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The ability to measure photosynthetic rates of leaves or whole plants in the field is crucial not only to plant physiology, but to many other disciplines, such as ecology and entomology. Historically, the limitation to field measurements of gas exchange has been the measurement of CO2. The requirements involved either a mobile laboratory to get the analysis equipment into the field, or else techniques whereby samples (such as syringes containing gas samples or plant material labeled with 14CO2) could be taken back to a laboratory for subsequent analysis (11).
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Welles, J. (1986). A Portable Photosynthesis System. In: Gensler, W.G. (eds) Advanced Agricultural Instrumentation. NATO ASI Series, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4404-6_2
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