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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2014.00012/full |