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An important goal of most photosynthetic models is to predict photosynthetic energy available for plant metabolism. Earlier workers studying quantum efficiency of conversion of light to photosynthetic energy encountered considerable philosophical and experimental difficulties, which have not yet been resolved (Rabinowitch, 1945; Kok, 1972). Oxygen or carbon dioxide exchange of intact organs is typically used as a measure of photosynthetic production of energy. However, difficulties are created by consumption or generation of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and energy by nonphotosynthetic metabolism within a plant organ. Experimentally, the assumption is and has been that light respiration is equivalent to the dark respiration of a photosynthetic system shortly after the light has been shut off. The frustrating question for many years has been: Is light respiration different from dark respiration of previously irradiated plant organs ?
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Alberte, R.S., Hesketh, J.D., Baker, D.N. (1975). Aspects of Predicting Gross Photosynthesis (Net Photosynthesis Plus Light and Dark Respiration) for an Energy-Metabolic Balance in the Plant. In: Gates, D.M., Schmerl, R.B. (eds) Perspectives of Biophysical Ecology. Ecological Studies, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87810-7_6
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