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Photochemical properties in flag leaves of a super-high-yielding hybrid rice and a traditional hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) probed by chlorophyll a fluorescence transient

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Chlorophyll a fluorescence of flag leaves in a super-high-yielding hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) LYPJ, and a traditional hybrid rice SY63 cultivar with lower grain yield, which were grown in the field, were investigated from emergence through senescence of flag leaves. As the flag leaf matured, there was an increasing trend in photosynthetic parameters such as quantum efficiency of primary photochemistry (\(\varphi\) Po) and efficiency of electron transport from PS II to PS I (Ψ Eo). The overall photosynthetic performance index (PIABS) was significantly higher in the high-yielding LYPJ compared to SY63 during the entire reproductive stage of the plant, the same to MDA content. However, \(\varphi\) Po(=F V/F M), an indicator of the primary photochemistry of the flag leaf, did not display significant changes with leaf age and was not significantly different between the two cultivars, suggesting that PIABS is a more sensitive parameter than \(\varphi\) Po (=F V/F M) during leaf age for distinguishing between cultivars differing in yield.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support was provided by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 31271621 and No. 31301245); Natural Sciences Foundation of Shanxi province (2009021030-2); Open project funds of State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology of Shandong Agricultural University (2014KF03); and by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China (No. 2013-067). We also want to thank Mr. Lv ChuanGen for his help with materials and Zhang ChengJun for his guide with our experiment.

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  1. College of Life Sciences, ShanXi Normal University, Linfen, 041004, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Meiping Zhang

  2. College of Geography Sciences, ShanXi Normal University, Linfen, 041004, Shanxi, People’s Republic of China

    YongJie Shan

  3. USDA-ARS, Robert W. Holly Center for Agriculture and Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Leon Kochian

  4. Bioenergetics Laboratory, University of Geneva, 1254, Jussy, Geneva, Switzerland

    Reto J. Strasser

  5. Key Lab of Biodiversity and Biotechnology of Jiangsu Province, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097, People’s Republic of China

    GuoXiang Chen

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Zhang, M., Shan, Y., Kochian, L. et al. Photochemical properties in flag leaves of a super-high-yielding hybrid rice and a traditional hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) probed by chlorophyll a fluorescence transient. Photosynth Res 126, 275–284 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-015-0151-8

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