The chlorophyll fluorescence (F) temperature curves in a linear time-temperature heating/cooling regime were used to study heat-induced irreversible F changes in primary green leaves of spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Akcent). The leaf segments were heated in a stirred water bath at heating rates of 0.0083, 0.0166, 0.0333, and 0.0500 °C s −1 from room temperature up to maximal temperature T m and then linearly cooled to 35 °C at the same rate. The F intensity was measured by a pulse-modulated technique. The results support the existence of the two critical temperatures of irreversible F changes postulated earlier, at 45−48 and 53−55 °C. The critical temperatures are slightly dependent on the heating rate. Two types of parameters were used to characterize the irreversibility of the F changes: the coefficient of irreversibility μ defined as the ratio of F intensity at 35 °C at the starting/ending parts of the cycle and the slopes of tangents of linear parts of the F temperature curve. The dependence of μ on T m revealed a maximum, which moved from 54 to 61 °C with the increasing heating/cooling rate ν from 0.0083 to 0.0500 ºC s −1 , showing two basic phases of the irreversible changes. The Arrhenius and Eyring approaches were applied to calculate the activation energies of the initial increase in μ. The values varied between 30 and 50 kJ mol −1 and decreased slightly with the increasing heating rate.
We present a cryogenic method for the measurement of total hemispherical emissivity and absorptivity of various materials at temperatures from 320 K down to ≈20 K. In absorptivity measurement the temperature of the examined sample is kept at ≈5 K–35 K. Radiative heat flow between two plane parallel surfaces of 40 mm in diameter disk samples placed in a vacuum, a sample and a disk with reference surface, is absorbed by a colder sample and sinks into an LHe bath via a thermal resistor (heat flow meter). Heat flow is measured by substitution method, using thermal output of an electrical heater for heat flow meter calibration. A great deal of attention is paid to the estimation of uncertainties associated with this method. Capabilities of the instrument are demonstrated by the absorptivity and emissivity measurement of the pure aluminium sample. The expanded fractional uncertainty (k = 2) in emissivity ε = 0.0041 measured at ≈30 K for pure aluminium is less than 11% and for values of emissivity ε > 0.0053 measured above 60 K the uncertainties are below 7%. The method was designed primarily for the measurement of highly reflective materials like pure metals, nevertheless high emissivity of the reference sample also enables the measurement of non-metallic materials with reasonable accuracy.
Although the chloroplast movement can be strongly affected by ambient temperature, the information about chloroplast movement especially related to high temperatures is scarce. For detailed investigation of the effects of heat stress (HS) on tobacco leaves (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Samsun), we used two different HS treatments in dark with wide range of elevated temperatures (25-45 degrees C). The leaf segments were either linearly heated in water bath at heating rate of 2 degrees C min(-1) from room temperature up to maximal temperature (T (m)) and then linearly cooled down to 25 degrees C or incubated for 5 min in water bath at the same T (m) followed by 5 min incubation at 25 degrees C (T-jump). The changes in light-induced chloroplast movement caused by the HS pretreatment were detected after the particular heating regime at 25 degrees C using a method of time-dependent collimated transmittance (CT) and compared with the chlorophyll O-J-I-P fluorescence rise (FLR) measurements. The inhibition of chloroplast movement started at about 40 degrees C while the fluorescence parameters responded generally at higher T (m). This difference in sensitivity of CT and FLR was higher for the T-jump than for the linear HS indicating importance of applied heating regime. A possible influence of chloroplast movement on the FLR measurement and a physiological role of the HS-impaired chloroplast movement are discussed.
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