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Ammonia emission from rice leaves in relation to photorespiration and genotypic differences in glutamine synthetase activity

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Background and Aims Rice (Oryza sativa) plants lose significant amounts of volatile NH3 from their leaves, but it has not been shown that this is a consequence of photorespiration. Involvement of photorespiration in NH3 emission and the role of glutamine synthetase (GS) on NH3 recycling were investigated using two rice cultivars with different GS activities.
Methods NH3 emission (AER), and gross photosynthesis (PG), transpiration (Tr) and stomatal conductance (gS) were measured on leaves of ‘Akenohoshi’, a cultivar with high GS activity, and ‘Kasalath’, a cultivar with low GS activity, under different light intensities (200, 500 and 1000 mmol m22 s21), leaf temperatures (27.5, 32.5 and 37.5 8C) and atmospheric O2 concentrations ([O2]: 2, 21 and 40 %, corresponding to 20, 210 and 400 mmol mol21).
Key Results An increase in [O2] increased AER in the two cultivars, accompanied by a decrease in PG due to
enhanced photorespiration, but did not greatly influence Tr and gS. There were significant positive correlations between AER and photorespiration in both cultivars. Increasing light intensity increased AER, PG, Tr and gS in both cultivars, whereas increasing leaf temperature increased AER and Tr but slightly decreased PG and gS. ‘Kasalath’ (low GS activity) showed higher AER than ‘Akenohoshi’ (high GS activity) at high light intensity, leaf temperature and [O2].
Conclusions Our results demonstrate that photorespiration is strongly involved in NH3 emission by rice leaves and suggest that differences in AER between cultivars result from their different GS activities, which would result in different capacities for reassimilation of photorespiratory NH3. The results also suggest that NH3 emission in rice leaves is not directly controlled by transpiration and stomatal conductance.
Key words: Ammonia assimilation, ammonia emission, glutamine synthetase, nitrogen, Oryza sativa,
photorespiration, rice cultivars.

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Annals of Botany

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: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company., 2011

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Annals of Botany 108: 1381–1386, 2011

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