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Xinyu Fu1, Berkley J Walker2,3
1Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
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Leaf-level gas exchange is widely used to investigate the largest carbon fluxes in illuminated leaves, offering a nondestructive way to investigate the impact of photorespiration on plant carbon balance. Modern commercial gas exchange systems allow high temporal resolution measurements under changing environments, aiding the development of nonsteady-state approaches for measuring dynamic photosynthetic responses. Here, we describe a nonsteady-state technique for acquiring the dynamic response of net CO2 assimilation to changes in photorespiratory fluxes manipulated by O2 mole fractions. This technique allows for the screening of plant genotypes with variations in their efficiencies of photorespiration under nonsteady-state conditions.
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