Dwarf bamboo-dominated forests are often subjected to temporary periods of drought due to rising air temperature and decreasing rainfall. Nevertheless, the relationship among CO2 assimilation, photoprotective pathways and metabolism of reactive oxygen species (ROS) remains unexplored in bamboo species. Changes in leaf gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence, energy partitioning, antioxidative sy...

Considerable evidence exists that the carboxyl-carbon atom of glycolic acid is the primary source of the CO(2) produced during photorespiration by leaves of many species of plants, including tobacco. Experiments were conducted to determine whether glyoxylate or glycine, both products of glycolic acid metabolism, is the more immediate precursor of photorespiratory CO(2).Illuminated tobacco leaf ...

Despite previous reports of no apparent photorespiration in C. , plants based on measurements of gas exchange under 2 versus 21% O, at varying [CO,], photosynthesis in maize (Zea mays) shows a dual response to varying [O,]. l h e maximum rate of photosynthesis in maize i s dependent on 0, (approximately 10Y0). lhis O2 dependence is not related to stomatal conductance, because measurements were...

II. IMPACT OF TERMINAL HEAT STRESS ..................................................................................................................................................2 A. Photosynthesis .......................................................................................................................................................................................................