期刊
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
卷 38, 期 3, 页码 448-460出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12402
关键词
leaf anatomy; photosynthesis; pteridophytes
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science [BFU2011-23294]
- Chilean Ministry of Education [74100061]
Ferns are thought to have lower photosynthetic rates than angiosperms and they lack fine stomatal regulation. However, no study has directly compared photosynthesis in plants of both groups grown under optimal conditions in a common environment. We present a common garden comparison of seven angiosperms and seven ferns paired by habitat preference, with the aims of (1) confirming that ferns do have lower photosynthesis capacity than angiosperms and quantifying these differences; (2) determining the importance of diffusional versus biochemical limitations; and (3) analysing the potential implication of leaf anatomical traits in setting the photosynthesis capacity in both groups. On average, the photosynthetic rate of ferns was about half that of angiosperms, and they exhibited lower stomatal and mesophyll conductance to CO2 (g(m)), maximum velocity of carboxylation and electron transport rate. A quantitative limitation analysis revealed that stomatal and mesophyll conductances were co-responsible for the lower photosynthesis of ferns as compared with angiosperms. However, g(m) alone was the most constraining factor for photosynthesis in ferns. Consistently, leaf anatomy showed important differences between angiosperms and ferns, especially in cell wall thickness and the surface of chloroplasts exposed to intercellular air spaces. No previous studies simultaneously compared the photosynthetic functioning of ferns and angiosperms in a common garden. The photosynthetic rate of ferns was about half that of angiosperms, being stomatal and mesophyll conductances co-responsible for the lower photosynthesis. The photosynthesis in ferns was mainly constrained by g(m,) being cell wall thickness and the surface of chloroplasts exposed to intercellular air spaces the most related anatomical traits.
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