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ACTA PHYSIOLOGIAE PLANTARUM
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 1659-1668Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-012-0961-7
Keywords
Carbonic anhydrase; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Osmotic adaptation; Photosynthesis; Stable carbon isotope ratio
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- One Hundred Talents Program of The Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31070365]
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We examined the photosynthesis response to osmotic stress in three climber plant species, Pharbitis nil (Linn.) Choisy, Lonicera japonica Thunb, and Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Sieb.et Zucc.) Planch. All climber plants were exposed to osmotic stress induced by polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 at 4 levels (slight, moderate, severe osmotic and the control) for 30 days. Photosynthesis response was determined by measuring leaf photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence, carbonic anhydrase activity and stable carbon isotope ratios. P. nil maintained high photosynthetic activity under long-term moderate osmotic stress due to both stable photosystem II photochemical efficiency and high carbonic anhydrase activity. L. japonica maintained high photosynthetic activity under long-term moderate stress due to high carbonic anhydrase activity rather than photosystem II photochemical efficiency. P. tricuspidata tolerated only short-term moderate osmotic stress and long-term slight osmotic stress because its response was mainly stomatal limitation, with the lowest photosynthetic activity and hardly any carbonic anhydrase activity. Carbonic anhydrase activity was inversely correlated with stable carbon isotope ratios. The regulation by carbonic anhydrase was probably the reason for P. nil and L. japonica to tolerate long-term moderate osmotic stress. The selection on the species should consider the differential adaptation mechanism to osmotic stress during the development of drought-resistant plants.
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