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. 2016 Dec 9;55(1):581–589. doi: 10.1080/13880209.2016.1263345

Table 2.

Photosynthetic parameters in the leaves of C. smyrnioides subjected to different relative light intensity: 100% sunlight (Control), 60.54% sunlight (L1), 44.84% sunlight (L2), 31.39% sunlight (L3) and 10.56% sunlight (L4).

Treatment Pn Ci Gs E Pn/E
(μmol/m2·s) (μmol/mol) (mmol/m2·s) (mmol/m2·s1) (μmol/mmol)
Control 20.29 ± 0.12c 264.53 ± 1.53a 0.55 ± 0.03ab 10.11 ± 0.38a 1.99 ± 0.07b
L1 30.68 ± 2.14a 234.78 ± 9.89a 0.63 ± 0.07a 10.95 ± 1.15a 2.82 ± 0.19a
L2 26.22 ± 1.71ab 252.64 ± 5.51a 0.64 ± 0.05a 10.86 ± 1.04a 2.41 ± 0.14ab
L3 22.88 ± 2.08bc 253.78 ± 8.28a 0.54 ± 0.05ab 9.98 ± 0.96a 2.29 ± 0.11ab
L4 13.65 ± 1.32d 264.67 ± 4.18a 0.34 ± 0.02b 7.04 ± 0.71b 1.95 ± 0.09b

Means ± standard deviations (S.D.) (n = 5) are shown. Different superscript letters shown after means denote significant differences at p = 0.05.