Second Round of Evaluation Round 2: and Author Response
Figure 4 – The crunch of this paper is Figure 4e which show the Rubisco:PSII ratio is correlated to ETR. While I’m convinced in the presented data only three data-points are shown – I’m most convinced in that this same relationship is presented in in “Aquatic Photosynthesis (edition 2) Figure 7.9 – Falkowski” based on work of Sukenik (1986?). A greater discussion should be given in the text to how these datasets compare and what is significantly new in this dataset? References 35 and 36 are discussed in relation to the potential control of cytb6f on limiting electron transfer from PSII but more should be made of Falkowski’s observations which support this data.