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First published online September 17, 2004; 10.1104/pp.104.040758

Plant Physiology 136:3350-3363 (2004)
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Measurement and Interpretation of the Oxygen Isotope Composition of Carbon Dioxide Respired by Leaves in the Dark

Lucas A. Cernusak*, Graham D. Farquhar, S. Chin Wong and Hilary Stuart-Williams

Environmental Biology Group and Cooperative Research Center for Greenhouse Accounting, Research School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory 2601 Australia

We measured the oxygen isotope composition ({delta}18O) of CO2 respired by Ricinus communis leaves in the dark. Experiments were conducted at low CO2 partial pressure and at normal atmospheric CO2 partial pressure. Across both experiments, the {delta}18O of dark-respired CO2 ({delta}R) ranged from 44{per thousand} to 324{per thousand} (Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water scale). This seemingly implausible range of values reflects the large flux of CO2 that diffuses into leaves, equilibrates with leaf water via the catalytic activity of carbonic anhydrase, then diffuses out of the leaf, leaving the net CO2 efflux rate unaltered. The impact of this process on {delta}R is modulated by the {delta}18O difference between CO2 inside the leaf and in the air, and by variation in the CO2 partial pressure inside the leaf relative to that in the air. We developed theoretical equations to calculate {delta}18O of CO2 in leaf chloroplasts ({delta}c), the assumed location of carbonic anhydrase activity, during dark respiration. Their application led to sensible estimates of {delta}c, suggesting that the theory adequately accounted for the labeling of CO2 by leaf water in excess of that expected from the net CO2 efflux. The {delta}c values were strongly correlated with {delta}18O of water at the evaporative sites within leaves. We estimated that approximately 80% of CO2 in chloroplasts had completely exchanged oxygen atoms with chloroplast water during dark respiration, whereas approximately 100% had exchanged during photosynthesis. Incorporation of the {delta}18O of leaf dark respiration into ecosystem and global scale models of C18OO dynamics could affect model outputs and their interpretation.

Article, publication date, and citation information can be found at www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.104.040758.

* Corresponding author; e-mail lucas.cernusak{at}cdu.edu.au; fax 61–8–8946–6847.

Received February 9, 2004; returned for revision April 29, 2004; accepted May 3, 2004.




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