Study of the non-photochemical dark rise in chlorophyll fluorescence in pre-illuminated leaves of various C3 and C4 plants submitted to partial anaerobiosis | [Etude de l'augmentation non photochimique de la fluorescence de la chlorophylle dans l'obscurite des feuilles pre-eclairees de plusieures plantes en C3 et C4 soumises a une anaerobiose partielle]
1999
Farineau, J. (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Gif sur Yvette (France). Section de Bioenergetique)
Changes in chlorophyll fluorescence yield were studied during a dark period in pre-illuminated leaves of various C3 and C4 plants. The oxygen content in the gaseous atmosphere was either normal (21 kPa) or low (1.5 or 0.36 kPa). C3 and C4 plants of the NAD malic enzyme subgroup showed an initial rise in fluorescence at the onset of the dark period with an amplitude depending on the O2 level in the gas. In C4 plants belonging to the other two subgroups, the slow rise was absent or of very low size. At high [O2], the fluorescence level decreased in some minutes to the initial F0 level (determined in dark-adapted leaves). Conversely at low [O2], the fluorescence yield remained higher than F0 in all the C4 plants studied, whereas it decreased slowly to the F0 level in the different C3 plants. At low [O2], the fluorescence level decreased rapidly to F0o when introducing for 30 s. a high O2 level or when giving a 15-s far-red illumination. At the end of these treatments, the fluorescence level re-increased. These results demonstrate the presence at low [O2] of highly fluorescent 'closed' photosystem 2 centres containing QA in equilibrium with reduced plastoquinone molecules of the chloroplastic pool. Reoxidation of the plastoquinone pool would be dependent on the functioning of an oxidase probably dependent on a chlororespiration process fully active at O2 levels higher than 2 kPa. The source of reducing equivalents for the plastoquinone pool is discussed
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