Photosynthetic Potential and Light-Dependent Oxygen Consumption in a Benthic Cyanobacterial Mat

AUTOR(ES)

Jørgensen, Bo Barker

RESUMO

The potential to carry out oxygenic photosynthesis after prolonged burial below the photic zone was studied at 0.1-mm depth intervals in the thick, laminated Microcoleus chthonoplastes mats growing in Solar Lake, Sinai. The buried mat community lost about 20% of its photosynthetic potential with depth per annual layer down to 8- to 10-year-old layers at a 14-mm depth. In some of the older layers, below a 30-mm depth, light-dependent oxygen consumption which increased with increasing light intensity was observed. Possible mechanisms for this phenomenon are (i) pseudocyclic electron transport (Mehler reaction), (ii) interactions between respiratory electron transport and photosynthetic electron transport, (iii) photorespiration, and (iv) photooxidation.

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