<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fleck, I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hogan, K P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Llorens, L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abadía, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aranda, X</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosynthesis and photoprotection in Quercus ilex resprouts after fire</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tree Physiology</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">chlorophyll fluorescence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gas exchange</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Holm oak</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photoinhibition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosystem II</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">zeaxanthin</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">607-614</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Plants that resprout after fires often have higher rates of photosynthesis than before a fire. To elucidate the mechanism of this response, we studied gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence in Quercus ilex L. plants growing on control (unburned) sites and on sites that had been burned the preceding summer. In early July, photosynthetic rates and stomatal conductance were similar in plants on unburned and burned plots, and in young and old foliage within unburned plots. At this time, photochemical efficiency of photosystem II (PSII), nonphotochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence (NPQ), and the de-epoxidation of violaxanthin to zeaxanthin were also similar among leaves of different ages and treatments. In late July, photosynthetic rates and stomatal conductances were much greater in resprouts on the burned areas than in unburned plants. From early to late July, unburned plants showed an increase in NPQ and the de-epoxidation of violaxanthin to zeaxanthin, indicating increased photoprotection as a result of enhanced nonradiative dissipation of excess light energy. Plants on the burned plots did not show these changes. Leaves of all ages and treatments showed no substantial reduction in potential quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm) at midday or predawn, indicating that there was little or no photoinhibition. Leaf nitrogen and soluble protein contents varied with leaf age during July, but did not vary between treatments. We conclude that the primary effect of burning is an increase in water availability to resprouting plants that eliminates the need for photoprotection, at least in the short term. The decrease in photosynthetic rates of unburned leaves in late July was the result of reduced stomatal conductance. We suggest that lowered stomatal conductance is the primary limiting factor in Q. ilex leaves, governing the regulation of carboxylation activity and energy dissipation processes.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1093/treephys/18.8-9.607</style></notes><research-notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1093/treephys/18.8-9.607</style></research-notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Figueroa, M E</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chlorophyll fluorescence, stress and survival in populations of Mediterranean grassland species</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Vegetation Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Drought</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fv/Fm</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mortality</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photo-inhibition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photochemical efficiency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosystem II</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">881-888</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosynthetic stress in response to a natural episode of frost and seasonal drought was assessed in a ‘dehesa’ grassland of SW Spain with a portable fluorimeter. Chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics of dark-adapted leaves of 11 abundant species of Mediterranean grassland were measured over the course of a growing season from November 1992 to July 1993. Concomitant changes in population size were estimated from censuses of permanent quadrats. There was a general decline in the photochemical efficiency (F v /Fm ) during the growing season and this was particularly evident late in the growing season (spring and early summer) when ambient temperatures were increasing rapidly and rainfall was low; it coincided with the period of most intense mortality for most species. A frost in early March (– 5 °C), when photosynthetically active radiation was relatively high, resulted in a small decrease in F v /Fm that was consistent across many species. The mechanisms of protection in species of Mediterranean grassland appear to be sufficiently effective to avoid damage to PSII for most of the year. For most species there was little evidence of photosystem II damage, as initial fluorescence (F 0 ) usually did not increase. Many of the effects observed were due to a reduction in Fm and thus were consistent with non-photochemical quenching. This could be adaptive in protecting PSII from damage in species that show little evidence of stress. The sharp increase in stress toward the end of the life cycle coincided with the fall in net population size.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Figueroa, M. E.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chlorophyll fluorescence, stress and survival in populations of Mediterranean grassland species</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Vegetation Science</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Drought</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fv/Fm</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mortality</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photo-inhibition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photochemical efficiency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosystem II</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/3237033/full</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">881 - 888</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosynthetic stress in response to a natural episode of frost and seasonal drought was assessed in a ‘dehesa’ grassland of SW Spain with a portable fluorimeter. Chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics of dark-adapted leaves of 11 abundant species of Mediterranean grassland were measured over the course of a growing season from November 1992 to July 1993. Concomitant changes in population size were estimated from censuses of permanent quadrats. There was a general decline in the photochemical efficiency (F v /Fm ) during the growing season and this was particularly evident late in the growing season (spring and early summer) when ambient temperatures were increasing rapidly and rainfall was low; it coincided with the period of most intense mortality for most species. A frost in early March (– 5 °C), when photosynthetically active radiation was relatively high, resulted in a small decrease in F v /Fm that was consistent across many species. The mechanisms of protection in species of Mediterranean grassland appear to be sufficiently effective to avoid damage to PSII for most of the year. For most species there was little evidence of photosystem II damage, as initial fluorescence (F 0 ) usually did not increase. Many of the effects observed were due to a reduction in Fm and thus were consistent with non-photochemical quenching. This could be adaptive in protecting PSII from damage in species that show little evidence of stress. The sharp increase in stress toward the end of the life cycle coincided with the fall in net population size.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Méthy, M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Damesin, C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rambal, S</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Drought and photosystem II activity in two Mediterranean oaks</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ann. For. Sci.</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fluorescence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photoinhibition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photosystem II</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">water stress</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">53</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">255-262</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The responses of photosystem II (PS II) to drought were analysed on two Mediterranean oak species, Quercus ilex and Q pubescens, using the chlorophyll fluorescence pulse-amplitude-modulation technique. The maximal PS II photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm) of the evergreen Q ilex and the deciduous Q pubescens oaks was only affected when leaf predawn water potential was lower than -4 MPa. This value is rarely observed on mature trees growing in the field, but can be undergone by young seedlings during drought periods, hence confirming the stability of PS II. Whatever the irradiance, drought resulted, in both species, in lower values of PS II photochemical efficiency in a light-adapted state (ΔF/F m'), due to stomatal closure and/or a direct inhibition of the dark reactions of photosynthesis. Diurnal decreases of Fv/Fm of 30 min dark-adapted leaves were greater for lower predawn water potential; a recovery was observed in the late afternoon. The reversible decreases in the diurnal time-courses of maximal fluorescence led us to assume the onset of protective mechanisms from permanent photodamages in Q ilex and, to a lesser extent, in Q pubescens.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>