The Kranz syndrome in the Eragrostideae (Chloridoideae, Poaceae) as indicated by carbon isotopic ratios*
Bothalia - African Biodiversity & Conservation
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| Title | The Kranz syndrome in the Eragrostideae (Chloridoideae, Poaceae) as indicated by carbon isotopic ratios* | |
| Creator | Panarello, Hector O. Sanchez, Evangelina | |
| Description | 13C/12C ratios are generally regarded as being very reliable indicators of C3 or C4 photosynthesis. These relative carbon isotope ratios are expressed as a negative δ 3C and fall into two distinct groups: Kranz (or C4) plants with δ between -9°/00 no and -18°/00 and non-Kranz (C3) plants with δ between -22°/00 and -280/00 no. In this paper, 29 taxa, representing 12 genera, of the tribe Eragrostideae were examined by mass spectrometry for their δ 13C in dried leaf tissue. All these taxa proved to be C4, plants with δ13C values ranging between -13,6°/oo and -10.9°/oo. These findings confirmed published leaf anatomical observations which showed that all the studied taxa had characteristic Kranz leaf anatomy. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1984-12-06 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/abc.v15i3/4.1852 | |
| Source | Bothalia; Vol 15, No 3/4 (1984); 587-590 2311-9284 0006-8241 | |
| Language | eng | |
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