Regulatory Coordination of Photophysical, Photochemical, and Biochemical Reactions in the Photosynthesis of Land Plants

作者：Lianhong Gu, Bernard Grodzinski, Jimei Han, Telesphore R. J. G. Marie, Yong‐Jiang Zhang, Yang Song, Ying Sun · 发表于：Plant Direct · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1002/pld3.70080 · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms、Light effects on plants、Plant responses to elevated CO2

ABSTRACT Balance among the sequential photophysical, photochemical, and biochemical reactions of photosynthesis is needed for converting fleeting energy in light to stable energy in chemical bonds. Any imbalance acts as either a bottleneck for limiting photosynthetic efficiency or an agent for inducing structural and functional damage to photosynthetic apparatus. Not only must each reaction be carefully regulated, but regulatory processes must also be coordinated across the reactions. However, regulations of different stages of photosynthesis have rarely been studied jointly. Non‐photochemical quenching ( NPQ ) and stomatal conductance ( g s ) are key regulators of photophysical and biochemical reactions, respectively. Existing evidence suggests that the redox state of plastoquinone regulates g s and that the photochemical reactions are partially regulated by the ultrastructural dynamics of thylakoids induced by osmotic water fluxes in chloroplasts of land plants. To examine how these regulations are coordinated and feedback to each other, we simultaneously measured NPQ and g s and inferred the redox state of plastoquinone and the light‐induced thylakoid swelling/shrinking on numerous C 3 and C 4 species. For all species measured, NPQ and g s covary with the redox states of the electron transport chain, particularly plastoquinone, and increase as thylakoid swelling is inferred. NPQ has the maximal sensitivity at the light intensity at which thylakoid is inferred to be fully s...