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Osmotic Response of Sugar Beet Source Leaves at CO₂ Compensation Point ¹

Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio 45469-0001

As sugar beet source leaves lowered the CO₂ concentration to compensation point in a closed atmosphere, leaf thickness and relative water content decreased. Leaf water potential declined rapidly from –0.5 to –1.4 megapascals. At 340 microliters CO₂ per liter, water potential and sucrose, glucose, and fructose contents were steady in photosynthesizing source leaves. Within 90 minutes after leaves were exposed to a CO₂ concentration at the compensation point, leaf sucrose content declined to 60% of the preteatment level, rapidly in the first 30 minutes and then more slowly. During the subsequent 200 minutes, sucrose content increased to 180% of pretreatment level. Glucose and fructose remained unchanged during the treatment. Degradation of starch was sufficient to account for the additional sucrose that accumulated. Labeled carbon lost from starch appeared in sucrose and several other compounds that likely contributed to the recovery in leaf water content.

¹ Supported by National Science Foundation Grants PCM-8008720 and DMB-8303957.

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