Fig. 3.
Relationship between leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC) and leaf photosynthetic parameters. The correlation study was performed for high-nitrogen (HN) treatment (n=17) and low-nitrogen (LN) treatment (n=21). The leaf photosynthetic parameters used include light-saturated photosynthetic rate Asat (A), maximum apparent quantum yield for CO2 (ΦCO2) (B), and curvature factor (θ) of the response of photosynthetic CO2 uptake to incident photosynthetic photon flux density (A-PPFD) (C). LNC was calculated as LNC=(leaf nitrogen dry weight)/(leaf dry weight)×100%.