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Fraction of photosynthesis variations that are due to temperature changes in marine phytoplankton phytoplankton 50 % 116124 Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM...
Accumulation of inorganic carbon (Ci) within cell that enables high rates of photosynthesis (even) at low extracellular Ci concentrations Microalgae 2 to 6 fold that of extracellular concentrations 116864 Hopkinson, B.M., 2014....
Efficiency of the transduction of intercepted solar radiation into plant carbohydrate through photosynthesis of crop leaf canopies Plants Table - link Mt 109834 Long SP, Zhu XG, Naidu SL...
Estimates of respiration as a fraction of photosynthesis for maize, rice and wheat Biosphere 0.3-0.6 Unitless 103803 Jeffrey S. Amthor, The...
Photon requirements of photosynthesis in marine algae grown, and measured, at close to present day atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide Algae Table - link absorbed mol photon per mol carbon or per mol oxygen 110701 Raven, J. a, Beardall...
Fraction of global primary production contributed by anoxygenic photosynthesis (therefore rubisco is responsible for >99% of carbon fixation globally) Biosphere <<1 % 113693 Jorg Overmann and Ferran...
Calculated values for free energy changes of stromal and cytosolic enzymic reactions during photosynthesis Spinach Spinacia oleracea Table - link N/A 105953 Gerhardt R, Stitt M,...
Fraction of CO2 assimilated through photosynthesis that is typically lost via photorespiration in C3 crops like rice and wheat Plants 25 % 114625 Wilson, R.H. & Whitney...
Fraction of starch produced during day in photosynthesis that remains at end of night Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana 5-10 % 104718 Gibon Y, Pyl ET, Sulpice R...
Content of chloroplast in C3 plant leaf (% dry mass of chloroplast) Plants 60% protein:20% lipid:7.5%photosynthesis products:4% chlorophyll:2.5% nucleic acids:0.9% carotenoids N/A 105599 Lawlor, D. W, Photosynthesis:...
Time to cover 6Å in the first electron transfer in bacterial photosynthesis (the fastest chemical reaction known in biology) bacteria 2.8 picosec 107121 biophysics textbook online...
Photorespiratory CO2 losses in moderate conditions Soybean Glycine max ~20 % of net photosynthesis 111969 Bauwe H, Hagemann M,...
Flux control coefficient of RubisCO Unspecified -0.2 to 1.0 Sec 107435 Stitt M, Lunn J, Usadel...
Percent of chloroplast out of mesophyll cell volume Spinach Spinacia oleracea 16 (Table - link) % 104369 Hans-Walter Heldt and...
Total CO2 in biosphere Biosphere ~4E+16 kg 100244 Nobel, P. S. "Plant ...
Total CO2 in atmosphere Biosphere ~8e+14 kg 100472 Nobel, P. S. "Plant ...
Global primary productivity - [carbon] Biosphere ~1e+14 kg/year 100241 Nobel, P. S. "Plant ...
Apparent affinities for inorganic carbon (K1/2(Ci)) and estimations of internal pool size Cyanobacteria Synechococcus PCC7002 Table - link N/A 110474 Sultemeyer D, Price GD...
Ratio between the substomatal or intercellular and ambient air CO2 concentrations in C3 species Plants 0.65 to 0.80 unitless 101760 Alistair M. Hetherington1...
Ratio between the substomatal or intercellular and ambient air CO2 concentrations in C4 species Plants 0.40 to 0.60 unitless 101761 Alistair M. Hetherington1...