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American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocapron Ait) is an important agricultural food crop due to its abundant of antioxidants. Yellow vine syndrome of cranberry, interveinal chlorosis moving from older to younger leaves, has been observed in cranberry bogs. The reason for the development of the syndrome is unknown. Our goal is to investigate the mechanisms underlying yellow vine syndrome in cranberry plants and as a result develop a strategy to solve the problem. Recent spectrometric analysis revealed that the yellow vine leaves showed a 22%–24% loss in chlorophyll compared to normal leaves. An in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence analysis indicated that the yellow vine leaves showed substantial loss in the maximum quantum efficiency of PS II. We propose that photoprotection deficiency is a possible mechanism for the formation of yellow vine syndrome in cranberry plants in additional to nutritional imbalance and water stress. Possible limitations and future efforts are sumarized and discussed.
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Chou, LY., He, W., Hou, X., Patel, J., Rasposo, A., Hou, H.J.M. (2013). Yellow Vine Syndrome of American Cranberry: a Mechanistic Assessment. In: Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32034-7_94
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