Oxygen evolution rate in Antarctic filamentous alga Stigeoclonium sp. evaluated by optodes relates to chlorophyll fluorescence parameters (Short Communication)

• Main Author: Váczi, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Masaryk Univerzity 2018
• Subjects: effective quantum yield; oxygen evolution rate; Antarctic phototroph photosynthesis; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/12922

Photosynthetic reactions of algal communities, the essential component of primary production in polar regions, are strongly dependent on environmental factors. Among them, availability and amount of light in particular parts of growing season are of major importance. In this paper, the response of the photosynthetic processes of a filamentous fresh-water alga to photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) was studied by two approaches. The simultaneous measurements of the effective quantum yield (FPSII) and oxygen evolution rate (OER) at stepwise increasing photosynthetically active radiation provided data for beneficial correlation analysis of the FPSII to OER relationship in a wide range of PAR. In this study, the culture of filamentous alga Stigeoclonium sp. was analyzed. The linear relationship between FPSII and OER was found for the low PAR (the range of 0 – 200 mmol.m-2.s-1). At high PAR levels (200 – 1000 mmol.m-2.s-1) another linear relationship with different slope was found. The approach combining the fluorometric and oxymetric method might be used for calibration of data in follow up studies and, consequently for evaluation of photosynthetic rates (O2 evolution) from chlorophyll fluorescence data.