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Photosynthesis in Submersed Macrophytes of a Temperate Lake ¹

W. K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan 49060

The photosynthetic carbon fixation pathways and levels of carbon-fixing enzymes of four dominant submersed macrophytes of Lawrence Lake, southern Michigan, were investigated during the main growth season (May to November). All four species (Scirpus subterminalis Torr., Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. and Schmidt, Potamogeton praelongus Wulf., and Myriophyllum heterophyllum Michx.) were C₃ plants based on their patterns of ¹⁴C pulse-chase incorporation. High levels of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase were also found in these species. These levels, as well as the ribulose 1,5-biphosphate carboxylase/phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase ratio of the leaves, varied throughout the growing season and exhibited highest values in July. No shift in carbon fixation pathways, however, could be detected from July to October. The possible functions of phosphoenolypyruvate carboxylase in these plants, as well as the significance of C₃ metabolism in submersed plants of temperate lakes, are delineated.

¹ Contribution No. 482, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University. Supported by the United States Department of Energy (DE-AC02-76E01599, C00-1599-210).

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