Extreme undersaturation in the intercellular airspace of leaves: a failure of Gaastra or Ohm?

Autor: Rockwell FE; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Holbrook NM; Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Jain P; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA., Huber AE; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA., Sen S; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA., Stroock AD; School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annals of botany [Ann Bot] 2022 Sep 19; Vol. 130 (3), pp. 301-316.
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcac094
Abstrakt: Background: Recent reports of extreme levels of undersaturation in internal leaf air spaces have called into question one of the foundational assumptions of leaf gas exchange analysis, that leaf air spaces are effectively saturated with water vapour at leaf surface temperature. Historically, inferring the biophysical states controlling assimilation and transpiration from the fluxes directly measured by gas exchange systems has presented a number of challenges, including: (1) a mismatch in scales between the area of flux measurement, the biochemical cellular scale and the meso-scale introduced by the localization of the fluxes to stomatal pores; (2) the inaccessibility of the internal states of CO2 and water vapour required to define conductances; and (3) uncertainties about the pathways these internal fluxes travel. In response, plant physiologists have adopted a set of simplifying assumptions that define phenomenological concepts such as stomatal and mesophyll conductances.
Scope: Investigators have long been concerned that a failure of basic assumptions could be distorting our understanding of these phenomenological conductances, and the biophysical states inside leaves. Here we review these assumptions and historical efforts to test them. We then explore whether artefacts in analysis arising from the averaging of fluxes over macroscopic leaf areas could provide alternative explanations for some part, if not all, of reported extreme states of undersaturation.
Conclusions: Spatial heterogeneities can, in some cases, create the appearance of undersaturation in the internal air spaces of leaves. Further refinement of experimental approaches will be required to separate undersaturation from the effects of spatial variations in fluxes or conductances. Novel combinations of current and emerging technologies hold promise for meeting this challenge.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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