HÁJEK, Josef, Miloš BARTÁK, Jana HAZDROVÁ and Marie FORBELSKÁ. Sensitivity of photosynthetic processes to freezing temperature in extremophilic lichens evaluated by linear cooling and chlorophyll fluorescence. Online. Cryobiology. Academic Press, 2016, vol. 73, No 3, p. 329-334. ISSN 0011-2240. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2016.10.002. [citováno 2024-04-24]
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Original name Sensitivity of photosynthetic processes to freezing temperature in extremophilic lichens evaluated by linear cooling and chlorophyll fluorescence
Authors HÁJEK, Josef (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Miloš BARTÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jana HAZDROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Marie FORBELSKÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition Cryobiology, Academic Press, 2016, 0011-2240.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 1.996
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00091424
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2016.10.002
UT WoS 000389010600005
Keywords in English Usnea antarctica; Usnea aurantiaco-atra; Umbilicaria cylindrica; cryoresistance; Antarctica; James Ross Island; temperature stress
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Andrea Mikešková, učo 137293. Changed: 13/4/2017 21:54.
Abstract
Extremophilic lichens and their photosynthesizing photobionts from the cold regions of Earth are adapted to perform photosynthesis at subzero temperatures. To evaluate interspecific differences in the critical temperature for primary photochemical processes of photosynthesis, we exposed lichen thalli of Usnea antarctica, Usnea aurantiaco-atra, and Umbilicaria cylindrica to linear cooling from +20 to minus 50 °C at a constant rate of 2 °C/min. Simultaneously, two chlorophyll fluorescence parameters (FV/FM: potential yield of photosynthetic processes in photosystem II, YieldPSII: effective quantum yield of PS II) evaluating a gradual subzero temperature-induced decline in photosynthetic processes were measured by a modulated fluorometer. For the studied species, the response of FV/FM and YieldPSII to declining temperature showed an S-curve shape. The decline in FV/FM and YieldPSII at low temperatures started at minus 5 and +5 °C, respectively in the majority of cases. The decline was, however, species-specific. U. aurantiaco-atra showed a constant-rate decline of YieldPSII from the physiological temperature 20 °C. U. antarctica exhibited the first sign of FV/FM decline at minus 12 °C. The critical temperature related to full inhibition of the photosynthetic processes in PSII (FV/FM), was found at minus 20 °C. However, this occurred at minus 30 °C for U. cylindrica. In an individual sample, the critical temperature for FV/FM was typically lower than for YieldPSII. The method of linear cooling combined with simultaneous measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence parameters proved to be an efficient tool in the estimation of extremophilic species sensitivity/resistance to freezing.
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LM2010009, research and development projectName: Projekt CzechPolar - České polární stanice: Stavba a operační náklady
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
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