Photosynthetic parameters in Italian (IT, red bars) and Bulgarian (BG, blue bars) populations of P. orientalis plants under control (FTSW = 95%) and drought (FTSW = 28%) conditions and after re-watering (FTSW = 90%R). CO2 saturated photosynthetic rate (Asat, panel A), mesophyll conductance (gm, panel B), chloroplastic [CO2] at Ci = 400 ppm (Cc, panel C), maximum carboxylation rate of Rubisco (Vcmax, panel D), maximum rate of photosynthetic electron transport (Jmax, panel E), triose phosphate utilization (TPU, panel F), carboxylation rate (vc, panel G), oxygenation rate (vo, panel H) and photorespiration rate (Rp, panel I). Data are means ± SE of eight independent samples. Statistically significant differences (Tukey’s test, p < 0.05) between the IT and BG ecotypes are indicated by different letters.