LIGHT INJURY AND INHIBITION IN ANTARCTIC FRESHWATER PHYTOPLANKTON1
LIGHT INJURY AND INHIBITION IN ANTARCTIC FRESHWATER PHYTOPLANKTON1
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南极淡水浮游植物的光损伤和抑制1
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1963
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B. Wood
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C. Goldman;D. T. Mason;B. Wood
Inhibition and injury of the photosynthetic mechanism resulting from high light intensities in the 24-hr Antarctic summer daylight were studied using Cl4 in two small lakes on Cape Evans, Ross Island. The diel rates of carbon fixation were completely out of phase with light intensity, the effect being more pronounced at the surface than at depth. This inhibition could be quantitatively reduced by exposing the plankton to incident light passing a graded series of neutral density filters. A maximum rate was found at 20% of incident photosynthetic light at noon (0.10 langley/min), while photosynthetic efficiency in another experiment had decreased down to 0.06 langley/min close to the previous midnight. The effect of temperature increase upon the photosynthetic uptake in highly inhibited plankton was investigated, and a Qlo of about 7 determined. Benthic and noninhibited phytoplankton both had an average Qlo of about 2. A brief sunlight exposure of plankton kept in dim artificial light brought about a reversible depression of photosynthetic rate. The ecological importance of these results to phytoplankton production under the severe Antarctic conditions is discussed. The inhibitory effects of sunlight above INTRODUCTION 0.2 langley/min upon photosynthesis in natural waters (Talling 1961) and algal cultures (Sorokin and Krauss 1958) are well known. This inhibition is expressed as a depression of carbon uptake at the surface, with a subsurface maximum where the light intensity has decreased to an optimum value. It has also been noted that exposure to bright sunlight injured the subsequent in sitzl photosynthetic processes tremely low light conditions beneath a of phytoplankton populations living in excover of ice and snow ( Goldman 1963). A distinction between “inhibition” and “injury,” as exemplified by these two cases, will be made in this paper. F;ZTater selectively absorbs larger proportions of the ultraviolet and infrared radiation than of the central part of the visible spectrum, and available evidence suggests that these extravisible wavelengths are the cause of lower photosynthetic rates. The damaging or inhibitory effects of ultraviolet and infrared light upon cellular organization at all levels is an area of investigation presently receiving much attention. Energy absorption by pigments in the near infrared is held responsible for photoinhibition of photosynthesis by Govindjee, Cederstrand, and Rabinowitch ( 1961). The l The authors wish to acknowledge the U. S. Antarctic Research Program-National Science Foundation Grant G-18020, and the logistic support of ground and air personnel of Navy Task Force 43. Valuable assistance with the manuscript was given by K. C. Green. z Present address: Unilever Research Laboratory, Colworth House, Sharnbrook, Bedford, Eng-