Table 1.
Abbreviations, symbols used and their units used in the text.
| Symbol | Definition | Units |
|---|---|---|
| 3-PGA | 3-phosphoglyceric acid | – |
| CA | Carbonic anhydrase | – |
| Chl | Chlorophyll | μmol m-2 |
| Chl a | Chlorophyll a | μmol m-2 |
| Chl b | Chlorophyll b | μmol m-2 |
| Fd | Ferredoxin | - |
| gbs | Bundle-sheath conductance | - |
| LHCII | Light harvest complex | - |
| LUS | Rubisco large subunits | - |
| Mal | Malate | - |
| MDH | Malate dehydrogenase | - |
| N | Nitrogen | - |
| Na | Nitrogen in amino acids | mg m-2 |
| Nb | Nitrogen in bioenergetic protein | mg m-2 |
| Nb/NTH | Fraction of thylakoid nitrogen allocated to bioenergetics | % |
| Ncw | Nitrogen in cell wall | mg m-2 |
| Nh | Nitrogen in light-harvesting protein | mg m-2 |
| Nh/NTH | Fraction of thylakoid nitrogen allocated to light-harvesting protein | % |
| ns | Not significant | - |
| Ns | Nitrogen in the soluble proteins other than PEPC, PPDK, and Rubisco | mg m-2 |
| NT | Nitrogen in thylakoid | mg m-2 |
| NTH/N | Fraction of nitrogen allocated to thylakoid | % |
| OAA | Oxaloacetic acid | - |
| PC | Plastocyanin | - |
| PEPC | Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase | - |
| Pn | Photosynthetic rate | μmol CO2 m-2 s-1 |
| Pmax | Maximum photosynthetic rate | μmol CO2 m-2 s-1 |
| PNUE | Photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency | μmol CO2 g-1N s-1 |
| PPDK | Pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase | - |
| PQ | Plastoquinone | - |
| PSI | Photosystem I | - |
| PSII | Photosystem II | - |
| Pyr | Pyruvate | - |
| Rubisco | Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase | - |
| RuBP | Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate | - |
| SLN | Specific leaf nitrogen | g m-2 |
| SSU | Rubisco small subunits | - |
| Triose-P | Triose-phosphate | - |