Functional constraints of CAM leaf anatomy: Tight cell packing is associated with increased CAM function across a gradient of CAM expression

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1841-1850

  Nelson, Elizabeth A ^a   Sage, Rowan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crassulacean acid metabolism; Evolution; Leaf anatomy; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANGIOSPERM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

ANGIOSPERMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES;

CRASSULACEAE;

EID: 44649140589     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erm346     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (35)

1. Borland AM, Griffiths H. 1996. Variations in the phases of crassulacean acid metabolism and regulation of carboxylation patterns determined by carbon-isotope-discrimination techniques. In: Winter K, Smith JAC, eds. Crassulacean acid metabolism: biochemistry, ecophysiology and evolution. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 230-249.
2. Borland AM, Tecsi LI, Leegood RC, Walker RP. 1998. Inducibility of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in Clusia species: physiological/biochemical characterization and intercellular localization of carboxylation and decarboxylation processes in three species which exhibit different degrees of CAM. Planta 205, 342-351.
3. Borland AM, Maxwell K, Griffiths H. 2000. Ecophysiology of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism. In: Leegood RC, Sharkey TD, von Caemmerer S, eds. Photosynthesis: physiology and metabolism. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 583-605.
4. Cockburn W, Ting IP, Sternberg LO. 1979. Relationships between stomatal behavior and internal carbon-dioxide concentration in Crassulacean acid metabolism plants. Plant Physiology 63, 1029-1032.
5. Cushman JC, Borland AM. 2002. Induction of Crassulacean acid metabolism by water limitation. Plant, Cell and Environment 25, 295-310.
6. 2 in higher plant leaves. In: Leegood RC, Sharkey TD, von Caemmerer S, eds. Photosynthesis: physiology and metabolism. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 321-351.
7. Evans JR, von Caemmerer S. 1996. Carbon dioxide fixation in leaves. Plant Physiology 110, 339-346.
8. 2 output by CAM plants in the light: the role of leaf conductance. Physiologia Plantarum 68, 353-358.
9. Gibson AC. 1982. The anatomy of succulence. In: Ting IP, Gibbs M, eds. Crassulacean acid metabolism. Rockville, MD: American Society of Plant Physiologists, 1-30.
10. Gillon JS, Borland AM, Harwood KG, Roberts A, Broadmeadow MSJ, Griffiths H. 1998. Carbon isotope discrimination in terrestrial plants: carboxylations and decarboxylations. In: Griffiths H, ed. Stable isotopes: integration of biological, ecological and geochemical processes. Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers, 111-131.
11. Griffiths H. 1989. Carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms and the evolution of CAM in vascular epiphytes. In: Luettge U, ed. Vascular plants as epiphytes. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 42-86.
12. Griffiths H, Cousins AB, Badger MR, von Caemmerer S. 2007. Discrimination in the dark. Resolving the interplay between metabolic and physical constraints to phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity during the crassulacean acid metabolism cycle. Plant Physiology 143, 1055-1067.
13. Griffiths H, Helliker B, Roberts A, Haslam RP, Girnus J, Robe WE, Borland AM, Maxwell K. 2002. Regulation of Rubisco activity in crassulacean acid metabolism plants: better late than never. Functional Plant Biology 29, 689-696.
14. Guralnick LJ, Jackson MD. 2001. The occurrence and phylogenetics of Crassulacean acid metabolism in the Portulacaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162, 257-262.
15. Helliker BR, Martin CE. 1997. Comparative water-use efficiencies of three species of Peperomia (Piperaceae) having different photosynthetic pathways. Journal of Plant Physiology 150, 259-263.
16. 3 and crassulacean acid metabolism epiphytic bromeliads. Functional Plant Biology 29, 679-687.
17. 3 and CAM plants. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 25, 45-52.
18. Maxwell K, Borland AM, Haslam RP, Helliker BR, Roberts A, Griffiths H. 1999. Modulation of Rubisco activity during the diurnal phases of the Crassulacean acid metabolism plant Kalanchoë daigremontiana. Plant Physiology 121, 849-856.
19. 2 diffusion a consequence of succulence in plants with crassulacean acid metabolism? Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 24, 777-786.
20. Nelson EA, Sage TL, Sage RF. 2005. Functional leaf anatomy of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism. Functional Plant Biology 32, 409-419.
21. Nobel PS. 1996. High productivity of certain agronomic CAM species. In: Winter K, Smith JAC, eds. Crassulacean acid metabolism: biochemistry, ecophysiology and evolution. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 255-265.
22. Osmond CB, Maxwell K, Popp M, Robinson S. 1999. On being thick: fathoming apparently futile pathways of photosynthesis and carbohydrate metabolism in succulent CAM plants. In: Burrel M, Bryant J, Kruger N, eds. Carbohydrate metabolism in plants. Oxford: BIOS Scientific Publishers, 183-200.
23. Roberts A, Borland AM, Griffiths H. 1997. Discrimination processes and shifts in carboxylation during the phases of crassulacean acid metabolism. Plant Physiology 113, 1283-1292.
24. Robinson SA, Osmond CB, Giles L. 1993. Interpretations of gradients in delta-C-13 value in thick photosynthetic tissues of plants with Crassulacean acid metabolism. Planta 190, 271-276.
25. Sayed OH. 2001. Crassulacean acid metabolism 1975-2000, a check list. Photosynthetica 39, 339-352.
26. Silvera K, Santiago LS, Winter K. 2005. Distribution of crassulacean acid metabolism in orchids of Panama: evidence of selection for weak and strong modes. Functional Plant Biology 32, 397-497.
27. Skillman JB, Winter K. 1997. High photosynthetic capacity in a shade-tolerant crassulacean acid metabolism plant: implications for sunfleck use, nonphotochemical energy dissipation, and susceptibility to photoinhibition. Plant Physiology 113, 441-450.
28. Smith JAC, Heuer S. 1981. Determination of the volume of intercellular spaces in leaves and some values for CAM plants. Annals of Botany 48, 915-917.
29. Smith JAC, Winter K. 1996. Taxonomic distribution of crassulacean acid metabolism. In: Winter K, Smith JAC, eds. Crassulacean acid metabolism: biochemistry, ecophysiology and evolution. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 427-436.
30. Smith JAC, Ingram J, Tsiantis MS, Barkla BJ, Bartholomew DM, Bettey M, Pantoja O, Pennington AJ. 1996. Transport across the vacuolar membrane in CAM plants. In: Winter K, Smith JAC, eds. Crassulacean acid metabolism: biochemistry, ecophysiology and evolution. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 53-71.
31. 2 concentrations in Sedum prealtum. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 6, 557-567.
32. Teeri JA, Tonsor SJ, Turner M. 1981. Leaf thickness and carbon isotope composition in the Crassulaceae. Oecologia 50, 367-369.
33. 2 fixed during day and night? Plant Physiology 129, 1843-1851.
34. Winter K, Smith JAC. 1996. An introduction to crassulacean acid metabolism: biochemical principles and ecological diversity. In: Winter K, Smith JAC, eds. Crassulacean acid metabolism: biochemistry, ecophysiology and evolution. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1-10.
35. Winter K, Wallace BJ, Stocker GC, Roksandic Z. 1983. Crassulacean acid metabolism in Australian vascular epiphytes and some related species. Oecologia 57, 129-141.