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Efficiency of Carbon Assimilation
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Black, Clanton C. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | Photosynthesis is our primary process for assimilating net quantities of $CO_{2}$ for utilization by all biological organisms and, within the last two decades, our understanding of photosynthesis has expanded remarkably. Our expanded understanding currently includes such features of photosynthesis as its diversity: in carbon biochemistry; in responses to environment; in absolute efficiency of utilizing light; in physiology; in plant dry matter production; and in efficiency of water and nitrogen utilization. These new understandings of plants have world-wide implications and applications in ecology and in agriculture. Similar work and new understandings exist and are accumulating for photosynthetic bacteria and algae; however, this chapter will emphasize these new understandings and applications with higher plants due to their world-wide agricultural importance. We will use the word efficiency in a functional manner to describe the effectiveness of plants in advantageously using photosynthesis in producing a product such as seeds or in utilizing a resource such as $CO_{2}$ or water or soil nitrogen. Though we will present and discuss such features as the biochemistry of photosynthetic $CO_{2}$ metabolism or environmental physiology separately, readers will soon realize that a specific crop or species integrates these features in a unique fashion with advantageous consequences for the plant. Thus, each crop of interest to a breeder will have some unique features influencing its efficiency which should be understood and integrated into the breeder's plant improvement work. Book Name: Biochemical Basis of Plant Breeding: Volume I Carbon Metabolism |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2019-0-99054-5&isbn=9780429291432&doi=10.1201/9780429291432-6&format=pdf |
| Ending Page | 88 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 73 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9780429291432-6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2019-07-17 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Biochemical Basis of Plant Breeding: Volume I Carbon Metabolism Plant Sciences Nitrogen Physiology Plants Diversity Functional Assimilation Breeder Expanded |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
