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Tree Physiology Advance Access originally published online on March 27, 2009
Tree Physiology 2009 29(6):789-797; doi:10.1093/treephys/tpp019
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Seasonal response of photosynthetic electron transport and energy dissipation in the eighth year of exposure to elevated atmospheric CO2 (FACE) in Pinus taeda (loblolly pine)

Barry A. Logan1,2, Andrew Combs1, Kalisa Myers3, Rose Kent1, Lela Stanley1 and David T. Tissue3,4

1 Biology Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
2 Corresponding author (blogan{at}bowdoin.edu)
3 Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131, USA
4 Centre for Plant and Food Science, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia


  Abstract

To determine the effect of growth under elevated CO2 partial pressures (pCO2) on photosynthetic electron transport and photoprotective energy dissipation, we examined light-saturated net photosynthetic CO2 assimilation (Asat), the capacity for photosynthetic O2 evolution, chlorophyll fluorescence emission and the pigment composition of upper-canopy loblolly pine needles in the eighth year of exposure to elevated pCO2 (20 Pa above ambient) at the free-air CO2 enrichment facility in the Duke Forest. During the summer growing season, Asat was 50% higher in current-year needles and 24% higher in year-old needles in elevated pCO2 in comparison with needles of the same age cohort in ambient pCO2. Thus, photosynthetic down-regulation at elevated pCO2 was observed in the summer in year-old needles. In the winter, Asat was not significantly affected by growth pCO2. Reductions in Asat, the capacity for photosynthetic O2 evolution and photosystem II (PSII) efficiency in the light-acclimated and fully-oxidized states were observed in the winter when compared to summer. Growth at elevated pCO2 had no significant effect on the capacity for photosynthetic O2 evolution, PSII efficiencies in the light-acclimated and fully-oxidized states, chlorophyll content or the size and conversion state of the xanthophyll cycle, regardless of season or needle age cohort. Therefore, we observed no evidence that photosynthetic electron transport or photoprotective energy dissipation responded to compensate for the effects of elevated pCO2 on Calvin cycle activity.

Keywords: acclimation, low temperatures, photochemistry, photoprotection, xanthophyll cycle

Received November 10, 2008; Accepted March 5, 2009


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