4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 7-11 june 2004 –Montpellier, France Edited by C. Godin et al., pp. 330-334 Within-tree diurnal evolution of net photosynthesis and transpiration of fruiting branches in two apple cultivars : influence of branch structure, geometry and orientation a structure-function modelisation approach Catherine Massonnet, Jean-Luc Regnard, Bo...

The exchange fluxes of carbon dioxide between wet arctic polygonal tundra and the atmosphere were investigated by the micrometeorological eddy covariance method. The investigation site was situated in the centre of the Lena River Delta in Northern Siberia (7222 N, 12630 E). The study region is characterized by a polar and distinctly continental climate, very cold and ice-rich permafrost and its...

Changes in the level of metabolites of the C(4) cycle and reductive pentose phosphate (RPP) pathway were measured simultaneously with induction of photosynthesis in maize (Zea mays L.) to evaluate what may limit carbon assimilation during induction in a C(4) plant.After 20 minutes in the dark, there was an immediate rise in photosynthesis during the first 30 seconds of illumination, followed by...

The hypothesis that net photosynthesis is diminished in many plant species because of a high rate of CO(2) evolution in the light has been tested further. High rates of CO(2) output in CO(2)-free air in comparison with dark respiration were found in Chlamydomonas reinhardi, wheat leaves, tomato leaves, and to a lesser extent in Chlorella pyrenoidosa by means of the (14)C-photorespiration assay....

Bean plants, trimmed to a simplified "double source, double sink" translocation system (the paired primary leaves serving as the double source and the paired lateral leaflets of the immature first trifoliate leaf as the double sink) were used to study the magnitude and short-term time course of change in the allocation ratio (partition ratio) of assimilates translocated from the labeled primary...