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. 2016 Dec 23;68(3):657–671. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erw469

Table 1.

Effect of growth irradiance on respiration and photosynthesis in well-watered WT tobacco, AOX overexpressors (B8, B7) and AOX knockdowns (RI9, RI29). Data are the average ±SE of three to five independent experiments. Within an irradiance, values not sharing a common superscript letter are significantly different from one another (P<0.05). In data sets without superscript letters, there are no significant differences between plant lines. See text for further details.

Growth irradiance (µmol photons m –2 s –1)
150 PPFD 400 PPFD 700 PPFD
B8 B7 WT RI9 RI29 B8 B7 WT RI9 RI29 B8 B7 WT RI9 RI29
F v/Fm 0.82 ± 0.02 0.80 ± 0.01 0.82 ± 0.01 0.81 ± 0.02 0.80 ± 0.02 0.81 ± 0.01 0.80 ± 0.02 0.79 ± 0.01 0.82 ± 0.01 0.82 ± 0.01 0.80 ± 0.02 0.79 ± 0.01 0.81 ± 0.02 0.80 ± 0.01 0.82 ± 0.02
R D (µmol CO2 m–2 s–1) 0.72 ± 0.04 0.77 ± 0.02 0.83 ± 0.04 0.87 ± 0.03 0.78 ± 0.05 0.97 ± 0.06 0.93 ± 0.08 0.99 ± 0.05 1.10 ± 0.06 0.89 ± 0.08 1.25 ± 0.07 1.48 ± 0.15 1.32 ± 0.10 1.19 ± 0.09 1.35 ± 0.06
R L (µmol CO2 m–2 s–1) 0.64 ± 0.04 0.61 ± 0.05 0.72 ± 0.03 0.69 ± 0.05 0.64 ± 0.05 1.05 ± 0.07 1.09 ± 0.09 1.17 ± 0.12 1.07 ± 0.09 1.16 ± 0.08 1.72 ± 0.2 1.93 ± 0.14 1.81 ± 0.16 1.67 ± 0.13 1.79 ± 0.18
Measured at growth PPFD
A net (µmol CO2 m–2 s–1) 3.09 ± 0.28 3.37 ± 0.47 3.49 ± 0.24 3.65 ± 0.27 3.73 ± 0.32 7.40 ± 0.56 7.35 ± 0.15 7.75 ± 0.54 7.26 ± 0.28 6.91 ± 0.72 9.63 ± 0.88 10.13 ± 0.47 10.19 ± 0.48 9.37 ± 0.37 8.71 ± 0.60
g snet (mol CO2 m–2 s–1) 0.066 ± 0.003 0.062 ± 0.012 0.065 ± 0.008 0.069 ± 0.005 0.067 ± 0.004 0.087 ± 0.036 0.098 ± 0.020 0.072 ± 0.014 0.76 ± 0.05 0.068 ± 0.016 0.171 ± 0.031 0.156 ± 0.027 0.181 ± 0.16 0.149 ± 0.023 0.165 ± 0.038
Φ PSIInet 0.73 ± 0.14 0.71 ± 0.11 0.76 ± 0.08 0.74 ± 0.12 0.70 ± 0.15 0.49 ± 0.09 0.54 ± 0.06 0.51 ± 0.08 0.47 ± 0.10 0.52 ± 0.05 0.38 ± 0.04 0.34 ± 0.05 0.37 ± 0.02 0.39 ± 0.02 0.33 ± 0.04
ETRnet (µmol e m–2 s–1) 45 ± 1.2 47 ± 1.7 41 ± 2.29 45 ± 1.3 42 ± 2.7 80 ± 3.1 77 ± 5.3 90 ± 8.6 78 ± 5.7 82 ± 1.5 105 ± 2.4 110 ± 5.2 120 ± 9.1 116 ± 9.1 115 ± 4.4
NPQnet 0.19 ± 0.03 0.20 ± 0.02 0.20 ± 0.03 0.17 ± 0.02 0.18 ± 0.03 0.77 ± 0.10 0.78 ± 0.10 0.79 ± 0.11 0.76 ± 0.05 0.82 ± 0.06 1.23 ± 0.21 1.06 ± 0.17 1.20 ± 0.16 1.24 ± 0.15 1.35 ± 0.17
Measured at 1600 PPFD
A sat (µmol CO2 m–2 s–1) 10.72 ± 0.44ab 11.13 ± 0.48ab 11.55 ± 0.44a 10.71 ± 0.70ab 9.45 ± 0.40b 11.87 ± 1.04 12.42 ± 0.82 12.94 ± 0.39 10.70 ± 0.89 12.08 ± 0.42 13.17 ± 0.56ab 14.49 ± 0.74a 13.51 ± 0.41a 12.92 ± 0.34ab 11.29 ± 0.52b
g ssat (mol CO2 m–2 s–1) 0.166 ± 0.01ab 0.178 ± 0.021a 0.183 ± 0.019a 0.147 ± 0.01bc 0.139 ± 0.006c 0.171 ± 0.014b 0.203 ± 0.003a 0.212 ± 0.006a 0.170 ± 0.004b 0.166 ± 0.013b 0.226 ± 0.007 0.218 ± 0.033 0.232 ± 0.025 0.213 ± 0.008 0.225 ± 0.016
Φ PSIIsat 0.214 ± 0.008 0.203 ± 0.005 0.219 ± 0.016 0.192 ± 0.010 0.227 ± 0.009 0.223 ± 0.021 0.235 ± 0.008 0.201 ± 0.015 0.209 ± 0.062 0.216 ± 0.053 0.202 ± 0.010 0.189 ± 0.021 0.182 ± 0.017 0.166 ± 0.051 0.179 ± 0.043
ETRsat (µmol e m–2 s–1) 152 ± 10.3 147 ± 8.3 154 ± 6.2 143 ± 6.7 158 ± 4.1 143 ± 5.5 141 ± 9.8 151 ± 9.6 156 ± 7.8 148 ± 11.7 136 ± 12.9 130 ± 14.3 121 ± 0.71 136 ± 6.6 128 ± 6.7
NPQsat 2.08 ± 0.15 1.89 ± 0.08 1.97 ± 0.10 1.88 ± 0.09 1.96 ± 0.08 1.77 ± 0.11 1.71 ± 0.05 1.83 ± 0.17 1.70 ± 0.09 1.72 ± 0.16 1.53 ± 0.11 1.66 ± 0.10 1.55 ± 0.08 1.61 ± 0.15 1.68 ± 0.11