The effect of the dark interval in intermittent light on thylakoid development: photosynthetic unit formation and light harvesting protein accumulation |
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Authors: | G Tzinas J H Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou G Akoyunoglou |
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Institution: | (1) National Research Center Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece |
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Abstract: | Etiolated bean plants were grown in intermittent light with dark intervals of shorter or longer duration, to modulate the rate of chlorophyll accumulation, relative to that of the other thylakoid components formed. We thus produced conditions under which chlorophyll becomes more or less a limiting factor. We then tested whether LHC complexes can be incorporated in the thylakoid. It was found that an equal amount of chlorophyll, formed under the same total irradiation received, may be used for the stabilization of few and large-in-size PS units containing LHC components (short dark-interval intermittent light), or for the stabilization of many and small-in-size PS units with no LHC components (long dark-interval intermittent light). The size of the PS units diminishes as the dark-interval duration is increased, with no further change after 98 minutes. The PSII/cytf ratio remains constant throughout development in intermittent light and equal to that of mature chloroplasts (PSII/cytf = 1) except in the case of very long dark-interval regimes, where about half PSII units per cytf are present. The PSII/PSI ratio was found to be correlated with the PSII unit size (the larger the size, the lower the ratio). The number of PSI units operating on the same electron transfer chain varied depending on the size of the PSII unit (the larger the PSII unit size, the more the PSI units per chain). The results suggest that it is not the chlorophyll content per se which regulates the stabilization of LHC in developing thylakoids and consequently the size of the PS units, but rather the rate by which it is accumulated, relative to that of the other thylakoid components.Abbreviations Chl
Chlorophyll
- CL
Continuous light
- CPa
the reaction center complex of PSII
- CPI
the reaction center complex of PSI
- CPIa
Chlorophyll protein complex containing the CPI and the light harvesting complex of PSI
- fr w
fresh weight
- LDC
Light dark cycles
- LHC-I
Light-harvesting complex of PSI
- LHC-II
Light harvesting complex of PSII
- PS
photosystem
- PSI
photosystem I
- PSII
photosystem II |
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Keywords: | chlorophyll accumulation chloroplast development cytochrome f intermittent light light-harvesting pigment protein complex photosystem I and II |
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