Abstract
Experiments were conducted to examine the development of photosynthetic carbon metabolism in Peperomia scandens, a tropical epiphyte. Leaves were sampled during a 10-day period when they were between 30 to 165 days old. P. scandens exhibits a C3 to CAM-cycling to CAM shift during maturation with the magnitude of CAM increasing with age. Initially, during both day and night, no significant CO2 uptake or diurnal acid flux was evident. C3 gas exchange was detected at 41 days of age with a gradual shift towards CAM gas exchange maximized thereafter. An acidity flux of 130 to 150 microequivalents per gram fresh weight was evident by 41 days. Between 40 and 90 days, the leaves shifted their CO2 uptake pattern from a daytime to a nighttime peak. After 90 days, the leaves remained in CAM. The δ13C values became progressively less negative as the leaves matured. In the 30-day-old leaves, the δ13C value was −21.1% while in the 165-day-old leaves the δ13C value was −18.3%. The time-dependent shift from C3 to CAM-cycling to CAM in P. scandens does not appear to result from changes in water, light, or temperature regimes since these variables were constant for all leaves sampled.
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