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Photosynthetic Rate Control in Cotton ¹

Stomatal and Nonstomatal Factors

Plant and Soil Science Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Lubbock, Texas 79409

The relationship between single leaf photosynthesis and conductance was examined in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) across a range of environmental conditions. The purpose of this research was to separate and define the degree of stomatal and nonstomatal limitations in the photosynthetic process of field-grown cotton.

Photosynthetic rates were related to leaf conductance of upper canopy leaves in a curvilinear manner. Increases in leaf conductance of CO₂ in excess of 0.3 to 0.4 mole per square meter per second did not result in significant increases in gross or net photosynthetic rates. No tight coupling between environmental influences on photosynthetic rates and those affecting conductance levels was evident, since photosynthesis per unit leaf conductance did not remain constant. Slowly developing water stress caused greater reductions in photosynthesis than in leaf conductance, indicating nonstomatal limitations of photosynthesis.

Increases in external CO₂ concentration to levels above ambient did not produce proportional increases in photosynthesis even though substomatal or intercellular CO₂ concentration increased. The lack of a linear increase in photosynthetic rate in response to increases in leaf conductance and in response to increases in external CO₂ concentration demonstrated that nonstomatal factors are major photosynthetic rate determinants of cotton under field conditions.

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