… 2007a) impairs the fundamentals of some of these methods, including the ‘slope-based
carbon isotope discrimination’ method, the constant J method and the curve-fitting method (…

Drought and salinity (ie soil water stress) are the main environmental factors limiting photosynthesis
and respiration and, consequently, plant growth. This review summarizes the current …

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO 2 is a key photosynthetic trait that has been studied
intensively in the past years. The intention of the present review is to update knowledge of g …

• Rubisco activity decreases under water stress, for reasons as yet unclear. Here, the covariation
of stomatal conductance (g s ) and relative water content (RWC), often observed during …

… (1992) explicitly stated that ‘The constant J method worked well over a large range of CO 2
, but to resolve the effect of CO 2 on g m required the variable J method’. However, despite its …

• Whether photosynthesis is limited during water stress and recovery because of diffusive or
biochemical factors is still open to debate, and apparent contradictions appear when various …

… J max could be determined only in those days in which complete A N –C i curves were
performed. Similarly to V c,max , J … The rate of chloroplast electron transport (J flu ) in moderately …

… , even when leaf RWC was fully recovered (J Gulías and J Flexas, unpublished). Frequently,
field-… species from the Balearic Islands by J Galmés (unpublished results). (B) Study of 13 …

The aim of this study was to extent the range of knowledge about water relations and stomatal
responses to water stress to ten Mediterranean plants with different growth forms and leaf …

The specificity factor of Rubisco is a measure of the relative capacities of the enzyme to
catalyse carboxylation and oxygenation of ribulose 1,5‐bisphosphate and hence to control the …