TABLE 6.
Photosynthetic energy and driving force of growth.
| Plant name | RUE (g/MJ) | q (MJ/C-mol) | ΔpsG (MJ/C-mol) | ΔbsG (MJ/C-mol) | ΔDFG (MJ/C-mol) |
| Gossypium hirsutum L. | 1.6 ± 1.5 | 17.0 ± 15.1 | –2.5 ± 2.3 | +0.476 ± 0.005 | –2.1 ± 2.3 |
| Oryza sativa L. | 2.0 ± 0.4 | 13.5 ± 3.0 | –2.0 ± 0.4 | +0.515 ± 0.011 | –1.5 ± 0.4 |
| Phaseolus vulgaris L. | 1.9 ± 0.4 | 16.0 ± 3.0 | –2.4 ± 0.5 | +0.428 ± 0.025 | –2.0 ± 0.5 |
| Saccharum spp. L. | 1.4 ± 0.7 | 19.4 ± 9.5 | –2.9 ± 1.4 | +0.464 ± 0.005 | –2.4 ± 1.4 |
| Zea mays L. | 2.3 ± 1.9 | 11.7 ± 9.7 | –1.8 ± 1.5 | +0.463 ± 0.026 | –1.3 ± 1.5 |
The table contains radiation use efficiency (RUE), intercepted photosynthetic energy (q), usable photosynthetic energy (ΔpsG), Gibbs energy of biosynthesis (ΔbsG), and driving force of growth (ΔDFG). The ΔbsG column gives average values for each species from Table 5. RUE data were taken from Kiniry et al. (1989); Sinclair et al. (1992), Kiniry (1994); Muchow et al. (1994), Milroy and Bange (2003); Lindquist et al. (2005), De Silva and De Costa (2012); Hatfield (2014), Zhao et al. (2015); Ghavidel et al. (2016), Huang et al. (2016); Morales-Ruiz et al. (2016), Olivier et al. (2016); Torres et al. (2017), Jia et al. (2018), and Hatfield and Dold (2019).