Photosynthetica 2020, 58(5):1130-1140 | DOI: 10.32615/ps.2020.066

Responses of photosynthetic characteristics and growth in rice and winter wheat to different elevated CO2 concentrations

C. LIU1, Z.H. HU1, L.F. YU2, S.T. CHEN1, X.M. LIU2
1 Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, 210044 Nanjing, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093 Beijing, China

This study investigated the effects of different elevated CO2 concentrations [ambient CO2 concentration (CK), CK plus 40 μmol mol-1 (T1), CK plus 200 μmol mol-1 (T2)] on photosynthetic characteristics and growth of rice (Oryza sativa L.) and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The results showed that T2 treatment decreased the net photosynthetic rate and leaf nitrogen content (LNC) but increased the light-saturated net photosynthetic rate of rice. Additionally, T2 treatment increased biomass accumulation and yield in both rice and winter wheat to some extent. T1 treatment, however, had little effect on photosynthetic parameters, LNC, biomass, and yield during the rice and winter wheat growing seasons. The above results suggest that the photosynthesis and growth responses of rice and winter wheat to different CO2 concentrations differed, in general, the increase of CO2 concentrations influenced more photosynthetic performance and growth of C3 plants than lower CO2 concentrations.

Additional key words: climate change; crop; gas exchange; open-top chamber; photosynthetic acclimation.

Received: June 22, 2020; Revised: August 30, 2020; Accepted: September 22, 2020; Prepublished online: October 6, 2020; Published: December 8, 2020  Show citation

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LIU, C., HU, Z.H., YU, L.F., CHEN, S.T., & LIU, X.M. (2020). Responses of photosynthetic characteristics and growth in rice and winter wheat to different elevated CO2 concentrations. Photosynthetica, 58(5), 1130-1140. doi: 10.32615/ps.2020.066
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