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Ozone effects on dry matter partitioning and chlorophyll fluorescence during plant development of wheat

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In closed-chamber fumigation experiments dry matter partitioning and chlorophyll fluorescence of wheat were studied, analysing the effects of ozone during different stages of plant development. Ozone causes enhanced leaf senescence, leading to a loss of green leaf area and, consequently to a decreased supply of assimilates, affecting (in increasing order of severeness) stem, ear and grain productivity because of reduced storage pools for translocation. Leaves of plants before shooting stage were most sensitive but the lack of green leaf area after ear emergence had the most pronounced effects on grain yield.

Measurements of photochemical capacity showed that evidence for negative ozone effects could be found in changes of chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in leaf sections not yet showing visible ozone injury. Negative effects on photosynthesis were more distinct with increasing accumulated ozone dose, with increasing age of leaf tissue and with increasing ozone sensitivity of the cultivar. The changes in chlorophyll fluorescence are most likely to be explained by a decreased pool size of plastoquinones caused by ozone.

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  1. Dept. of Agricultural Research, Research Centre Seibersdorf, A-2444, Seibersdorf, Austria

    G. Soja

  2. Inst. of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Agricultural University Vienna, A-1180, Wien, Austria

    A.-M. Soja

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Soja, G., Soja, AM. Ozone effects on dry matter partitioning and chlorophyll fluorescence during plant development of wheat. Water Air Soil Pollut 85, 1461–1466 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00477187

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