The effect of irradiance on the carbon balance and tissue characteristics of five herbaceous species differing in shade-tolerance

Plant photosynthesis scales positively with growth irradiance. The carbon balance, defined here as the daily whole-plant gross CO2 assimilation (A) partitioned in C available for growth and C required for respiration (R), is thus irradiance dependent. Here we ask if R as a fraction of A is also irra...

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Main Authors: Thijs Leendert Pons, Hendrik ePoorter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2014.00012/full