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Chetti MB, Nobel PS. High-temperature sensitivity and its acclimation for photosynthetic electron transport reactions of desert succulents. Plant Physiol. 1987;84(4):1063-7doi: 10.1104/pp.84.4.1063.
Chetti, M. B., & Nobel, P. S. (1987). High-temperature sensitivity and its acclimation for photosynthetic electron transport reactions of desert succulents. Plant physiology, 84(4), 1063-7. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.84.4.1063
Chetti, M B, and Nobel, P S. "High-temperature sensitivity and its acclimation for photosynthetic electron transport reactions of desert succulents." Plant physiology vol. 84,4 (1987): 1063-7. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.84.4.1063
Chetti MB, Nobel PS. High-temperature sensitivity and its acclimation for photosynthetic electron transport reactions of desert succulents. Plant Physiol. 1987 Aug;84(4):1063-7. doi: 10.1104/pp.84.4.1063. PMID: 16665562; PMCID: PMC1056728.
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Plant Physiol. 1987 Aug;84(4):1063-7. doi: 10.1104/pp.84.4.1063.

High-temperature sensitivity and its acclimation for photosynthetic electron transport reactions of desert succulents.

Plant physiology

M B Chetti, P S Nobel

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024.

PMID: 16665562 PMCID: PMC1056728 DOI: 10.1104/pp.84.4.1063

Abstract

Photosynthetic electron transport reactions of succulent plants from hot deserts are able to tolerate extremely high temperatures and to acclimate to seasonal increases in temperature. In this study, we report the influence of relatively long, in vivo, high-temperature treatments on electron transport reactions for two desert succulents, Agave deserti and Opuntia ficus-indica, species which can tolerate 60 degrees C. Whole chain electron transport averaged 3 degrees C more sensitive to a 1-hour high-temperature treatment than did PSII (Photosystem II) which in turn averaged 3 degrees C more sensitive than did PSI. For plants maintained at day/night air temperatures of 30 degrees C/20 degrees C, treatment at 50 degrees C caused these reactions to be inhibited an average of 39% during the first hour, an additional 31% during the next 4 hours, and 100% by 12 hours. Upon shifting the plants from 30 degrees C/20 degrees C to 45 degrees C/35 degrees C, the high temperatures where activity was inhibited 50% increased 3 degrees C to 8 degrees C for the three electron transport reactions, the half-times for acclimation averaging 5 days for A. deserti and 4 days for O. ficus-indica. For the 45 degrees C/35 degrees C plants treated at 60 degrees C for 1 hour, PSI activity was reduced by 54% for A. deserti and 36% for O. ficus-indica. Acclimation leads to a toleration of very high temperatures without substantial disruption of electron transport for these desert succulents, facilitating their survival in hot deserts. Indeed, the electron transport reactions of these species tolerate longer periods at higher temperatures than any other vascular plant so far reported.

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