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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Acclimation of Photosynthesis to Elevated CO₂ in Five C₃ Species ¹

Department of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89506

The effect of long-term (weeks to months) CO₂ enhancement on (a) the gas-exchange characteristics, (b) the content and activation state of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (rubisco), and (c) leaf nitrogen, chlorophyll, and dry weight per area were studied in five C₃ species (Chenopodium album, Phaseolus vulgaris, Solanum tuberosum, Solanum melongena, and Brassica oleracea) grown at CO₂ partial pressures of 300 or 900 to 1000 microbars. Long-term exposure to elevated CO₂ affected the CO₂ response of photosynthesis in one of three ways: (a) the initial slope of the CO₂ response was unaffected, but the photosynthetic rate at high CO₂ increased (S. tuberosum); (b) the initial slope decreased but the CO₂-saturated rate of photosynthesis was little affected (C. album, P. vulgaris); (c) both the initial slope and the CO₂-saturated rate of photosynthesis decreased (B. oleracea, S. melongena). In all five species, growth at high CO₂ increased the extent to which photosynthesis was stimulated following a decrease in the partial pressure of O₂ or an increase in measurement CO₂ above 600 microbars. This stimulation indicates that a limitation on photosynthesis by the capacity to regenerate orthophosphate was reduced or absent after acclimation to high CO₂. Leaf nitrogen per area either increased (S. tuberosum, S. melongena) or was little changed by CO₂ enhancement. The content of rubisco was lower in only two of the five species, yet its activation state was 19% to 48% lower in all five species following long-term exposure to high CO₂. These results indicate that during growth in CO₂-enriched air, leaf rubisco content remains in excess of that required to support the observed photosynthetic rates.

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