Photosynthetica 2007, 45(1):153-155 | DOI: 10.1007/s11099-007-0025-1

Dipterocarpus obtusifolius exhibits enhanced photosynthetic capacity at high temperatures

M. Norisada1,*, K. Kojima1
1 Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Seedlings planted on degraded lands experience high leaf temperature in daytime because of the lack of vegetation shading. The effect of high temperature on the photosynthetic capacity was investigated in Dipterocarpus obtusifolius Teijsm. ex Miq. and D. chartaceus Sym. seedlings planted on degraded sandy soils in southern Thailand. Neither species showed decrease in photosynthetic capacity at leaf temperature over 38 °C as compared to that at 28 °C. D. obtusifolius showed higher photosynthetic capacity at high temperatures. Enhanced photosynthetic capacity at high temperatures would be a key for high photosynthetic performance of D. obtusifolius planted on degraded sandy soils.

Additional key words: Acacia; electron transport; Hopea; leaf temperature; photon-and CO2-saturated photosynthetic rate; RuBP regeneration

Received: March 22, 2006; Accepted: June 26, 2006; Published: March 1, 2007  Show citation

ACS AIP APA ASA Harvard Chicago Chicago Notes IEEE ISO690 MLA NLM Turabian Vancouver
Norisada, M., & Kojima, K. (2007). Dipterocarpus obtusifolius exhibits enhanced photosynthetic capacity at high temperatures. Photosynthetica, 45(1), 153-155. doi: 10.1007/s11099-007-0025-1
Share...
Download citation
  • BibTeX (.bib)
  • Bookends (.ris)
  • EasyBib (.ris)
  • EndNote (.enw)
  • EndNote 8 (.xml)
  • ISI WoS (.isi)
  • Medlars (.medlars)
  • Mendeley (.ris)
  • MODS (.xml)
  • Papers (.ris)
  • RefWorks (.txt)
  • RefManager (.ris)
  • RIS (.ris)
  • MS Word (.xml)
  • Zotero (.ris)
    • Open full article

    References

    1. Bernacchi, C.J., Portis, A.R., Nakano, H., Caemmerer, S. von, Long, S.P.: Temperature response of mesophyll conductance. Implications for the determination of Rubisco enzyme kinetics and for limitations to photosynthesis in vivo.-Plant Physiol. 130: 1992-1998, 2002. Go to original source...
    2. Clearwater, M.J., Susilawaty, R., Effendi, R., van Gardingen, P.R.: Rapid photosynthetic acclimation of Shorea johorensis seedlings after logging disturbance in Central Kalimantan.-Oecologia 121: 478-488, 1999. Go to original source...
    3. Dreyer, E., Le Roux, X., Montpied, P., Daudet, F.A., Masson, F.: Temperature response of leaf photosynthetic capacity in seedlings from seven temperate tree species.-Tree Physiol. 21: 223-232, 2001. Go to original source...
    4. Feller, U., Crafts-Brandner, S.J., Salvucci, M.E.: Moderately high temperatures inhibit ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) activase-mediated activation of Rubisco.-Plant Physiol. 116: 539-546, 1998. Go to original source...
    5. Haldimann, P., Feller, U.: Inhibition of photosynthesis by high temperature in oak (Quercus pubescens L.) leaves grown under natural conditions closely correlates with a reversible heat-dependent reduction of the activation state of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase.-Plant Cell Environ. 27: 1169-1183, 2004. Go to original source...
    6. Königer, M., Harris, G.C., Virgo, A., Winter, K.: Xanthophyll-cycle pigments and photosynthetic capacity in tropical forest species: a comparative field study on canopy, gap and understory plants.-Oecologia 104: 280-290, 1995. Go to original source...
    7. Leakey, A.D.B., Press, M.C., Scholes, J.D.: High-temperature inhibition of photosynthesis is greater under sunflecks than uniform irradiance in a tropical rain forest tree seedling.-Plant Cell Environ. 26: 1681-1690, 2003. Go to original source...
    8. Medlyn, B.E., Dreyer, E., Ellsworth, D., Forstreuter, M., Harley, P.C., Kirschbaum, M.U.F., Le Roux, X., Montpied, P., Strassemeyer, J., Walcraft, A., Wang, K., Loustau, D.: Temperature response of parameters of a biochemically based model of photosynthesis. II. A review of experimental data.-Plant Cell Environ. 25: 1167-1179, 2002. Go to original source...
    9. Norisada, M., Hitsuma, G., Kuroda, K., Yamanoshita, T., Masumori, M., Tange, T., Yagi, H., Nuyim, T., Sasaki, S., Kojima, K.: Acacia mangium, a nurse-tree candidate for reforestation on degraded sandy soils in the Malay Peninsula.-Forest Sci. 51: 498-510, 2005.
    10. Norisada, M., Kojima, K.: Photosynthetic characteristics of dipterocarp species planted on degraded sandy soils in southern Thailand.-Photosynthetica 43: 491-499, 2005. Go to original source...
    11. Salvucci, M.E., Osteryoung, K.W., Crafts-Brandner, S.J., Vierling, E.: Exceptional sensitivity of rubisco activase to thermal denaturation in vitro and in vivo.-Plant Physiol. 127: 1053-1064, 2001. Go to original source...
    12. Wise, R.R., Olson, A.J., Schrader, S.M., Sharkey, T.D.: Electron transport is the functional limitation of photosynthesis in field-grown Pima cotton plants at high temperature.-Plant Cell Environ. 27: 717-724, 2004. Go to original source...

    Return to the content