The cut flower chrysanthemum 'Jinba' was respectively treated with lower temperature and weaker light (16 degrees C/ 12 degrees C, PFD 100 micromol x m(-2) x s(-1)) and critical low temperature and weak light (12 degrees C/8 degrees C, PFD 60 micromol x m(-2) x s(-1)) for 11 days, and then transferred to normal condition (22 degrees C/18 degrees C, PFD 450 micromol x m(-2) x s(-1)) for 11 days, aimed to study the low temperature- and weak light stress and its recovery on the photosynthesis and chlorophyll fluorescence of chrysanthemum leaves.