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Fotoprotección en las hojas de avocado en relación con el manejo del canopeo Photoprotection in avocado leaves in relation to canopy management Barry Osmond 1,2 Britta Förster 2 and John Leonardi 3 1 University of Wollongong 2 Australian National University 3 Avocados Australia Abstract: avocado retains a deep canopy of shade leaves with high photosynthetic efficiency. They are doubly photoprotected by 2 pigment systems and do well in diffuse light and long sun- flecks, achieving 20-50% photosynthesis rates of sun leaves at the same light intensity. Depending on pruning style shade leaves suffer light stress for >3 days, but re-invent the pigment systems of sun leaves in ~10 days; simply amazing!! Proceedings VII World Avocado Congress 2011 (Actas VII Congreso Mundial del Aguacate 2011). Cairns, Australia. 5 – 9 September 2011

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Fotoprotección en las hojas de avocado enrelación con el manejo del canopeo

Photoprotection in avocado leaves inrelation to canopy management

Barry Osmond 1,2 Britta Förster 2

and John Leonardi 3

1 University of Wollongong2 Australian National University

3 Avocados Australia

Abstract: avocado retains a deep canopy ofshade leaves with high photosynthetic efficiency.

They are doubly photoprotected by 2 pigmentsystems and do well in diffuse light and long sun-flecks, achieving 20-50% photosynthesis rates ofsun leaves at the same light intensity. Dependingon pruning style shade leaves suffer light stress

for >3 days, but re-invent the pigment systems ofsun leaves in ~10 days; simply amazing!!

Proceedings VII World Avocado Congress 2011 (Actas VII Congreso Mundial del Aguacate 2011). Cairns, Australia. 5 – 9 September 2011

One hundred-fold range in photosynthesis within aSouthern Hemisphere avocado canopy at noon

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Orchard at Goodwood Qld; at noon 23 July 2010

• why do avocados keep deeply shadedinner canopies with high efficiency, low

capacity leaves seemingly poorlyprotected against excess light?

• how do these leaves tolerate extremecanopy management regimes?

Differential effects of pruning strategy on shadeleaf photosynthesis

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sun 3 d (Fv/Fm 0.70±0.02)

dark 3 d (Fv/Fm 0.77±0.03)

sun (Fv/Fm 0.73±0.02)

Selectivebranchremoval

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sun (Fv/Fm 0.73±0.02)

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Two pigment cycles in avocado shade leaves:both may stabilize photoprotection (NPQ)

Rabinowitchet al (1975)

in greentomatoes

Yamamotoet al (1962)

in lettuceleaves

Reversal of Lx-cycle is 10-100 x slower than V-cycle in

avocado shade leaves

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Photoprotection 1: ΔL “locks-in” high NPQ for 72h in shade leaves

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New science from avocado:shade leaves prove that

LUTEIN has one, possiblytwo, roles in photoprotection

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After just 1 h in 10 %sun Lx→ ∆L and ∆L

replaces A+Zovernight to sustain

high NPQ

Lutein first to decreaseon shade-sun transfer:photoxidative protection

(as in retina?)

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Photoprotection 2: huge new synthesis of ΔL and A+Z from carotenes

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Surprising science: oldavocado shade leaves are

able to reinvent themselvesas sun leaves in ~10 days

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avocado pigments, Goodwood