Photosynthetica 1998, 35(4):637-640 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1006951628745

Enhanced Water Use Efficiency in Dry Loess Grassland Species Grown at Elevated Air CO2 Concentration

K. Szente1, Z. Nagy1, Z. Tuba1
1 Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Agricultural University of Gödöllő, Gödöllő, Hungary

Net CO2 assimilation rate (PN), stomatal conductance (gs), transpiration rate (E), and water use efficiency (WUE) in four perennial C3 species (grasses: Dactylis glomerata, Festuca rupicola, dicots: Filipendula vulgaris, Salvia nemorosa) grown for 231 d in open-top chambers at ambient (CA, 350 µmol mol-1) or elevated (CE, 700 µmol mol-1) CO2 concentrations were compared. When measured at CE, PN was significantly higher in CE plants of all four species than in the CA ones. The increase in PN was less prominent in the two grasses than in the two dicots. The E was significantly higher in the CE-grass F. rupicola and CE-dicot F. vulgaris than in the CA plants. There was no change in E owing to CE in the other grass and dicot. The gs in F. vulgaris and F. rupicola increased, while there was a decrease in D. glomerata and no change in S. nemorosa. WUE increased in all species grown in CE: four- to five-fold in the dicots and less than two-fold in the grasses. The increase in WUE was primarily due to an increase in PN and not to a decrease in E.

Additional key words: acclimation; gas exchange; net photosynthetic rate; stomatal conductance; transpiration rate

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Szente, K., Nagy, Z., & Tuba, Z. (1998). Enhanced Water Use Efficiency in Dry Loess Grassland Species Grown at Elevated Air CO2 Concentration. Photosynthetica, 35(4), 637-640. doi: 10.1023/A:1006951628745
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