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European Social Fund, Grant/Award Number: FPI/1700/2014; Govern de les Illes Balears; Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad and ERDF, Grant/Award Number: CTM2014-53902-C2-1-P

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January 20, 2022
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Acclimation of mesophyll conductance and anatomy to light during leaf aging in Arabidopsis thaliana

Publicated to:Physiologia Plantarum. 172 (4): 1894-1907 - 2021-08-01 172(4), DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13398

Authors: Carriqui, Marc; Nadal, Miquel; Flexas, Jaume;

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Univ Illes Balears, Res Grp Plant Biol Mediterranean Condit, Palma de Mallorca 07122, Illes Balears, Spain - Author
Univ Tasmania, Sch Nat Sci, Hobart, Tas, Australia - Author

Abstract

Mesophyll conductance (g(m)), a key limitation to photosynthesis, is strongly driven by leaf anatomy, which is in turn influenced by environmental growth conditions and ontogeny. However, studies examining the combined environment x age effect on both leaf anatomy and photosynthesis are scarce, and none have been carried out in short-lived plants. Here, we studied the variation of photosynthesis and leaf anatomy in the model species Arabidopsis thaliana (Col-0) grown under three different light intensities at two different leaf ages. We found that light x age interaction was significant for photosynthesis but not for anatomical characteristics. Increasing growth light intensities resulted in increases in leaf mass per area, thickness, number of palisade cell layers, and chloroplast area lining to intercellular airspace. Low and moderate-but not high-light intensity had a significant effect on all photosynthetic characteristics. Leaf aging was associated with increases in cell wall thickness (T-cw) in all light treatments and in increases in leaf thickness in plants grown under low and moderate light intensities. However, g(m) did not vary with leaf aging, and photosynthesis only decreased with leaf age under moderate and high light, suggesting a compensatory effect between increased T-cw and decreased chloroplast thickness on the total CO2 diffusion resistance.

Keywords

Co2 assimilationDiffusion conductanceGas-exchangeLeavesModelPhotosynthetic electron-transportPlantTemperatureTreeWater

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Physiologia Plantarum due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position 33/239, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Plant Sciences.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 3.86, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Sep 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-09-15, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 12
  • Scopus: 9
  • Europe PMC: 5

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-09-15:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 20.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 20 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 10.55.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 18 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Australia.