Photosynthetica 2020, 58(4):1009-1018 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.038

Sugarcane leaf photosynthetic light responses and their difference between varieties under high temperature stress

Y.Y. LIU1,2, J. LI1, S.C. LIU3, Q. YU5,6, X.J. TONG7, T.T. ZHU1,2, X.X. GAO3, L.X. YU†
1 Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China
2 College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China
3 Sugarcane Research Institute, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 661600 Kaiyuan, Yunnan, China
5 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, 712100 Yangling, Shaanxi, China
6 School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, 2007 NSW, Australia
7 College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, 100083 Beijing, China Yunnan Climate Center, 650034 Kunming, Yunnan, China†

Leaf photosynthetic light response (PLR) of six sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) varieties with a high sugar content was measured in the field. PLR curves were fitted by the rectangular hyperbola (RH) model, the nonrectangular hyperbola (NRH) model, and the Ye model, respectively. Photoinhibition occurred under warm and humid environment for all tested sugarcane varieties except for GT02-467 with the photosynthetic rate reduced significantly. The Ye model was the best for PLR curve fitting, especially when photoinhibition occurred. Nearly all PLR parameters estimated by the Ye model were better than the other two models. Some PLR parameters correlated with each other. A significant negative correlation was found between the photoinhibition coefficient and the photosaturation coefficient. The varieties with high light-use efficiency (e.g., YZ99-91 and YZ01-1413) are suitable for dense planting under warming climate, while the varieties with strong ability for dim light use (e.g., GT02-467 and MT69-421) would be appropriate for planting at a high density under warming and dimming climate in the future.

Additional key words: dark respiration rate; light-compensation point; light-saturation point; maximum gross photosynthetic rate.

Received: February 28, 2019; Revised: February 26, 2020; Accepted: April 24, 2020; Prepublished online: July 30, 2020; Published: September 4, 2020  Show citation

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LIU, Y.Y., LI, J., LIU, S.C., YU, Q., TONG, X.J., ZHU, T.T., GAO, X.X., & YU, L.X. (2020). Sugarcane leaf photosynthetic light responses and their difference between varieties under high temperature stress. Photosynthetica, 58(4), 1009-1018. doi: 10.32615/ps.2020.038
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