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Environmental and Stress Physiology

The Sequence of Change within the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Wheat following Short-Term Exposure to Ozone ¹

Department of Biology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom, Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Vienna, Vienna A-1091, Austria

The basis of inhibition of photosynthesis by single acute O₃ exposures was investigated in vivo using analyses based on leaf gas exchange measurements. The fully expanded second leaves of wheat plants (Triticum aestivum L. cv Avalon) were fumigated with either 200 or 400 nanomoles per mole O₃ for between 4 and 16 hours. This reduced significantly the light-saturated rate of CO₂ uptake and was accompanied by a parallel decrease in stomatal conductance. However, the stomatal limitation, estimated from the relationship between CO₂ uptake and the internal CO₂ concentration, only increased significantly during the first 8 hours of exposure to 400 nanomoles per mole O₃; no significant increase occurred for any of the other treatments. Analysis of the response of CO₂ uptake to the internal CO₂ concentration implied that the predominant factor responsible for the reduction in light-saturated CO₂ uptake was a decrease in the efficiency of carboxylation. This was 58 and 21% of the control value after 16 hours at 200 and 400 nanomoles per mole O₃, respectively. At saturating concentrations of CO₂, photosynthesis was inhibited by no more than 22% after 16 hours, indicating that the capacity for regeneration of ribulose bisphosphate was less susceptible to O₃. Ozone fumigations also had a less pronounced effect on light-limited photosynthesis. The maximum quantum yield of CO₂ uptake and the quantum yield of oxygen evolution showed no significant decline after 16 hours with 200 nanomoles per mole O₃, requiring 8 hours at 400 nanomoles per mole O₃ before a significant reduction occurred. The photochemical efficiency of photosystem II estimated from the ratio of variable to maximum chlorophyll fluorescence and the atrazine-binding capacity of isolated thylakoids demonstrated that photochemical reactions were not responsible for the initial inhibition of CO₂ uptake. The results suggest that the apparent carboxylation efficiency appears to be the initial cause of decline in photosynthesis in vivo following acute O₃ fumigation.

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