<?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%">Faria, T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garcia-Plazaola, J I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abadía, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cerasoli, S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pereira, J S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chaves, M M</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Diurnal changes in photoprotective mechanisms in leaves of cork oak (Quercus suber) during summer</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%">antioxidants</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photoinhibition</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photosynthesis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stomatal conductance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">xanthophylls</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">115-123</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daily variations in photoprotective mechanisms were studied in sun and shade leaves of 40-year-old cork oak (Quercus suber L.) trees during early summer in Portugal. Although trees were not severely water stressed because predawn leaf water potentials remained high, photosynthesis and stomatal conductance decreased at midday. The midday depression in gas exchange was not reversed by short-term exposure to “optimal” conditions of temperature, light and vapor pressure deficit. Chlorophyll a fluorescence, maximum photochemical yield of photosystem II and the quantum yield of noncyclic electron transport showed midday depressions, but recovered by the evening. Both short-term changes in the components of the xanthophyll cycle (reversible de-epoxidation of violaxanthin during the day) as well as long-term changes (higher xanthophyll content in sun compared with shade leaves) were detected and may play a role in the dissipation of excess energy at midday. Because the activities of enzymes of the antioxidant system, superoxide dismutase and ascorbate peroxidase, were high enough to cope with the increase in oxygen reactive species likely to arise under the stressful conditions of midday, we conclude that these enzymes may provide an additional mechanism for energy dissipation.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1093/treephys/16.1-2.115</style></notes><research-notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1093/treephys/16.1-2.115</style></research-notes></record></records></xml>