Effects of short-term low temperature stress on chlorophyll fluorescence transients in Antarctic lichen species
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Czech Polar Reports |
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| Web | free download of pdf file |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CPR2016-1-6 |
| Field | Botany |
| Keywords | photosynthetic processes; polyphasic kinetics; chlorophyll fluorescence parameters; James Ross Island; Galindez Island |
| Description | Chlorophyll fluorescence is an effective tool for investigating characteristics of any photosynthesizing organisms and its responses due to different stressors. Here, we have studied a short-term temperature response on two Antarctic green algal lichen species: Umbilicaria antarctica, and Physconia muscigena. We measured slow chlorophyll fluorescence transients in the species during slow a cooling of thallus temperature from 20°C to 5°C with a 10 min. acclimation at each temperature in dark. The measurements were supplemented with saturation pulses for the analysis of chlorophyll fluorescence parameters: maximum yield of PS II photochemistry (FV/FM), effective quantum yield of PS II photochemistry (PhiPSII) and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). In response to decreasing thallus temperature, we observed species-specific changes in chlorophyll fluorescence levels P, S, M, T reached during chlorophyll fluorescence transient as well as in the shape of the chlorophyll fluorescence transients. |
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