Claim · model-written summary
Water stress reduced stomatal conductance and net photosynthetic rate in both chickpea genotypes.
- Taxon
- Cicer arietinum
Cicer arietinume1 - Material
- ChK 3226 and ILC 3279e1
- Treatment
- Water stress (S1, RWC around 55-50%; S2, RWC ≤ 40%)e2
- Outcome
- stomatal conductance (g s) and net photosynthetic rate (P N)e2
- Direction
- drastically reducede2
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Verbatim
e1“Drought was induced in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes (ChK 3226 and ILC 3279) differing in yield capacity”
e2“Water stress (S1, RWC around 55-50%; S2, RWC ≤ 40%) drastically reduced stomatal conductance (g s) and net photosynthetic rate (P N) in both genotypes”
Title
M. C. Matos; P. S. Campos; J. A. Passarinho; et al. Photosynthetica 2010. doi:10.1007/s11099-010-0038-z
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Intervention effect ILC 3279 showed greater decreases in photosynthetic capacity (A max) under water stress.
- Intervention effect Fv/Fm and qP showed stability in both chickpea genotypes under stress.
- Intervention effect Total chlorophyll and carotenoid contents showed stability in both chickpea genotypes under stress.
- Intervention effect In S2, ILC 3279 showed an increase in basal fluorescence (F0) relative to ChK 3226.
- Intervention effect In S2, ILC 3279 showed a greater reduction in quantum yield of linear electron transport than ChK 3226.
- Intervention effect Membrane damage occurred earlier and was greater in ILC 3279 under drought.
- Intervention effect Total fatty acids decreased along drought in ILC 3279.
- Intervention effect ChK 3226 had greater total fatty acid amounts in S1.
- Intervention effect After rehydration, P N of ILC 3279 in S1 completely recovered to control.
- Intervention effect After rehydration, P N of ChK 3226 in S1 remained slightly below control.
- Intervention effect Under S2, ILC 3279 showed stronger P N and g s reductions than ChK 3226.
- Intervention effect Both chickpea genotypes totally recovered maximum photosynthetic capacity (A max) and chlorophyll a fluorescence after rehydration.
- Intervention effect ChK 3226 recovered more efficiently from membrane damage than ILC 3279.
- Observation Under control conditions, ChK 3226 had greater amounts of most soluble metabolites.
- Intervention effect Malate and citrate decreased under S2 in both chickpea genotypes.
- Intervention effect Sucrose and pinitol increased in ILC 3279 under S1 and S2.
- Intervention effect Sucrose and pinitol decreased in ChK 3226 under S2.
- Observation Root dry mass was higher in ChK 3226 than in ILC 3279 in control plants.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced root and shoot dry mass of ChK 3226 already under S1.