Ah my wife left me to my druthers.....So here's an early retort.
Your argument speaks to LOGIC, not science. One must not use logic to answer science.
A great deal of importance has happened in research investigating photosynthetic response to environmental stress in the 25 years since the last anniversary issue of Plant Physiology. However, from my perspective, the importance of one set of discoveries stands out from the others for its far reaching influence on how we think about the photosynthetic response to a wide range on environmentally imposed limitations. As little as 15 years ago it was generally held that the success of plants in their environment was dictated by strategies that maximized the rate of photosynthesis. Further, maximum photosynthetic capacity was thought to be largely a static characteristic of individual leaves that was established during development. This view has now given way to the recognition that the regulation of photosynthesis in response to the environment is highly dynamic and dominated by a photoprotective process, the non-photosynthetic thermal dissipation of absorbed light (4, 10, 14), which was entirely unknown at the time of Plant Physiology's 50th Anniversary. This brief overview describes what is currently understood about this centrally important photoprotective process and highlights areas of current inquiry that may presage a detailed mechanistic understanding in the near future.
Even though light is the ultimate substrate for photosynthetic energy conversion, it can also harm plants. This toxicity is targeted to the water-splitting photosystem II and leads to damage and degradation of the reaction centre D1-polypeptide. The degradation of this very important protein appears to be a direct consequence of photosystem II chemistry involving highly oxidizing radicals and toxic oxygen species. The frequency of this damage is relatively low under normal conditions but becomes a significant problem for the plant with increasing light intensity, especially when combined with other environmental stress factors. However, the plant survives this photoinhibition through an efficient repair system which involves an autoproteolytic activity of the photosystem II complex, D1-polypeptide synthesis and reassembly of active complexes.
Excerpt from
2001 American Society of Plant Physiologists
When There Is Too Much Light
Donald R. Ort
-
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/125/1/29.full
PLEASE take the time to read the whole report from the above link. It has everything you ask for as far as source recognition.
Points to consider on this paper.
1: Too much light makes a plant reduce it's own ability to USE the light available.
2: CO2 absorption is reduced after peak effective light used.
3: To use your simple logic, 24/0 lights on time is not going to result in effective increased plant response.
4: Increased CO2 levels will not effectively increase growth response without effective temperature/humidity manipulation. This can be a variable and not a constant until flowering stage has been reached. Thus, the use of increased CO2 in veg gives only rudimentary results. (There may just have to be more on that later).
Serve has been returned.....Monday time table is now in effect.
