Mesophyll cells of C4 plants have fewer chloroplasts than those of closely related C3 plants

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2587-2600

  Stata, Matt ^a   Sage, Tammy L ^a   Rennie, Troy D ^a   Khoshravesh, Roxana ^a   Sultmanis, Stefanie ^a   Khaikin, Yannay ^a   Ludwig, Martha ^b   Sage, Rowan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

C3 C4 intermediate; C4 evolution; C4 photosynthesis; Kranz anatomy; Mesophyll conductance

Indexed keywords

ANION; C4 PLANT; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

CARBON;

ANGIOSPERM; CELL SEPARATION; CHLOROPLAST; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MESOPHYLL CELL; METABOLISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON; CELL SEPARATION; CHLOROPLASTS; MESOPHYLL CELLS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84931825849     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12331     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Ackerly D.D. (1999) Comparative plant ecology and the role of phylogenetic information. In Physiological Plant Ecology (eds M.C. Press, J.D. Scholes & M.G. Barker ), pp. 391-413. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
2. 4 pathway. Plant Physiology 164, 466-480.
3. Black C.C. & Mollenhauer H.H. (1971) Structure and distribution of chloroplasts and other organelles in leaves with various rates of photosynthesis. Plant Physiology 47, 15-23.
4. 4 photosynthesis. Plant Physiology 91, 1543-1550.
5. 2. Plant, Cell & Environment 36, 200-212.
6. 4 intermediates. Planta 178, 463-474.
7. von Caemmerer S. (2000) Biochemical Models of Leaf Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic., Australia.
8. von Caemmerer S. (2013) Steady-state models of photosynthesis. Plant Cell & Environment 36, 1617-1630.
9. 4 rice: current progress and future challenges. Science 336, 1671-1672.
10. 4 intermediate forms of photosynthesis in Molluginaceae. Evolution 65, 643-660.
11. Christin P.-A., Wallace M.J., Clayton H., Edwards E.J., Furbank R.T., Hattersley P.W., ... Ludwig M. (2012) Multiple transitions, polyploidy, and lateral gene transfer in the grass subtribe Neurachninae. Journal of Experimental Botany 63, 6297-6308.
12. 4 photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110, 1381-1386.
13. 4 photosynthesis in Chenopodiaceae species. The Plant Cell 18, 2207-2223.
14. 4 Plant Biology (eds R.F. Sage & R.K. Monson ), pp. 133-172. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA.
15. Douglas N.A. & Manos P.S. (2007) Molecular phylogeny of Nyctaginaceae: taxonomy, biogeography, and characters associated with radiation of xerophytic genera in North America. American Journal of Botany 94, 856-872.
16. 4 grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, 2532-2537.
17. 2 Concentrating Mechanisms (eds A.S. Raghavendra & R.F. Sage ), pp. 29-61. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
18. Evans J.R. & von Caemmerer S. (1996) Carbon dioxide diffusion inside leaves. Plant Physiology 110, 339-346.
19. Evans J.R. & von Caemmerer S. (2013) Temperature response of carbon isotope discrimination and mesophyll conductance in tobacco. Plant, Cell & Environment 36, 745-756.
20. 2 in higher plant leaves. In Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism (eds R.C. Leegood, T.D. Sharkey & S. von Caemmerer ), pp. 321-351. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
21. 4 Rice (eds J.E. Sheehy, P.L. Mitchell & B. Hardy ), pp. 127-143. International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines.
22. 2 diffusion pathway inside leaves. Journal of Experimental Botany 60, 2235-2248.
23. 4 in Cleome (Cleomeaceae). Systematic Botany 35, 811-826.
24. 2-photorespiration. Planta 96, 152-174.
25. 4 acid decarboxylation types? Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 3103-3108.
26. 4 photosynthesis: mechanisms and regulation. In Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism. Advances in Photosynthesis (eds R.C. Leegood, T.D. Sharkey & S. von Caemmerer ), pp. 435-457. Kluwer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
27. 4 Alternanthera. Planta 223, 359-368.
28. Grace P.J., Scoffoni C. & Sack L. (2013) Allometry of cells and tissues within leaves. American Journal of Botany 100, 1936-1948.
29. 4 origins. New Phytologist 193, 304-312.
30. Hassan N.S., Thiede J. & Liede-Schumann S. (2003) Phylogenetic analysis of Sesuvioideae (Aizoaceae) inferred from nrDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences and morphological data. Plant Systematics and Evolution 255, 121-143.
31. 4 photosynthesis. American Journal of Botany 97, 1664-1687.
32. 4 Plant Biology (eds R.F. Sage & R.K. Monson ), pp. 321-351. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA.
33. 4 Plant Biology (eds R.F. Sage & R.K. Monson ), pp. 411-444. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, USA.
34. Kubinova Z., Janáček J., Lhotáková Z., Kubínová L. & Albrechtová J. (2014) Unbiased estimation of chloroplast number in mesophyll cells: advantage of a genuine three-dimensional approach. Journal of Experimental Botany 65, 605-620.
35. 4 plants. In Photosynthesis and Photorespiration (eds M.D. Hatch, C.B. Osmond & R.O. Slatyer ), pp. 323-349. Wiley-Interscience, New York, NY, USA.
36. 4 photosynthesis. In Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism. Advances in Photosynthesis (eds R.C. Leegood, T.D. Sharkey & S. von Caemmerer ), pp. 459-469. Kluwer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
37. 3 plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 53, 581-590.
38. 4 dicotyledon Atriplex rosea. Canadian Journal of Botany 72, 644-677.
39. 4 monocots in response to blue light and abscisic acid. Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 3213-3221.
40. 4 vein pattern in Flaveria (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany 94, 382-399.
41. 4 photosynthesis. The Plant Journal 51, 886-896.
42. 4 intermediate plants. In Photosynthesis: Physiology and Metabolism. Advances in Photosynthesis (eds R.C. Leegood, T.D. Sharkey & S. von Caemmerer ), pp. 533-550. Kluwer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
43. Morgan J.A. & Brown R.H. (1979) Photosynthesis in grass species differing in carbon-dioxide fixation pathways. 2. Search for species with intermediate gas-exchange and anatomical characteristics. Plant Physiology 64, 257-262.
44. 4 eudicots. American Journal of Botany 94, 362-381.
45. 4 intermediate species in the genus Heliotropium L. (Boraginaceae): anatomy, ultrastructure and enzyme activity. Plant, Cell & Environment 34, 1723-1736.
46. O'Brien T.P. & McCully M.E. (1981) The Study of Plant Structure: Principles and Selected Methods, Termarcarphi, PTY., Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
47. Oguchi R., Hikosaka K. & Hirise T. (2005) Leaf anatomy as a constraint for photosynthetic acclimation I. differential responses in leaf anatomy to increasing growth irradiance among three deciduous trees. Plant, Cell & Environment 28, 916-927.
48. Osteryoung K.W., Stokes K.D., Rutherford S.M., Percival A.L. & Lee W.Y. (1998) Chloroplast division in higher plants requires members of two functionally divergent FtsZ gene families. The Plant Cell 10, 1991-2004.
49. 4 phtosynthesis in Bienertia sinuspersici. Planta 229, 369-382.
50. 4 intermediate photosynthesis: linking physiology to gene expression. The Plant Journal 2, 267-274.
51. 4 species Bienertia sinuspersici. BMC Plant Biology 14, 34.
52. 4 photosynthesis in Amaranthaceae sensu stricto. American Journal of Botany 94, 1992-2003.
53. 4 lineages of planet Earth. Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 3155-3169.
54. 4 photosynthesis. Annual Review of Plant Biology 63, 19-47.
55. 4 photosynthesis into rice. Plant and Cell Physiology 50, 756-772.
56. Sage T.L. & Williams E.G. (1995) Structure, ultrastructure, and histochemistry of the pollen - tube pathway in the milkweed Asclepias exaltata L. Sexual Plant Reproduction 8, 257-265.
57. 2 photosynthesis in Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce (Euphorbiaceae). Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 3183-3195.
58. 4 intermediate species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 169, 493-517.
59. Scafaro A.P., von Caemmerer S., Evans J.R. & Atwell B.J. (2011) Temperature response of mesophyll conductance in cultivated and wild Oryza species with contrasting mesophyll cell wall thickness. Plant, Cell & Environment 34, 1999-2008.
60. Sharkey T.D., Vassey T.L., Vandeveer P.J. & Vierstra R.D. (1991) Carbon metabolism enzymes and photosynthesis in transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) having excess phytochrome. Planta 185, 287-296.
61. 2 diffusion through the mesophyll of hypostomatous leaves. Plant, Cell & Environment 18, 149-157.
62. Terashima I., Hanba Y.T., Tholen D. & Niinemets U. (2011) Leaf functional anatomy in relation to photosynthesis. Plant Physiology 155, 108-116.
63. 2 diffusion in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Plant, Cell & Environment 31, 1688-1700.
64. Tholen D., Ethier G., Genty B., Pepin S. & Zhu X.-G. (2012) Variable mesophyll conductance revisited: theoretical background and implications. Plant, Cell & Environment 24, 2087-2103.
65. 2 isotope discrimination. Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 3119-3134.
66. 4 photosynthesis under low light conditions in Zea mays, Miscanthus×giganteus and Flaveria bidentis. Plant, Cell & Environment 36, 365-381.
67. 4 pathways in the photosynthetic cells of an amphibious sedge, Eleocharis vivipara. Planta 199, 394-403.
68. 4 plants, with particular reference to pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase. Journal of Experimental Botany 49, 1637-1646.
69. 4 dicot Amaranthus viridis. Journal of Experimental Botany 52, 1003-1013.
70. 4 Alloteropsis semialata subspecies. Plant, Cell & Environment 29, 257-268.
71. 4 species possessing different Kranz anatomical types in the Cyperaceae. Botanical Magazine of Tokyo 101, 141-152.
72. 4 intermediate traits in Heliotropium L. (Boraginaceae): gas exchange perspectives. Plant, Cell & Environment 30, 1337-1345.
73. 4 syndrome during leaf development in Bienertia cycloptera (Chenopodiaceae). American Journal of Botany 91, 1784-1795.
74. 4 leaf anatomy. Annals of Botany 98, 77-91.
75. Voznesenskaya E.V., Koteyeva N.K., Chuong S.D.X., Ivanova A.N., Barroca J., Craven L.A. & Edwards G.E. (2007) Physiological, anatomical and biochemical characterization of photosynthetic types in genus Cleome (Cleomaceae). Functional Plant Biology 34, 247-267.
76. 4 grass Arundinella hirta. Planta 223, 1243-1255.
77. 4 mesophyll chloroplasts in response to environmental stresses. Plant and Cell Physiology 50, 1736-1749.
78. 4 lineage. American Journal of Botany 98, 1486-1503.
79. 4 photosynthesis model and combined gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence measurements to estimate bundle-sheath conductance of maize leaves differing in age and nitrogen content. Plant, Cell & Environment 34, 2183-2199.