Defining the scope for altering rice leaf anatomy to improve photosynthesis: a modelling approach.

ABSTRACT: Leaf structure plays an important role in photosynthesis. However, the causal relationship and the quantitative importance of any single structural parameter to the overall photosynthetic performance of a leaf remains open to debate. In this paper, we report on a mechanistic model, eLeaf, which successfully captures rice leaf photosynthetic performance under varying environmental conditions of light and CO₂ . We developed a 3D reaction-diffusion model for leaf photosynthesis parameterised using a range of imaging data and biochemical measurements from plants grown under ambient and elevated CO₂ and then interrogated the model to quantify the importance of these elements. The model successfully captured leaf-level photosynthetic performance in rice. Photosynthetic meta

SUBMITTER: Xiao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10099902 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature