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Comparative Growth Analyses of Panicum Species with Differing Rates of Photorespiration ¹

^a Central Research and Development Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware 19898

Panicum milioides, a naturally occurring species with reduced photorespiration, P. bisulcatum, a C₃ species, and P. miliaceum, a C₄ species, were grown for 4 weeks at altered pO₂ and pCO₂ and several vegetative growth parameters were determined at weekly intervals. Compared to a pO₂ of 10%, a greater O₂ inhibition of the relative growth rate and dry matter production was observed for P. bisulcatum than for P. milioides at both 21% and 40% O₂, whereas little effect of O₂ was noted for P. miliaceum. Similarly, exposures to elevated pCO₂ of 500 and 1000 µ1 CO₂/liter resulted in a greater stimulation of vegetative growth for P. bisulcatum than for P. milioides, with little effect on P. miliaceum. The CO₂ compensation concentration of P. milioides was less than that of P. bisulcatum over a pO₂ range of 5 to 40%. At 5% O₂, the compensation concentration was relatively O₂-insensitive, whereas above 5% it increased with increasing pO₂. It is concluded that P. milioides represents the first well documented example of a C₃ plant with reduced photorespiration, based on both leaf CO₂ exchange parameters and growth analyses of dry matter production.

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