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Steady‐state models of photosynthesis
Author(s) -
CAEMMERER SUSANNE
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
plant, cell and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.646
H-Index - 200
eISSN - 1365-3040
pISSN - 0140-7791
DOI - 10.1111/pce.12098
Subject(s) - photosynthesis , assimilation (phonology) , c4 photosynthesis , biological system , bicarbonate , steady state (chemistry) , chemistry , computer science , botany , biology , linguistics , philosophy , organic chemistry
In the challenge to increase photosynthetic rate per leaf area mathematical models of photosynthesis can be used to help interpret gas exchange measurements made under different environmental conditions and predict underlying photosynthetic biochemistry. To do this successfully it is important to improve the modelling of temperature dependencies of CO 2 assimilation and gain better understanding of internal CO 2 diffusion limitations. Despite these shortcomings steady‐state models of photosynthesis provide simple easy to use tools for thought experiments to explore photosynthetic pathway changes such as redirecting photorespiratory CO 2 , inserting bicarbonate pumps into C 3 chloroplasts or inserting C 4 photosynthesis into rice. Here a number of models derived from the C 3 model by F arquhar, von C aemmerer and B erry are discussed and compared.