Study of the Photosynthesis Response during the Gradual Lack of Water for 14 Olea europaea L. subsp europaea Cultivars and Their Adaptation to Climate Change

Genoveva Carmen Martos de la Fuente, Benjamín Viñegla, Elena Illana Rico, Ana Maria Fernández Ocaña · 2023

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Genoveva Martos de la Fuente and co-authors track how fourteen olive cultivars photosynthesize as water runs short. Their 2023 study serves a practical question for a warming Mediterranean: which olive varieties keep working under drought. Plants were measured with a precision gas-exchange instrument while light was stepped up, building a curve of photosynthesis against light for each cultivar.

Curves were taken both with ample water and as dryness deepened gradually, mimicking a real dry spell rather than a shock. Cultivars differed in how their carbon uptake held or sagged. The authors frame the ranking as planting advice: match the variety to the water a place can honestly offer under climate change.

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CREATORGenoveva Carmen Martos de la Fuente, Benjamín Viñegla, Elena Illana Rico, Ana Maria Fernández Ocaña
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE52 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10748137

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