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Environmental constraints to photosynthesis in ex vitro plants

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Physiology, Growth and Development of Plants in Culture

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Plants transferred to a different environment may become more susceptible to various stresses because they have not developed adequate patterns of resource allocation and evolved the morphological and physiological features required by the new ‘demands’. This is the case for micropropagated plants which often do not survive transfer from in vitro culture to the greenhouse or the field [56], where high irradiances and low air humidity become stressful to the young plants just starting to become auto trophic. Understanding mechanisms of stress physiology as well as the plant’s potential to acclimate to new environments is of particular importance if we are to predict and improve performance and survival of plants during the process of acclimation, or acclimatization. The latter is the horticultural terminology for acclimation, meaning the guided process of adjustment of the plants to a new environment [20].

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Chaves, M.M. (1994). Environmental constraints to photosynthesis in ex vitro plants. In: Lumsden, P.J., Nicholas, J.R., Davies, W.J. (eds) Physiology, Growth and Development of Plants in Culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0790-7_1

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