The Role of Sustained Photoprotective Non-photochemical Quenching in Low Temperature and High Light Acclimation in the Bloom-Forming Arctic Diatom Thalassiosira gravida
International audience Thalassiosira gravida is a major Arctic diatom responsible for the under-ice spring bloom. We investigated T. gravida physiological plasticity growing it at two temperatures (0 and 5 • C) and under different light intensities typically found in its natural environment. T. grav...
Published in: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02323707 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02323707/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02323707/file/2018e-FrontiersMarineSci.pdf https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00354 |
Summary: | International audience Thalassiosira gravida is a major Arctic diatom responsible for the under-ice spring bloom. We investigated T. gravida physiological plasticity growing it at two temperatures (0 and 5 • C) and under different light intensities typically found in its natural environment. T. gravida showed remarkable thermal-and photo-acclimatory plasticity including: low light saturation parameter for growth (K E) and photosynthesis (E K), low µ max but relatively high Chl a/C, low C/N, and decreasing light-saturated carbon fixation rate (P C m) with increasing growth irradiance. T. gravida also showed remarkable photoprotective features, namely a strong sustained non-photochemical quenching (NPQs, hour kinetics relaxation) supported by a high amount of xanthophyll cycle pigments. T. gravida growth remained possible under a wide range of irradiances but photosynthetic plasticity was higher at moderately low light (up to ∼50 µmol photons m −2 s −1), nevertheless corresponding to the mean in situ conditions under which it predominates, i.e., underneath the spring thin-ice punctuated with melting ponds. The potential role of NPQs in the photophysiological plasticity of T. gravida is discussed. |
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