ReviewPlant physiology2018
The Impacts of Fluctuating Light on Crop Performance.
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- Phenotypic Plasticity Beyond Domestication: Trait- and Accession-Dependent Responses to Light inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Using ΦPSII and leaf temperature as indicators of non-steady-state photosynthesis and stomatal conductance during stepwise changes in light intensity.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Article
- Harnessing natural variation for photosynthetic improvement in next-generation crop breeding.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026Review
- Improving tolerance to fluctuating light through adaptive laboratory evolution in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis.Nature communications · 2026Article
- When wuthering winds create fluttering fields: structural and biomechanical properties determine canopy light fluctuation properties of 10 wheat cultivars.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Was the evolution of faster stomata driven by increased gas exchange rates rather than increasing water use efficiency?The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Genome-wide association analysis to identify QTLs and candidate genes associated with grain yield and its related traits under low light conditions in rice (Oryza sativa L.).The plant genome · 2026Article
- Contrasting photosynthetic, stomatal, and mesophyll mechanisms drive common reductions in leaf water-use efficiency under blue light.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Article
- Sub-optimal temperature leads to tighter coupling between photosynthetic electron transport and CO2 assimilation under fluctuating light in maize.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Metabolite profiling reveals slow and uncoordinated adjustment of C4 photosynthesis to sudden changes in irradiance.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- Multi-omics analysis reveals distinct responses to light stress in photosynthesis and primary metabolism between maize and rice.Plant communications · 2025Article
- Scion, Rootstock and Their Interaction Affect the Photosynthesis of Citrus.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Chloroplast acetyltransferase GNAT2 acts as a redox-regulated switch for state transitions in tomato.Molecular horticulture · 2025Article
- Photosynthetic responses to light levels in drought-tolerant novel peanut (Arachis hypogaea L) genotypes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Entropy is an important design principle in the photosystem II supercomplex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The Kinetics of Mesophyll Conductance and Photorespiration During Light Induction.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Adapting CProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Making the most of canopy light: shade avoidance under a fluctuating spectrum and irradiance.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- The adaptability of soybean photosynthesis to midday high-light duration through CEF-NPQ coupling regulation.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Photosynthesis and photoprotection in top leaves respond faster to irradiance fluctuations than bottom leaves in a tomato canopy.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
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Abstract
Rapidly changing light conditions can reduce carbon gain and productivity in field crops because photosynthetic responses to light fluctuations are not instantaneous. Plant responses to fluctuating light occur across levels of organizational complexity from entire canopies to the biochemistry of a single reaction and across orders of magnitude of time. Although light availability and variation at the top of the canopy are largely dependent on the solar angle and degree of cloudiness, lower crop canopies rely more heavily on light in the form of sunflecks, the quantity of which depends mostly on canopy structure but also may be affected by wind. The ability of leaf photosynthesis to respond rapidly to these variations in light intensity is restricted by the relatively slow opening/closing of stomata, activation/deactivation of C
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