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- Title
Effects of High Temperature on Chlorophyll Fluorescence Induction and the Kinetics of Far Red Radiation-Induced relaxation of apparent F<sub>0</sub> in maize leaves.
- Authors
Jin, Ming-Xian; Li, De-Yao; Mi, Hualing
- Abstract
Temperature dependence (25–50 °C) of chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence induction, far-red radiation (FR)-induced relaxation of the post-irradiation transient increase in apparent F0, and the trans-thylakoid proton gradients (ΔpH) was examined in maize leaves. Temperatures above 30 °C caused an elevation of F0 level and an enhancement of F0 quenching during actinic irradiation. Millisecond delayed light emission (ms-DLE), which reflects the magnitude of ΔpH, decreased strikingly above 35 °C, and almost disappeared at 50 °C. It indicates that the heat-enhanced quenching of F0 under actinic irradiation could not be attributed mainly to the mechanism of ΔpH-dependent quenching. The relaxation of the post-irradiation transient increase in apparent F0 upon FR irradiation could be decomposed into two exponential components (τ1 = 0.7–1.8 s, τ2 = 2.0–9.9 s). Decay times of both components increased with temperature increasing from 25 to 40–45 °C. The bi-phasic kinetics of FR-induced relaxation of the post-irradiation transient increase in apparent F0 and its temperature dependence may be related to plastoquinone (PQ) compartmentation in the thylakoid membranes and its re-organisation at elevated temperature.
- Publication
Photosynthetica, 2002, Vol 40, Issue 4, p581
- ISSN
0300-3604
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1024360220925