Claim · model-written summary
Drought lowered wheat light‐saturated net photosynthesis at the photosynthetic optimum.
Verbatim
e0“Drought affected photosynthesis by lowering its optimum temperature ( T opt ) and the values at T opt of light‐saturated net photosynthesis, stomatal conductance, mesophyll conductance, the maximum rate of electron transport ( J max ) and the maximum rate of carboxylation by Rubisco ( V cmax )”
t0“wheat”
e1“well‐watered conditions”
e2“T opt for V cmax was up to 40°C under well‐watered conditions”
e3“The decrease in photosynthesis under drought varied among T growth”
e4“The temperature response of photosynthetic quantum yield under drought was partly attributed to photorespiration”
e5“both diffusional and biochemical parameters of photosynthesis and their thermal sensitivity acclimate little to T growth”
Title
Liang Fang; Pierre Martre; Kaining Jin; et al. Global Change Biology 2022. doi:10.1111/gcb.16488
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Wheat photosynthesis acclimated more to drought than to growth temperature.
- Intervention effect Drought lowered the optimum temperature of wheat photosynthesis.
- Intervention effect Drought lowered wheat stomatal conductance at the photosynthetic optimum.
- Intervention effect Drought lowered wheat mesophyll conductance at the photosynthetic optimum.
- Intervention effect Drought lowered wheat maximum rate of electron transport ( J max ) at the photosynthetic optimum.
- Intervention effect Drought lowered wheat maximum rate of carboxylation by Rubisco ( V cmax ) at the photosynthetic optimum.
- Observation Optimum temperature for wheat V cmax reached 40°C when well watered.
- Observation Optimum temperature for wheat V cmax was 24–34°C under drought.
- Association The decrease in wheat photosynthesis under drought varied with growth temperature.
- Observation The drought decrease in wheat photosynthesis was similar across genotypes.
- Mechanism Photorespiration partly explained the temperature response of wheat photosynthetic quantum yield under drought.
- Mechanism Alternative electron transport explained more of the wheat quantum yield response under drought.
- Mechanism Changed wheat leaf nitrogen did not fully explain the biochemical parameter changes.
- Observation Wheat diffusional and biochemical photosynthesis parameters acclimated little to growth temperature.
- Observation Wheat photosynthetic parameters acclimated considerably to drought and combined drought and growth temperature.
- Method / resource Common models strongly overestimated wheat leaf photosynthesis under variable temperature and drought.