Carbon Isotopic Composition Reflects Intrinsic Water Use Efficiency But Not its Component Traits in Sugarcane
Patrick Z. Ellsworth,
Paul M. White
Abstract:Water is the most important resource in plant growth and is a major limiting factor in sugarcane productivity worldwide. Improving water use efficiency (WUE) can increase sugarcane productivity relative to available water resources by increasing photosynthetic capacity relative to transpiration and stomatal conductance instead of decreasing stomatal conductance. Leaf carbon stable isotopic composition (δ13Cleaf) can serve as a proxy for intrinsic WUE (WUEi) because WUEi and δ13Cleaf are theoretically related t… Show more
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