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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2020, Vol. 19 Issue (9): 2188-2205    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(19)62796-6
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Quantifying key model parameters for wheat leaf gas exchange under different environmental conditions
ZHAO Fu-nian1, 2, 3, ZHOU Shuang-xi4, WANG Run-yuan3, ZHANG Kai3, WANG He-ling3, YU Qiang1, 2, 5, 6  
1 Key Laboratory of Water Cycle & Related Land Surface Processes/Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P.R.China
2 College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P.R.China
3 Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Disaster Reduction of Gansu Province/Key Laboratory of Arid Climate Change and Disaster Reduction of China Meteorological Administration (CMA)/Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology, CMA, Lanzhou 730020, P.R.China
4 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Hawke’s Bay 4130, New Zealand
5 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau/Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, P.R.China
6 School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2000, Australia
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Abstract  
The maximum carboxylation rate of Rubisco (Vcmax) and maximum rate of electron transport (Jmax) for the biochemical photosynthetic model, and the slope (m) of the Ball-Berry stomatal conductance model influence gas exchange estimates between plants and the atmosphere.  However, there is limited data on the variation of these three parameters for annual crops under different environmental conditions.  Gas exchange measurements of light and CO2 response curves on leaves of winter wheat and spring wheat were conducted during the wheat growing season under different environmental conditions.  There were no significant differences for Vcmax, Jmax or m between the two wheat types.  The seasonal variation of Vcmax, Jmax and m for spring wheat was not pronounced, except a rapid decrease for Vcmax and Jmax at the end of growing season.  Vcmax and Jmax show no significant changes during soil drying until light saturated stomatal conductance (gssat) was smaller than 0.15 mol m–2 s–1.  Meanwhile, there was a significant difference in m during two different water supply conditions separated  by gssat at 0.15 mol m–2 s–1.  Furthermore, the misestimation of Vcmax and Jmax had great impacts on the net photosynthesis rate simulation, whereas, the underestimation of m resulted in underestimated stomatal conductance and transpiration rate and an overestimation of water use efficiency.  Our work demonstrates that the impact of severe environmental conditions and specific growing stages on the variation of key model parameters should be taken into account for simulating gas exchange between plants and the atmosphere.  Meanwhile, modification of m and Vcmax (and Jmax) successively based on water stress severity might be adopted to simulate gas exchange between plants and the atmosphere under drought.
Keywords:  biochemical photosynthetic model        stomatal conductance model        maximum carboxylation rate of Rubisco        maximum rate of electron transport        drought
  
Received: 08 April 2019   Accepted:
Fund: This research was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41375019, 41730645, and 41275118) and the China Special Fund for Meteorological Research in the Public Interest (Major projects) (GYHY201506001-2).
Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence YU Qiang, E-mail: yuq@igsnrr.ac.cn   
About author:  ZHAO Fu-nian, E-mail: zhaofn@iamcma.cn;

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ZHAO Fu-nian, ZHOU Shuang-xi, WANG Run-yuan, ZHANG Kai, WANG He-ling, YU Qiang. 2020. Quantifying key model parameters for wheat leaf gas exchange under different environmental conditions. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 19(9): 2188-2205.

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