The balance between RuBP carboxylation and RuBP regeneration: a mechanism underlying the interspecific variation in acclimation of photosynthesis to seasonal change in temperature
Yusuke Onoda A B D , Kouki Hikosaka A and Tadaki Hirose A CA Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, 980-8578 Japan.
B Current address: Department of Plant Ecology, Utrecht University, PO Box 800.84 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
C Department of International Agriculture Development, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Sakuragaoka 1-1-1, Setagaya, Tokyo, 156-8502 Japan.
D Corresponding author. Email: Y.Onoda@bio.uu.nl
Functional Plant Biology 32(10) 903-910 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP05024
Submitted: 31 January 2005 Accepted: 20 May 2005 Published: 5 October 2005
Abstract
The ratio of the capacities of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) regeneration to RuBP carboxylation (Jmax / Vcmax) (measured at a common temperature) increases in some species when they are grown at lower temperatures, but does not increase in other species. To investigate the mechanism of interspecific difference in the response of Jmax / Vcmax to growth temperature, we analysed the temperature dependence of Vcmax and Jmax in Polygonum cuspidatum and Fagus crenata with the Arrhenius function. P. cuspidatum had a higher ratio of Jmax / Vcmax in spring and autumn than in summer, while F. crenata did not show such change. The two species had a similar activation energy for Vcmax (EaV) across seasons, but P. cuspidatum had a higher activation energy for Jmax (EaJ) than F. crenata. Reconstruction of the temperature response curve of photosynthesis showed that plants with an inherently higher EaJ / EaV (P. cuspidatum) had photosynthetic rates that were limited by RuBP regeneration at low temperatures and limited by RuBP carboxylation at high temperatures, while plants with an inherently lower EaJ / EaV (F. crenata) had photosynthetic rates that were limited solely by RuBP carboxylation over the range of temperatures. These results indicate that the increase in Jmax / Vcmax at low growth temperatures relieved the limitation of RuBP regeneration on the photosynthetic rate in P. cuspidatum, but that such change in Jmax / Vcmax would not improve the photosynthetic rate in F. crenata. We suggest that whether or not the Jmax / Vcmax ratio changes with growth temperature is attributable to interspecific differences in EaJ / EaV between species.
Keywords: activation energy, interspecific variation, Jmax, temperature acclimation, Vcmax.
Acknowledgments
We thank Ken-ichi Sato, Toshihiko Kinugasa, Yuko Yasumura and Borjigidai Almaz for help in growing plants, and Onno Muller for comments on the draft manuscript. This study was partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for from JSPS for Young Research Fellows (YO), and from Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for KH and TH.
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