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Plant Physiology 54:379-381 (1974)
© 1974 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Effects of Magnesium Deficiency on the Photosynthesis and Respiration of Leaves of Sugar Beet 1

Norman Terry and Albert Ulrich

a Department of Soils and Plant Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

The effects of Mg deficiency on the photosynthesis and respiration of sugar beets (Beta vulgaris L. cv. F58-554H1) were studied by withholding Mg from the culture solution and by following changes in CO2 and water vapor exchange of attached leaves. Leaf blade Mg concentration decreased from about 1200 to less than 200 meq kg–1 dry matter without change in the rate of photosynthetic CO2 uptake per unit leaf area, while from 200 to 50 meq kg–1 the rate decreased to one-third. Rates of photorespiratory evolution of CO2 into CO2-free air responded to Mg like those of photosynthetic CO2 uptake, the rates decreasing to one-half, below 200 meq kg–1. Respiratory CO2 evolution in the dark increased almost 2-fold in low Mg leaves. Magnesium deficiency had less effect on leaf (mainly stomatal) diffusion resistance (r1) than on mesophyll resistance (rm); in Mg-deficient plants rm increased from 2.9 to 7.1 sec cm–1, whereas r1 became significantly greater than the control value only in the most severe instances of Mg deficiency.

1 This work was supported by the Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, under cooperative agreement No. 12-14-100-9973(34) and by the Beet Sugar Development Foundation.




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