Re: [ECOLOG-L] Bubble production as a way to calculate photosynthetic rate

2012-05-02 Thread malcolm McCallum
Somewhere in my boxes of books I have a small paperback that is entitled something like labs in botany. It is probably from the 1950s, but I don't know where it is right now. In that book is a version of the lab of which you speak. When I taught biology at Belleville Area College (Belleville, IL

[ECOLOG-L] Bubble production as a way to calculate photosynthetic rate

2012-05-01 Thread Jorge A. Santiago-Blay
Hello Ecolog-Listers: Centuries ago, Charles Bonnet reported that submerged plants produced bubbles in the presence of light. Now, we know the gas is oxygen and the process is photosynthesis. Do you know anyone who reported that before Bonnet? Calculating rate of photosynthesis by using the rate