Fig. 2.
Changes in assimilatory quotient with the shift from to
(ΔAQ) as a function of photosynthetic PFD in shoots of A. thaliana cv. Columbia. Thirty-six-day-old wild-type plants (A), 48-d-old wild-type plants (B), a genotype with mutations in the two structural genes for
reductase (nia1 nia2) (C), and a transgenic line harboring the chimeric gene Lhch1*3::Nia1*2 (D). The plants were grown under ambient CO2 (360 μmol·mol-1) and measured under ambient CO2 and O2 (360 μmol·mol-1 CO2 and 21% O2; circles), elevated CO2 (720 μmol·mol-1 CO2 and 21% O2; triangles), or low O2 (360 μmol·mol-1 CO2 and 2% O2; squares). Shown are the mean ± SE, n = 5-8 plants.