Modeling photosynthetic resource allocation connects physiology with evolutionary environments.

ABSTRACT: The regulation of resource allocation in biological systems observed today is the cumulative result of natural selection in ancestral and recent environments. To what extent are observed resource allocation patterns in different photosynthetic types optimally adapted to current conditions, and to what extent do they reflect ancestral environments? Here, we explore these questions for C₃, C₄, and C₃-C₄ intermediate plants of the model genus Flaveria. We developed a detailed mathematical model of carbon fixation, which accounts for various environmental parameters and for energy and nitrogen partitioning across photosynthetic components. This allows us to assess environment-dependent plant physiology and performance as a function of resource alloca

SUBMITTER: Sundermann EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8342476 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature