Percent Photosynthesis (Net CO2 Exchange Rate) Increases for
300, 600 and 900 ppm Increases in the Air's CO2 Concentration:


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Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. [Prickly Pear]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
7
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
26.7%
 
 
 Standard Error
4.3%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Israel and Nobel (1994)

open-top chambers, basal cladodes,late summer
12%

 

 

Israel and Nobel (1994)

open-top chambers, basal cladodes, winter
29%

 

 

Israel and Nobel (1994)

open-top chambers, basal cladodes, spring
30%

 

 

Israel and Nobel (1994)

open-top chambers, first-order daughter cladodes, late summer
24%

 

 

Israel and Nobel (1994)

open-top chambers, first-order daughter cladodes, winter
24%

 

 

Israel and Nobel (1994)

open-top chambers, first-order daughter cladodes, spring
17%

 

 

Nobel et al. (1994)

Photosynthesis of 13- to 15-month-old first-order cladodes that had emerged on well-watered basal cladodes one month after the basal cladodes had been planted out-of-doors in Riverside, California (USA), where they were grown in open-top-chambers
51%

 

 

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