Indian Journal of Plant Physiology

  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 3

Gibberellin induced differences in intrinsic water use, carboxylation and photochemical efficiencies in a tea (Camellia sinensis L.) accession

  • Author:
  • H. Bindumadhava1,#,, T.G. Prasad1, M.K. Joshi2, N. Sharma2,#
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 293 to 297

1Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bangalore - 560 065, India

2Hindustan Lever Research Centre, Bangalore - 560 066, India

Abstract

We demonstrate the plausible utility of gas exchange and fluorescence approaches for exploiting the variability in physiological traits such as water use, carboxylation and photochemical efficiencies in a tea accession (SA6) treated with different concentrations of gibberellin (GA3).

Keywords

Gibberellin, intrinsic carboxylation efficiency, photochemical efficiency of PS II, photosynthetic rate