Claim · model-written summary
SO 2 exposure clearly decreased net photosynthesis.
- Taxon
- Polygonum cuspidatum
Polygonum cuspidatumt0 - Treatment
- SO 2 ‐treatede1
- Outcome
- net photosynthesise0
- Direction
- decreasee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“in spite of a clear decrease in net photosynthesis”
t0“Polygonum cuspidatum”
e1“The leaf carbon assimilation rate (CAR) in SO 2 ‐treated plants”
Title
Responses of dry weight growth under SO 2 stress in an SO 2 ‐tolerant plant, Polygonum cuspidatum
Toshiki Natori; Tsumugu Totsuka Ecological Research 1988. doi:10.1007/bf02348690
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect SO 2 exposure did not significantly decrease total dry weight relative to controls.
- Intervention effect SO 2 exposure increased leaf area and/or leaf dry weight relative to controls.
- Intervention effect SO 2 exposure decreased root dry weight relative to controls.
- Intervention effect SO 2 exposure slightly decreased leaf carbon assimilation rate.
- Intervention effect SO 2 exposure decreased the stem-plus-root dry weight to leaf area ratio relative to controls.
- Intervention effect The total leaf carbon absorption to total root nitrogen absorption ratio was similar in SO 2 exposed plants and controls.
- Mechanism The authors infer that changes in leaf and root growth under SO 2 may compensate for reduced carbon assimilation and maintain the carbon-to-nitrogen absorption ratio.