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Exposure of plants to SO2 reduced their photosynthetic performance due tio reductions in carboxylating capacity. Although the reduced carbon gain resulted in a lower growth rate of SO2-exposed plants over that of controls, their loss of potential growth was minimized because of proportional increases in allocation to new leaf material.
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Mooney, H.A., Küppers, M., Koch, G. et al. Compensating effects to growth of carbon partitioning changes in response to SO2-induced photosynthetic reduction in radish. Oecologia 75, 502–506 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00776411
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