Light Effects on Wax Begonia Photosynthesis Growth…光照对蜡海棠光合作用生长的影响.pdfVIP

J. AMER. SOC. HORT. SCI. 129(3):416–424. 2004. Light Effects on Wax Begonia: Photosynthesis, Growth Respiration, Maintenance Respiration, and Carbon Use Efficiency Krishna S. Nemali and M.W. van Iersel1 Department of Horticulture, Miller Plant Sciences Building, the University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7273 ADDITIONAL INDEX WORDS. Begonia semperfl orens, daily light integral, growth rate, light compensation point, photosynthetic photon flux ABSTRACT. The effect of increasing daily light integral (DLI; 5.3, 9.5, 14.4, and 19.4 mol·m–2·d–1) on photosynthesis and respiration of wax begonia (Begonia semperfl orens-cultorum Hort.) was examined by measuring CO2 exchange rates (CER) for a period of 25 d in a whole-plant gas exchange system. Although plant growth rate (GR, increase in dry weight per day) increased linearly with increasing DLI, plants grown at low DLI (5.3 or 9.5 mol·m–2·d–1) respired more carbohydrates than were fixed in photosynthesis during the early growth period (13 and 4 d, respectively), resulting in a negative daily carbon gain (DCG) and GR. Carbon use efficiency [CUE, the ratio of carbon incorporated into the plant to C fixed in gross photosynthesis (P )] of plants grown at low DLI was low, since these plants used most of the C fixed in P for maintenance g g respiration (R ), leaving few, if any, C for growth and growth respiration (R ). Maintenance respiration accounted for a m g smaller fraction of the total respiration with increasing DLI. In addition, the importance of Rm in the carbon balance of