Claim · model-written summary
High-light Paspalum mesophyll chloroplasts contained abundant starch, unlike maize.
- Taxon
- P. conjugatum
Paspalum conjugatume0 - Organ / stage
- Mesophyll chloroplastse0
- Outcome
- large amounts of starche0
- Comparator
- Z. mayse0
- Setting
- high light regimee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mesophyll chloroplasts of P. conjugatum developed under a high light regime also contained large amounts of starch. This was not the case with Z. mays.”
Title
D. A. WARD; H. W. WOOLHOUSE Plant Cell & Environment 1986. doi:10.1111/1365-3040.ep11611679
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Shading reduced maximum photosynthetic rate more in maize than Paspalum.
- Observation In high light, maize maximum photosynthetic rate was twice Paspalum’s.
- Intervention effect Low light did not decrease intercellular CO2 concentration in either species.
- Observation Paspalum intercellular CO2 concentration was 30% greater than maize under high photon flux.
- Observation Paspalum leaf water use efficiency was lower than maize.
- Intervention effect Shading reduced specific leaf weight, leaf thickness and chlorenchyma volume more in maize.
- Observation Paspalum bundle sheath chloroplasts had well-defined grana stacks, unlike maize.