Table 1.

List of coefficients used in the protein turnover model for photosynthetic nitrogen pools, carboxylation pool N_V, electron transport pool N_J, and light harvesting pool N_C

Description	Coefficient	Unit	Pool NV	Pool NJ	Pool NC
Degradation constant [Eq. (6)]	D r	°Cd−1	0.0195	0.0195	0.0091
Increase rate constant of Smax with ILd [Eq. (7)]	k I	mmol N m2 ground d m−2 LA °Cd−1 mol−1 photon	0.173	0.130	0.234
Michaelis–Menten constant relating NS to Smax [Eq. (8)]	k N	mM	0.536	0.420	0.316
Potential maximum synthesis rate [Eq. (7)]	S mm	mmol N m−2 °Cd−1	1.122	0.852	0.248
Decreasing constant of synthesis rate [Eq. (5)]	t d	°Cd−1	0.001	0.002	0.001

The coefficients were estimated from the growth chamber experiment. Model variables and other coefficients are listed in Tables 2 and 3.