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Acclimation to irradiance in seedlings of three tropical rain forest Garcinia species after simulated gap formation
- Source :
- ResearcherID
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Institute of Experimental Botany, 2006.
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Abstract
- We investigated the acclimation of seedlings of three tropical rain forest sub-canopy Garcinia species (G. xanthochymus, G. cowa, and G. bracteata) after transfer from 4.5 (LI) to 40 % (HI) sunlight and 12.5 (MI) sunlight to HI (LH1 and LH2 denoting transfer from LI to HI and MI to HI transfer, respectively). The changes of chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence, net photosynthetic rate (PN), dark respiration rate (RD), Chl content per unit area (Chlarea), leaf mass per unit area (LMA), and seedling mortality were monitored over two months after transfer. These parameters together with leaf anatomy of transferred and control seedlings (kept in LI, MI, and HI) were also examined after two months. No seedlings died during the two months. Fv/Fm, PN, and Chlarea of the transferred seedlings decreased in the first 3 to 12 d. LH1 leaves showed larger reduction in Fv/Fm (>23 % vs.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15739058 and 03003604
- Volume :
- 44
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Photosynthetica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9799ef505d961fa271cbbc4b00a22aeb