A Method to Quantify Relative Stomatal, Mesophyll, and Biochemical Limitations to C₃ Leaf Photosynthesis in a Specific Growth Environment.

ABSTRACT: Determining relative limitations of stomatal, mesophyll, and biochemical components (l_s, l_m, and l_b, respectively) to photosynthetic rate (A) can help understand leaf ecophysiology for specific growth conditions. The differential method has been widely applied to estimate the relative limitations in C₃ plants, first for comparing two contrasting growth conditions, but also increasingly for a single condition. In addition to the common practical issue that estimating mesophyll conductance is sensitive to measurement noise, the method has a theoretical feature when applied to photosynthesis for a single condition, that is, one of the three in-serial underlying parameters differs from the other two in nature. A new method was proposed, in which a co

SUBMITTER: Yin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12489300 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature