ReviewPhotosynthesis research2014
Thermal acclimation of photosynthesis: on the importance of adjusting our definitions and accounting for thermal acclimation of respiration.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Photosynthetic responses to temperature across the tropics: a meta-analytic approach.Annals of botany · 2025Pooled it
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- A renewed focus on carbon uptake and use to enhance crop performance in the face of rising temperatures.Plant physiology · 2026Review
- Increasingly severe thermal stresses on global photosynthesis using insights from observations of canopy temperature.National science review · 2026Article
- Wheat leaf dark respiration acclimates more strongly at night than in the day when responding to nocturnal warming.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Leaf temperature and its departure from ambient air temperature.Nature plants · 2026Review
- Heat treatment duration affects in vitro-induced photosynthetic impairment and development of necrotic leaf tissue in three Mediterranean oak species.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Tropical forest trees with higher thermal optima of photosynthesis exhibit lower PSII heat stability.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Coupling between stomatal conductance and photosynthesis of subtropical tree seedlings under warming and progressive drought.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Photoperiod does not affect thermal acclimation of shoot-scale gas exchange but is important for shoot development in cuttings of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst).Tree physiology · 2025Article
- Environmental factors have a greater influence on photosynthetic capacity in CThe New phytologist · 2025Article
- Photosynthetic Heat Tolerance Partially Acclimates to Growth Temperature in Tropical Montane Tree Species.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Thermal acclimation fails to confer a carbon budget advantage to invasive species over natives.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Declining growth and changes in biomass allocation with warming in rainforest trees from temperate to tropical climates.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
- Temporal constraints on leaf-level trait plasticity for next-generation land surface models.Annals of botany · 2025Review
- Photosynthetic capacity is reduced by warming but unaffected by elevated CO2 in seedlings of five boreal tree species.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Simulation of dry matter partitioning in cucumber fruits: reflecting gas exchange characteristics based on leaf position and cropping type.Horticulture research · 2025Article
- Understanding the photosynthesis in relation to climate change in grapevines.Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2025Review
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Abstract
While interest in photosynthetic thermal acclimation has been stimulated by climate warming, comparing results across studies requires consistent terminology. We identify five types of photosynthetic adjustments in warming experiments: photosynthesis as measured at the high growth temperature, the growth temperature, and the thermal optimum; the photosynthetic thermal optimum; and leaf-level photosynthetic capacity. Adjustments of any one of these variables need not mean a concurrent adjustment in others, which may resolve apparently contradictory results in papers using different indicators of photosynthetic acclimation. We argue that photosynthetic thermal acclimation (i.e., that benefits a plant in its new growth environment) should include adjustments of both the photosynthetic thermal optimum (T opt) and photosynthetic rates at the growth temperature (A growth), a combination termed constructive adjustment. However, many species show reduced photosynthesis when grown at elevated temperatures, despite adjustment of some photosynthetic variables, a phenomenon we term detractive adjustment. An analysis of 70 studies on 103 species shows that adjustment of T opt and A growth are more common than adjustment of other photosynthetic variables, but only half of the data demonstrate constructive adjustment. No systematic differences in these patterns were found between different plant functional groups. We also discuss the importance of thermal acclimation of respiration for net photosynthesis measurements, as respiratory temperature acclimation can generate apparent acclimation of photosynthetic processes, even if photosynthesis is unaltered. We show that while dark respiration is often used to estimate light respiration, the ratio of light to dark respiration shifts in a non-predictable manner with a change in leaf temperature.
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