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Chlorophyll Fluorescence in vivo: A
Theory (Part II).
Calculation of phytoplankton primary
production.
Photosynthesis of microalgae can be measured as
the rate of radioactive carbon assimilation (Steemann Nielsen, 1952) or as an
increase in the concentration of soluble oxygen in a sample (Williams, 1982;
Langdon, 1984). These methods are rather labor-consuming, and their application
involves numerous artifacts due to prolonged isolation of phytoplankton in
bottles (Eppley, 1980), difference between net and gross photosynthesis (Bender
et al., 1987), and metal toxicity (Fitzwater et al., 1982). The application of
chlorophyll fluorescence methods avoids these problems and allows gross
photosynthesis of microalgae to be continuously measured in real time without
affecting their physiological state (Kolber et al., 1990; Green et al., 1992).
The relationship between chlorophyll a (Chla) fluorescence
and photosynthesis is described in a number of biophysical models of the
primary processes of photosynthesis (Weis and Berry, 1987; Genty et al.,1989;
Kiefer and Reynolds, 1992).
The model of carbon assimilation Vc
(mM C m-3 s-1) by phytoplankton is based on light
dependence of photosynthesis, which can be described by a coefficient of
underwater radiation absorption by photosynthetic pigments of photosystem II in suspension of microalga aPSP
(m-1) averaged over the spectral range of underwater radiation,
where PSP stands for photosynthetic pigments (Dubinsky et al., 1986), and the
efficiency of the conversion of absorbed energy in photosynthetic reactions, f(I) (mM C mE-1). The photosystems II (PS II) realize the main primary
reactions of photosynthesis decomposing water and evolving oxygen.
According this assumption the photosynthesis
rate is equal to:
Vc(I) = aPSP*f(I) * I (1)
where I is the underwater radiation (mE m-2 s-1).
The value of f(I) is proportional to the relative number of functionally active (Ѓ), open (qP) reaction centers PS II in algal cells, to the
efficiency of photochemical conversion of light energy in open reaction centers
(fRC, mM
electron mE-1), and to the efficiency of CO2 reduction by electrons
from PS II (fe, mM C
(mM electron)-1):
Vc(I) = (aPSP)S*Ѓ*qP(I) * fRC * fe * I (2)
Assessment of Ѓ, fRC and fe:
The photochemical efficiency of open reaction
center of PS II can be determined from the ratio of fluorescence parameters: fRC =(Fv/Fm)max
(Klughammer, 1992). Its known that value of fRC equal 0.83 for prevailing taxons of marine
microalgae excluding blue-green algae.
It was shown that the decrease in the Fv/Fm
ratio corresponds to the decrease in fraction of functioning PS II reaction
centers (Ѓ) (Kolber 1988, 90), a process which is induced by excessive irradiation
(Vasiliev et al., 1994; Long et al., 1994), limitation of phytoplankton growth
by mineral nutrients (Green et al., 1992; Falkowski et al., 1989) or some
pollutants as heavy metals for example (Matorin, Antal, Sharshenova et al.,
2001): Ѓ=(Fv/Fm)/(Fv/Fm)max
Thus, parameters fRC and Ѓ are
proportional to the relative yield of variable fluorescence of chlorophyll in
microalgae adapted to natural radiation, so we assume:
Ѓ*fRC=Fv/Fm (3)
The value of fe was estimated from the following considerations. To reduce one molecule of CO2, 4 electrons should be transferred from PS II , so, theoretical fe may be as high as 0.25, however, a fraction of electron flow is used for nitrate and sulfate reduction (Dubinsky et al., 1986; Laws, 1991), for cyclic electron transport around PS I (Slovacek et al., 1980; Myers, 1987) and PS II (Falkowski et al., 1986a), as well as for O2 reduction (Chemeris, 96). This parameter couldn't be measured by fluorescence methods. Comparison of fe