Photosynthetic properties of three Brazilian seaweeds

• Autor(a) principal: Chaloub,Ricardo M.
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Reinert,Fernanda, Nassar,Cristina A. G., Fleury,Beatriz G., Mantuano,Dulce G., Larkum,Anthony W. D.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Botany
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-84042010000200017
• topic: Chlorophyll fluorescence; Lobophora variegata; Plocamium brasiliensis; Ulva fasciata

Photosynthetic performance of distinct marine macroalgae, Ulva fasciata Delile (green alga), Lobophora variegata (J. V. Lamouroux) Womersley ex E. C. Oliveira (brown alga), and Plocamium brasiliensis (Greville) M. A. Howe & W. R. Taylor (red alga), were compared using a pulse amplitude-modulated fluorometer. The maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm) ranged from 0.80 to 0.51, and the lowest value was found in P. brasiliensis. Under 400 µmol photons m-2 s-1 irradiance, the highest value of photochemical quenching (qP = 0.92 ± 0.13) was observed for U. fasciata. The red alga P. brasiliensis dissipated high amounts of excitation energy (qN = 0.56 ± 0.09), resulting in relatively low values for the effective quantum yield of PS-II (0.23 ± 0.04), as well as for the relative electron transport rate (3.3 ± 0.7). The high photosynthetic potential found for U. fasciata partially explains the species ability for rapid growth and high productivity.