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One of the great fascinations of the genus Clusia is that its single leaf morphotype (Sect. 2.1) expresses different photosynthetic physiotypes. Often different photosynthetic types are even expressed by the same species and even in clones of vegetatively propagated plants or in different leaves of single individual plants depending on environmental conditions. The photosynthetic types observed among Clusias are based on the modes of C3-photosynthesis and of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) and its variants. Figure 8.1 presents a schematic overview of the basic features of the three to four different photosynthetic physiotypes found among Clusias. Figures 8.2 and 8.3 show typical patterns of photosynthetic CO2-gas exchange for different modes of photosynthesis expressed among four different species under identical conditions in a phytotron (Fig. 8.2) and for different modes of photosynthesis expressed in one species, Clusia minor L., under different conditions (Fig. 8.3), respectively.
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- Crassulacean Acid Metabolism
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Lüttge, U. (2007). Photosynthesis. In: Lüttge, U. (eds) Clusia. Ecological Studies, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37243-1_10
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