Chlorophyll a fluorescence as a tool to monitor physiological status of plants under abiotic stress conditions

By Hazem M. Kalaji, Anjana Jajoo, A. Oukarroum, Marian Brestic, M. Živčák, I. Samborska, Magdalena D. Cetner, Izabela Łukasik, Vasilij Goltsev, Richard J. Ladle. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2016

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Plants living under natural conditions are exposed to many adverse factors that interfere with the photosynthetic process, leading to declines in growth, development, and yield. The recent development of Chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlF) represents a potentially valuable new approach to study the photochemical efficiency of leaves. Specifically, the analysis of fluorescence signals provides detailed information on the status and function of Photosystem II (PSII) reaction centers, light-harvesting antenna complexes, and both the donor and acceptor sides of PSII. Here, we review the results of fast ChlF analyses of photosynthetic responses to environmental stresses, and discuss the potential scientific and practical applications of this innovative methodology. The recent availability of portable devices has significantly expanded the potential utilization of ChlF techniques, especially for the purposes of crop phenotyping and monitoring.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser - Chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters as indicators of a particular abiotic stress in rice (2020, methodology): “Moreover, Kalaji et al. (2014, 2016) selected some Chl a fluorescence parameters as a species-specific approach to identify/predict the nutrient deficiency in tomato and maize plants and according to Živčák et al. (2014), some selected parameters are considered as more reliable and more useful to…”
Photosynthetic efficiency in sun and shade plants (2018, background): “Chl a fluorescence has proved to be a valuable technique to evaluate the photosynthetic efficiency of a plant (Kalaji et al. 2016).”
High-Throughput Estimation of Crop Traits: A Review of Ground and Aerial Phenotyping Platforms (2020, background): “The fluorescence sensor provides an image for exploring the spatial patterns of the leaf photosynthetic status [151] and for the early detection of crop stress symptoms, as influenced by diseases and pests [98].”
Special issue in honour of Prof. Reto J. Strasser - Comparative analysis of drought stress response of maize genotypes using chlorophyll fluorescence measurements and leaf relative water content (2020, methodology): “Values lower than this have been observed if samples exposed to biotic or abiotic stress which reduces the capacity for photochemical quenching of energy within PSII, e.g., through the process of photoinhibition (Maxwell and Johnson 2000, Strasser et al. 2000, 2004; Kalaji et al. 2016).”
Chlorophyll a fluorescence induction: Can just a one-second measurement be used to quantify abiotic stress responses? (2018, background): “…remote sensing of plants, and other fields of research that are related to photosynthesis (for reviews, see e.g., Moya and Cerovic 2004, Baker 2008, Meroni et al. 2009, Murchie and Lawson 2013, Guanter et al. 2014, Kalaji et al. 2014a, 2016, 2017a,b; Humplík et al. 2015, Mishra et al. 2016a).”