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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Do Stomata Respond to CO₂ Concentrations Other than Intercellular? ¹

Biology Department UMC 45, Utah State University, Logan, Utah 84322-4500

Most studies on stomatal responses to CO₂ assume that guard cells respond only to intercellular CO₂ concentration and are insensitive to the CO₂ concentrations in the pore and outside the leaf. If stomata are sensitive to the CO₂ concentration at the surface of the leaf or in the stomatal pore, the stomatal response to intercellular CO₂ concentration will be incorrect for a `normally' operating leaf (where ambient CO₂ concentration is a constant). In this study asymmetric CO₂ concentrations for the two surfaces of amphistomatous leaves were used to vary intercellular and leaf surface CO₂ concentrations independently in Xanthium strumarium L. and Helianthus annuus L. The response of stomata to intercellular CO₂ concentration when the concentration at the leaf surface was held constant was found to be the same as the response when the surface concentration was varied. In addition, stomata did not respond to changes in leaf surface CO₂ concentration when the intercellular concentration for that surface was held constant. It is concluded that stomata respond to intercellular CO₂ concentration and are insensitive to the CO₂ concentration at the surface of the leaf and in the stomatal pore.

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