共同控制了紫茎泽兰的光合日进程模式,而以气孔调节最为重要.非气孔调节主要是通过羧化效率的降低,从而影响表观量子效率或其他光合过程来实现的,而气孔调节主要是通过降低胞间CO2浓度,提高气孔限制值来实现的,这与其他种的差异不大.经过长期的野外不同湿度环境适应后,气孔调节出现了一定的弹性变化.在气孔导度相差不大的情况下,土壤有机质、土壤pH值和土壤有效氮含量差异不明显,湿生生境的光合速率和蒸腾速率显著高于干生生境,并导致了叶片含氮量显著提高.气孔在调节紫茎泽兰水分利用效率方面有别于所测定的其他20种植物,在湿生生境下随气孔导度下降,水分利用效率下降,而在干生生境下则显著升高.因此,紫茎泽兰同时兼有"省水"植物和"费水"植物的双重特点,这一灵活水分利用特点保证了它在不利环境中的生存和有利环境中的扩展,对于其在侵入区的生长发育有一定的意义.     

Effects of foliar nitrogen concentration on photosynthesis and water use efficiency in Douglas-fir

Leaf-level physiological processes were studied in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) to determine whether apparent increases in stand-level water use efficiency (WUE) observed in response to nitrogen (N) fertilization were attributable to foliar N effects on carbon fixation rates or on stomatal control of water loss. Photosynthesis and transpiration were measured at different light intensities and ambient CO(2) molar fractions and comparisons were made between current-year shoots with average foliar N concentrations of 1.58% (High-N) and 1.25% (Low-N). Photosynthetic rates and foliar N concentrations were positively correlated. In response to light, photosynthesis and stomatal conductance were closely coupled and a similar coupling was observed in response to different ambient CO(2) concentrations. Partitioning the photosynthetic responses into mesophyll and stomatal components indicated that foliar N altered mesophyll conductance but not stomatal control of water loss. High-N shoots had significantly greater rates of photosynthesis and transpiration than Low-N shoots and, as a result, instantaneous WUE did not differ significantly between High-N and Low-N shoots.     

Partial shoot removal increases net CO(2) assimilation and alters water relations of Citrus seedlings

Effects of defoliation on partial shoot removal by decapitation on seedling growth, water use and net gas exchange of remaining basal leaves, were examined in Citrus spp. Shoot and root growth rates were manipulated to test for effects of growth demands on net gas exchange. Partially defoliated plants had higher leaf pressure potentials, root conductivities and rates of water use than intact control plants. Shoot regrowth occurred at the expense of root loss. Basal leaves on defoliated plants consistently had higher rates of CO(2) assimilation (A) than leaves on intact plants. Stomatal conductance (g(s)) changed little after defoliation so the higher A of leaves on defoliated plants lowered the ratio of intercellular to ambient CO(2) concentration (C(i)/C(a)) in the mesophyll. In some cases, g(s) increased with A in defoliated plants but C(i)/C(a) was not affected. Stomatal conductance only limited A when intact seedlings were stressed by root confinement in small pots or when leaves were exposed to high vapor pressure deficits during gas exchange measurements. Increased carbon demand for shoot regrowth increased photosynthetic capacity and was more important than stomatal responses in determining A after partial shoot loss.