Compensating effects to growth of carbon partitioning changes in response to SO₂-induced photosynthetic reduction in radish

Exposure of plants to SO₂ reduced their photosynthetic performance due tio reductions in carboxylating capacity. Although the reduced carbon gain resulted in a lower growth rate of SO₂-exposed plants over that of controls, their loss of potential growth was minimized because of proportional increases in allocation to new leaf material.