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. 1978 Dec;62(6):924-6.
doi: 10.1104/pp.62.6.924.

A sensitive technique for the rapid measurement of carbon dioxide concentrations

M D Clegg  1 , C Y Sullivan, J D Eastin
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A sensitive technique for the rapid measurement of carbon dioxide concentrations

M D Clegg et al. Plant Physiol. 1978 Dec.

Abstract

A method has been developed to measure concentrations of CO(2) in gases rapidly. A gas sample is injected into a flowing carrier gas that passes through an infrared CO(2) analyzer. A strip chart recorded peak response is obtained which is proportional to the CO(2) concentration. A resolution of better than 2 microliters of CO(2) per liter of gas was obtained. Seven to 10 seconds were required for sample analysis once the sample was obtained. Sorghum bicolor plant respiration was determined at different temperatures by measuring CO(2) using this system and by using a conventional system. The correlation between techniques was 0.996, and about the same variation occurred within each method. This technique greatly increased the efficiency of the infrared CO(2) analyzer in our laboratory for use in plant respiration and photosynthetic studies.

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