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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 1/08/2009 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Photosynthetica |
Issue number | 2 |
Volume | 47 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 304-308 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Water deficit, when rapidly imposed on three C4 grasses of the different metabolic subtypes, Paspalum dilatatum Poiret (NADP-malic enzyme), Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers (NAD-malic enzyme) and Zoysia japonica Steudel (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase), caused decreases in photosynthetic rates, in the quantum yield of PS II and photochemical quenching, and in the activities of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC). The results provide evidence for non-stomatal limitations of photosynthesis differing in nature between the three species.