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Analytical Gas Exchange Measurements of Photosynthetic CO2 Assimilation

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Gases in Plant and Microbial Cells

Part of the book series: Modern Methods of Plant Analysis ((MOLMETHPLANT,volume 9))

Abstract

Carbon dioxide is assimilated by plants in the process of photosynthesis. Virtually all life depends on this process. The measurement of carbon dioxide assimilation is one method for studying photosynthesis which is adaptable both to reductionist questions such as what specific biochemical process limits the overall rate of photosynthesis and to ecophysiological questions such as how does water stress affect photosynthesis. The techniques required by reductionists and ecophysiologists are similar and are the subject of this chapter. Other descriptions of these methods will also be useful (Bloom et al. 1980; Field et al. 1982 and in press; Ball 1987; Field and Mooney in press).

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    Hans-Ferdinand Linskens

  2. Department of Biochemistry Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, SA, 5064, Australia

    John F. Jackson

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Sharkey, T.D. (1989). Analytical Gas Exchange Measurements of Photosynthetic CO2 Assimilation. In: Linskens, HF., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Gases in Plant and Microbial Cells. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83346-5_5

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