Photosynthate Partitioning into Starch in Soybean Leaves: II. IRRADIANCE LEVEL AND DAILY PHOTOSYNTHETIC PERIOD DURATION EFFECTS

AUTOR(ES)

Chatterton, N. Jerry

RESUMO

Two photosynthetic periods and photosynthetic photon flux densities (PPFD) were used to study the relationship between the rate of photosynthesis and starch accumulation in vegetative soybean leaves (Merr. cv Amsoy 71). Plants grown in short daily photosynthetic periods (7 hours) had higher rates of CO2 fixation per unit leaf dry weight and of leaf starch accumulation than plants grown in long daily photosynthetic periods (14 hours) irrespective of PPFD. CO2 fixation rates per unit leaf area were similar in 7-hour and 14-hour plants grown at low PPFD but were highest in 14-hour plants at the high PPFD. When single leaves of 14-hour plants were given 7-hour photosynthetic periods, their rates of starch accumulation remained unchanged. The programming of starch accumulation rate and possibly of photosynthetic rate by the length of the daily photosynthetic period is apparently a whole-plant, not an individual leaf, phenomenon. Programming of chloroplast starch accumulation rate by length of the daily photosynthetic and/or dark periods was independent of PPFD within the ranges used in this experiment.

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