JXB Advance Access originally published online on June 27, 2005
Journal of Experimental Botany 2005 56(418):2139-2151; doi:10.1093/jxb/eri214
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Published by Oxford University Press [2005] on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology.
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The role of ozone flux and antioxidants in the suppression of ozone injury by elevated CO2 in soybean
US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plant Science Research Unit, and Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, 3908 Inwood Road, Raleigh, NC 27603, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Fax: +1 919 515 3593. E-mail: fbooker{at}mindspring.com
The projected rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration is expected to increase growth and yield of many agricultural crops. The magnitude of this stimulus will partly depend on interactions with other components of the atmosphere such as tropospheric O3. Elevated CO2 concentrations often lessen the deleterious effects of O3, but the mechanisms responsible for this response have received little direct examination. Previous studies have indicated that protection against O3 injury by elevated CO2 can be attributed to reduced O3 uptake, while other studies suggest that CO2 effects on anti-oxidant metabolism might also be involved. The aim of this experiment was to test further the roles of O3 flux and antioxidant metabolism in the suppression of O3 injury by elevated CO2. In a two-year experiment, soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] was exposed from emergence to maturity to charcoal-filtered air or charcoal-filtered air plus a range of O3 concentrations in combination with ambient or approximately twice-ambient CO2 concentrations in open-top field chambers. Experimental manipulation of O3 concentrations and estimates of plant O3 uptake indicated that equivalent O3 fluxes that suppressed net photosynthesis, growth, and yield at ambient concentrations of CO2 were generally much less detrimental to plants treated concurrently with elevated CO2. These responses appeared unrelated to treatment effects on superoxide dismutase, glutathione reductase, and peroxidase activities and glutathione concentration. Total ascorbic acid concentration increased by 28–72% in lower canopy leaves in response to elevated CO2 and O3 but not in upper canopy leaves. Increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 will likely ameliorate O3 damage to many crops due to reduced O3 uptake, increased carbon assimilation, and possibly as yet undetermined additional factors. The results of this study further suggest that elevated CO2 may increase the threshold O3 flux for biomass and yield loss in soybean.
Key words: Antioxidants, ascorbic acid, carbon dioxide, conductance, flux, Glycine max, ozone, soybean, starch, yield
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