Chapter 171 of 2363 min read
Factors affecting photosynthesis
Why this is asked: Blackman's law of limiting factors is the lens for every graph question here: the factor nearest its minimum sets the rate, so a light-saturation plateau means light has stopped being limiting and something else — usually CO2 or temperature — now is, not that photosynthesis has maxed out for good.
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