Abstract
The growth of plants under high carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations (≥ 1000 ppm) is explored for the climate change and the bioregenerative life support system (BLSS) environment of long-duration space missions. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a grass cultivated for cereal grain—a global staple food including astronauts. Light and CO2 are both indispensable conditions for wheat seedlings. This study provides insights on the physiology, antioxidant capacity and photosynthetic characteristics of wheat seedlings under a range of photosynthetic photon flux densities in a closed system simulating BLSS with high CO2 concentration. We found that the Fv/Fm, Fv/F0, chlorophyll content, intrinsic water use efficiencies (WUEi), membrane stability index (MSI), and malondialdehyde (MDA) of wheat seedlings grown under an intermediate light intensity of 600 μmol m−2 s−1 environment were all largest. Interestingly, the high light intensity of 1200 mol m−2 s−1 treatment group exhibits the highest net photosynthetic rate but the lowest MDA content. The stomatal conductance and F0 of high light intensity of 1000 μmol m−2 s−1 treatment group were both significantly higher than that of other groups. Our study provides basic knowledge on the wheat growth in different environments, especially in a closed ecosystem with artificial lights.
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Abbreviations
- HL:
-
High light
- IL:
-
Intermediate light
- LL:
-
Low light
- PPFD:
-
Photosynthetic photon flux density
- LED:
-
Light-emitting diodes
- LP1:
-
Lunar palace 1
- BLSS:
-
Bioregenerative life support system
- MSI:
-
Membrane stability index
- RWC:
-
Relative water content
- POD:
-
Peroxidase
- MDA:
-
Malondialdehyde
- A :
-
Net photosynthetic rate
- gs:
-
Stomatal conductance
- WUEi :
-
Intrinsic water use efficiencies
- Chl a:
-
Chlorophyll a
- Chl b:
-
Chlorophyll b
- Chl a + b:
-
Total chlorophyll content
- PS II:
-
Photosystem II
- F 0 :
-
Minimum fluorescence
- F m :
-
Maximum fluorescence
- F v :
-
Variable fluorescence
- Fv/Fm :
-
Maximum quantum yield of PSII efficiency
- Fv/F0 :
-
Potential activity of PS II
- H2O2 :
-
Hydrogen peroxide
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Yi, Z., Cui, J., Fu, Y. et al. Effect of different light intensity on physiology, antioxidant capacity and photosynthetic characteristics on wheat seedlings under high CO2 concentration in a closed artificial ecosystem. Photosynth Res 144, 23–34 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-020-00726-x
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