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Drought and watering-dependent oxidative stress: effect on antioxidant content in Triticum aestivum L. leaves 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Bartoli G; Simontacchi M; Tambussi E; Beltrano J; Montaldi E; Puntarulo S 《Journal of experimental botany》1999,50(332):373-381
The purpose of the present work was to evaluate both oxidative stress and
the antioxidant response system in leaves from wheat (Triticum
aestivum cv. Buck Poncho) subjected sequentially to drought and
watering. Drought was imposed by withholding water until soil water
potential reached -2.0 MPa and maintained under those conditions for 24 h.
DCFDA oxidation by wheat leaves was not significantly affected by drought,
but watering led to an approximately 2-fold increase in DCFDA oxidation
rate. However, no significant effect either on lipid radical content or on
hydroperoxide content was measured after drought and drought followed by
watering. Microsomes isolated from leaves exposed to drought, and from
leaves exposed to drought followed by watering, generated a significantly
higher amount of hydroxyl radical as compared to microsomes isolated for
control leaves suggesting a higher production of hydroxyl radical in the
cellular water soluble phase, after drought and watering as compared to
control values. The content of -tocopherol
in wheat leaves was increased 2.4-fold after drought and -carotene content was increased by 2.6-fold after
drought. Hydration lowered lipid-soluble antioxidant content to control
values. Total thiol content as increased by 70% after drought, and watering
did not significantly alter the enhanced values. Drought decreased by 28.5%
the content of reduced ascorbic acid. Taken as a whole, active species
formed at wheat membranes after exposure to moderate water stress, are
efficiently removed upon rehydration by reaction with an increased content
of -tocopherol and -carotene. Moreover a co-ordinated response
involving glutathione reductase activity, thiols and ascorbic acid is
triggered to limit free radical dependent effects.Key
words: Antioxidants, lipid radicals, oxygen radicals, water
stress, wheat
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2.
In a companion paper several methods of calculating the marginal unit water
cost of plant carbon gain (E/A) were tested to determine
whether stomata were behaving optimally in relation to regulating leaf gas
exchange. In this paper one method is applied to several tropical tree
species when leaf-to-air vapour pressure difference (D), photosynthetic
photon flux density, leaf temperature, and atmospheric soil water
availability were manipulated. The response of leaves that had expanded
during the dry season were also compared to that of leaves that had
expanded in the wet season. Few differences in absolute value of
E/A, or the form of the relationship, were observed
between species or between seasons. In the majority of species,
E/A increased significantly as either leaf-to-air vapour
pressure difference increased, at a leaf temperature of either 33C or 38C, or as in
photosynthetic photon flux density increased. In contrast, as leaf
temperature increased at constant D, E/A was generally
constant. As pre-dawn water potential declined, E/A
declined. The relationship between E/A and D did not
differ whether internal or ambient carbon dioxide concentration were kept
constant. It is concluded that stomata are only behaving optimally over a
very small range of D. If a larger range of D is used, to incorporate
values that more closely reflect those experienced by tropical trees in a
savanna environment optimization is incomplete.Key
words: Stomatal optimization theory, marginal unit water cost.
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3.
The Relationship Between Transpiration Rate, Water Potential, and Resistances to Water Movement in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The effects of transpiration rate on the vertical gradientsof leaf and stem xylem water potential ( and ) were examinedusing hydroponic sunflower plants. Transpiration was variedby stepwise alterations of environmental conditions. The gradientsof and were relatively small (2.3 and 0.8 x 105 Pa m1)when transpiration rates approached zero, but increased sharplyto 5.4 and 2.3 x 105 Pa m1 as transpiration increased.However, the gradients were independent of transpiration ratesabove 0.4 g dm2 h1 owing to variability of theplant resistance. The gradients of I were usually less thanhalf those of I. 1 in individual leaves remained constant over a wide range oftranspiration rates (0.42.4 g dm2 h1) andeach leaf possessed a characteristic plateau value related toits elevation. I responded similarly but was approximately 2.0x 105 Pa higher than I at the same elevation. Identical resultswere obtained regardless of the procedure employed to vary transpiration. The drop in water potential between stem and leaf implies thatthe leaf resistance is appreciable. This was confirmed usingrapidly transpiring excised leaves freely supplied with water.I increased by 2.02.5 x 105 Pa following removal of theroot resistance but remained 2 x 105 Pa lower than similar excisedleaves in darkness. Furthermore, I in excised leaves remainedconstant over a wide range of transporting rates, demonstratingthat the leaf resistance is also variable. The results are discussed in relation to previous reports. 相似文献
4.
LARQUE-SAAVEDRA A.; RODRIGUEZ M. T.; TREJO C.; NAVA T. 《Journal of experimental botany》1985,36(11):1787-1792
Larqué-Saavedra, A., Rodriguez, M. T., Trejo, C. andNava, T. 1985. Abscisic acid accumulation and water relationsof four cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris L. under drought.J.exp. Bot 36: 17871792. Plants of four cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris L. differingin drought resistance were grown in pots under greenhouse conditionsand prior to flowering water was withheld from the pots untilthe mid-day transpiration rate reached values below 1.0 µgH2O cm2 s1 (designated the droughtstage). At this point leaves were harvested on 3 or 4 occasionsover 24 h to determine the abscisic acid (ABA) concentration,total water potential (), solute potential (1) and turgor potential(p). Results showed that values of , 1, and p differed between cultivarswhen they reached the drought stage. The stomatalsensitivity to changes in and p, was as follows: Michoacán12A3 > Negro 150 Cacahuate 72 > Flor de Mayo. These datacorrelated well with the pattern of drought resistance reportedfor the cultivars. ABA accumulation at the drought stage differedbetween cultivars at each sampling time, but overall differencesin ABA level between cultivars were not significant. ABA levelsdid not, therefore, correlate with the drought resistance propertiesreported for the cultivars. Results are discussed in relationto and hour of the day when bean samples were taken for ABAanalysis. Key words: Phaseolus vulgaris L., drought resistance, abscisic acid 相似文献
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HENSON I. E.; ALAGARSWAMY G.; MAHALAKSHMI V.; BIDINGER F. R. 《Journal of experimental botany》1983,34(4):442-450
The water potential () at which stomata completed closure (8Lmin)was determined for pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum [L.]Leeke) at two growth stages by monitoring changes in leaf conductance(gL) and following shoot detachment. Leaf water status wasevaluated concurrently using a pressure-volume (P-V) technique. In a pot experiment with young vegetative plants, 8Lmin closelyapproximated to the estimated at zero turgor (u) both for controland for drought-conditioned plants which had osmotically adjusted.However, for penultimate leaves of field-grown flowering plants,8Lmin was found to be 0.61 (irrigated plants) and 0.87 (droughtedplants) MPa below u. In drought-stressed field-grown plants,osmotic adjustment (characterized by a decrease in solute (osmotic)potential (s ) at both full hydration and zero turgor) was insufficientto maintain a positive bulk leaf turgor potential (p) once had declined to below about -1.5 MPa. It is suggested that localizedadjustment by the stomatal complex in response to environmentaldifferences, leaf ageing and/or ontogenetic change, is responsiblefor the uncoupling of stomatal from bulk leaf water status. Key words: Stomata, Water stress, Pennisetum americanum 相似文献
6.
Mycorrhizal influence on hydraulic and hormonal factors implicated in the control of stomatal conductance during drought 总被引:17,自引:1,他引:16
Duan Xiangrong; Neuman Dawn S.; Reiber Janet M.; Green Craig D.; Saxton Arnold M.; Aug Robert M. 《Journal of experimental botany》1996,47(10):1541-1550
During drying, mycorrhizal plants often maintain higher stomatalconductance (gs) than similarly-sized and -nourished non-mycorrhizalplants, but the mechanism of mycorrhizal influence remains unclear.Several hydraulic and non-hydraulic factors previously implicatedin control of stomatal behavior during drought were measured,to learn which are affected when roots of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata[L.] Walp. cv. White Acre) are extensively colonized by Glomusintraradices Schenck and Smith isolate UT143. At low soil watercontents (), mycorrhizal plants maintained higher gs, transpirationand shoot water potential () than non-mycorrhizal plants. Thesehigher foliar water status characters were associated with lowerxylemsap abscisic acid concentrations ([ABA]) and lower ABAfluxes to leaves in mycorrhizal plants at low soil . Stomatalconductance was most closely correlated with xylem-sap [ABA],ABA flux to leaves and shoot . Stomatal conductance was notcorrelated with xylemsap concentrations of calcium or zeatinriboside equivalents, or with xylem-sap pH, nor were these xylem-sapconstituents affected by mycorrhizal symbiosis. Stomata of mycorrhizaland non-mycorhizal leaves showed similar sensitivities to ABA,whether leaves were intact or detached. It is concluded thatmycorrhizal fungi probably increased the capability of rootsystems to scavenge water in drier soil, resulting in less strainto foliage and hence higher gs, and shoot at particular soil. Key words: Abscisic acid, cytokinins, Glomus intraradices 相似文献
7.
The Transport of Water from Soil to Shoot in Wheat Seedlings 总被引:14,自引:5,他引:9
A technique is described for precisely measuring the drop inwater potential, , between the soil and the leaf xylem of wheatseedlings. The technique was used to explore the relation betweentranspiration rate and at various times during the monotonicdrying of the soil in which the plants were growing. When thesoil was wet, the relation was linear, but, as the soil dried,nonlinearities appeared which were, in the main, explicablein terms of simple soil physical models describing the flowof water through the soil to the roots. There was no sign ofthe major hydraulic resistance at the root: soil interface thatother people have recently found. 相似文献
8.
The Relationship between Stem Diameter and Water Potentials in Stems of Young Cabbage Plants 总被引:11,自引:2,他引:9
Continuous measurements were made of stem shrinkage, stem waterpotential (3) and transpiration rate (T) in young, pot-growncabbage plants subjected to cycling evaporative demands. Sequencesof increasing evaporative demands induced increases in T anddecreases in both 3 and stem diameter and conversely, wheneverevaporative demand decreased, T declined and 3 and stem diameterrose. Over short periods, stem water potentials and stem shrinkagewere virtually parallel even when rapid oscillations were induced.Over longer periods the effects of growth were important comparedwith those of water stress on stem diameter when the moisturecontent of the soil was high. Growth, however, ceased when theplant was subjected to relatively mild water stress (3 = 0.4MPa). Stem diameters, after correction for growth, were linearlyrelated to plant water potential. The results suggest that stemshrinkage and only a few calibration measurements might be usedto provide continuous estimates of water potentials in fieldcrops. Key words: Cabbage, Stem diameter, Stem water potential 相似文献
9.
Yield, carbon isotope discrimination, canopy reflectance and cuticular conductance of barley isolines of differing glaucousness 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Febrero A; Fernandez S; Molina-Cano J; Araus J 《Journal of experimental botany》1998,49(326):1575-1581
The roles of wax bloom (Glaucousness) in discrimination against stable
isotope 13C () and yield were studied for 2
years on a pair of near-isogenic lines of two-rowed barley
(Hordeum vulgare L.) differing in their degree of
glaucousness of the spike and the upper vegetative parts of the plant other
than leaf blades. The effects of glaucousness on canopy reflectance and
cuticular conductance were also assessed. Plants were grown under fully
irrigated and rainfed Mediterranean conditions for 2 years. Grain yield for
both years and total straw biomass measured in the second year were higher
in glaucous than non-glaucous lines under both irrigated and rainfed
conditions. followed the same pattern in both grain and straw
with the highest values in the glaucous line under irrigation and the
lowest in the non-glaucous line under rainfed conditions. Differences in
yield and between the lines were greater under irrigated than
rainfed conditions. The higher of the glaucous line suggests that
these plants had lower transpiration efficiency (net photosynthesis to
transpiration ratio) than the non-glaucous line in the long term. Canopy
reflectance at some of the wavelengths of the PAR
region (400-700 nm) was significantly higher in the glaucous than in the
non-glaucous line under both irrigated and rainfed conditions. Rainfed
conditions also increased canopy reflectance in the
PAR region. No significant effect of either
glaucousness or water regime was observed in cuticular conductance or
amount of cuticular waxes of the flag leaf blades or the
ear. 相似文献
10.
Sitka spruce seedlings were subjected to drought in experimentsin a growthroom, a greenhouse, and out of doors. The plantswere grown in a double chamber with the bulk of the roots inthe upper part where they dried out the soil when water waswithheld. A few new roots penetrated into the lower part inwhich the soil remained moist. The double chamber system enabledthe plant to attain a high water psotential by night and theshoot was only periodically under mild water stress. Measurementswere made on soil water potential (solt), leaf water potential(1), transpiration (E), and stomatal conductance (ks). As soildecreased over a period of 4.5 d, E and ks decreased progressively.The decline in E and ks which indicated stomatal closure, occurredat a higher 1 than has been reported for Sitka spruce. The behaviourof the stomata appeared to be modified by conditions at theroot, and it is proposed that differences in the response to1,depend on Whether the latter is reduced by resistances in thexylem between root and leaf, as is known to occur in large treesin moist soil, or by stresses at the root itself. 相似文献
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Stomatal sensitivity of six temperate, deciduous tree species to non-hydraulic root-to-shoot signalling of partial soil drying 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
The objective of this study were to (1) characterize stomatal response of
six deciduous tree species to non-hydraulic, root-sourced signals of soil
drying, and (2) test whether species sensitivity to non-hydraulic
signalling is allied with their drought avoidance and tolerance profiles.
Saplings were grown with roots divided between two pots. Three treatments
were compared: one half of the root system watered and half droughted (WD),
one half of the root system watered and half severed (WS), both halves
watered (WW). Drying about half of the root system caused non-hydraulic
declines in stomatal conductance (gs) in all species,
with gs of WD plants reduced to from 40% to 60% of WS
controls. Declines in stomatal conductance were closely related to
declining soil matric potential (m) between -0.01 and -0.10 MPa.
Soil m required to cause declines in gs of
WD plants to 80% of WS controls varied from a high of -0.013 to a low of
-0.044 MPa. Stomatal inhibition varied somewhat with leaf age in half of
the species. Leaf osmotic potentials during soil drying were mostly similar
among treatments. Although stomatal sensitivity to the non-hydraulic,
root-sourced signal (characterized as decline in gs
per unit decline in soil ) was not closely correlated with
previously identified lethal leaf water potentials or capacity for osmotic
adjustment, species having the highest stomatal sensitivity also had the
least hydration tolerance. This suggests that stomatal sensitivity to
non-hydraulic root signals may be mechanistically linked to a limited
extent with other characteristics defining relative species drought
tolerance. 相似文献
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Continuous and simultaneous measurements of CO2 exchange andtranspiration rates of whole soybean plants were made undercontrasting, controlled environmental conditions when waterstress was imposed by withholding water. Daytime temperaturesand vapour pressure deficits were 27.5 ° C/12 mbar; 27.5° C/5 mbar; 22.5 ° C/12 mbar, and 22.5 ° C/5 mbar.The experimental conditions were virtually the same as the conditionsunder which the plants had been grown. Under all four treatments photosynthesis and transpiration rateswere closely correlated as water stress increased, but in viewof the evidence for a significant mesophyll resistance to photosynthesisin- both stressed and unstressed plants it is not consideredthat this is due to total stomatal control. At 0.4 bar soil water potential (soll) the rates oftranspiration and photosynthesis became independent of the atmosphericconditions and were very similar under all treatments. Thisis attributed to slow movement of water into the root zone fromthe surrounding soil with associated stomatal closure limitingthe rates of water uptake and transpiration. With decreasing soll, relative water content of the leaf (RWC)fell more rapidly and to lower levels under 27.5 ° C/12mbar conditions than under the other treatments. The least reductionin RWC was under the 22.5 ° C/5 mbar treatment. Increasingsoil water stress had the greatest relative effect on ratesof gaseous exchange under 27.5 ° C/12mbar conditions andleast under 22.5 ° C/5mbar conditions. 相似文献
13.
A karyopherin (LeKAP1) cDNA was isolated from tomato
plants. The deduced LeKAP1 protein sequence of 527 amino acids
showed similarity to other plant karyopherin proteins. When
LeKAP1 was expressed in a yeast two-hybrid
system together with the gene coding for the capsid protein (CP) of the
tomato yellow curl leaf virus (TYLCV), it interacted directly with CP.
Thus, LeKAP1 may be involved in the nuclear import of TYLCV CP
and, potentially, the TYLCV genomes during viral infection of the host
tomato cells. 相似文献
14.
The changes in leaf extension, plant dryweight, leaf area, netassimilation rate (E), relative growth-rate (RW), and relativeleaf growth-rate (RL), have been studied for four species grownfor 2 weeks in solutions of polyethylene glycol 4000 of controlledosmotic potentials. All aspects of growth were decreased bydecreasing the osmotic potential (sol) of the root medium andthe leaf water potential (), and ceased when / was greater than 10 bars in bean, cotton, maize. These plants were moresusceptible than ryegrass to water stress. Growth of bean stoppedat equal to about 6 bars, but even at 10 barsryegrass was capable of some growth. Slight decrease in fromthe values in the control plants decreased growth during thefirst week but partial recovery was apparent during the secondweek's growth in solution culture, when leaf extension, E, RLand RW increased in plants subjected to stress. Examinationof the water balance, water potential, osmotic potential andturgor of the leaf in relation to relative water content suggeststhat recovery was related to increased turgor and that the abilityof the plants to grow at reduced values of the osmotic potentialof the root medium and of the leaf water potential depend onthe maintenance of turgor. 相似文献
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The role of solute accumulation, osmotic adjustment and changes in cell wall elasticity in drought tolerance in Ziziphus mauritiana (Lamk.) 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Clifford S; Arndt S; Corlett J; Joshi S; Sankhla N; Popp M; Jones H 《Journal of experimental botany》1998,49(323):967-977
Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.) is a major fruit tree
crop of the north-west Indian arid zone. In a study of the physiological
basis of drought tolerance in this species, two glasshouse experiments were
conducted in which trees were droughted during single stress-cycles. In the
first experiment, during a 13 d drying cycle, pre-dawn leaf water
(leaf) and osmotic () potentials in droughted
trees declined from -0.5 and -1.4 MPa to -1.7 and -2.2 MPa, respectively,
for a decrease in relative water content () of 14%. During
drought stress, changes in sugar metabolism were associated with
significant increases in concentrations of hexose sugars (3.8-fold),
cyclitol (scyllo-inositol; 1.5-fold), and proline (35-fold; expressed per
unit dry weight), suggesting that altered solute partitioning may be an
important factor in drought tolerance of Ziziphus. On
rewatering pre-dawn leaf and recovered fully, but
remained depressed by 0.4 MPa relative to control
values, indicating that solute concentration per unit water content had
changed during the drought cycle.Evidence for osmotic adjustment was
provided from a second study during which a gradual drought was imposed.
Pressure-volume analysis revealed a 0.7 MPa reduction in osmotic potential
at full turgor, with leaf at turgor loss depressed by 1 MPa in
drought-stressed leaves. Coupled with osmotic adjustment, during gradual
drought, was a 65% increase in bulk tissue elastic modulus (wall rigidity)
which resulted in turgor loss at the same in both stressed and
unstressed leaves. The possible ecological significance of maintenance of
turgor potential and cell volume at low water potentials for drought
tolerance in Ziziphus is discussed.Keywords:
Ziziphus mauritiana, drought, solute
accumulation, osmotic adjustment, proline.
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Expression of Characteristics of Ammonium Nutrition as Affected by pH of the Root Medium 总被引:6,自引:1,他引:5
CHAILLOU S.; VESSEY J. K.; MOROT-GAUDRY J. F.; RAPER C. D. JR; HENRY L. T.; BOUTIN J. P 《Journal of experimental botany》1991,42(2):189-196
To study the effect of root-zone pH on characteristic responsesof -fed plants, soybeans (Glycine max {L.}Merr. cv. Ransom) were grown in flowing solution culture for21 d on four sources of N (1.0 mol m3 , 0.67 mol m3 plus 0.33 mol m3, 0.33 mol m3 plus 0.67 mol m3 , and 1.0 mol m3) with nutrient solutions maintained at pH 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, and 4.5. Amino acid concentration increased inplants grown with as the sole source of N at all pH levels. Total amino acid concentration in the rootsof -fed plants was 8 to 10 times higher than in -fed plants, with asparagine accounting for more than 70% of the total in the roots of these plants.The concentration of soluble carbohydrates in the leaves of-fed plants was greater than that of -fed plants, but was lower in roots of -fed plants, regardless of pH. Starch concentration was only slightlyaffected by N source or root-zone pH. At all levels of pH tested,organic acid concentration in leaves was much lower when was the sole N source than when all or part of theN was supplied as . Plants grown with mixed plus N sources were generally intermediate between - and -fed plants. Thus, changes in tissue compositioncharacteristic of nutrition when root-zone pH was maintained at 4.5 and growth was reduced, still occurredwhen pH was maintained at 5.0 or above, where growth was notaffected. The changes were slightly greater at pH 4.5 than athigher pH levels. Key words: Ammonium, nitrogen nutrition, root-zone pH, soybean, tissue composition 相似文献
17.
The objective was to determine whether the protein of
rolB affects shoot formation and whether this
potential relationship depends on the developmental stages of the plant
and/or on the culture conditions. Thin cell layers (TCL) and leaf explants
were excised from tobacco plants in the vegetative and flowering stages and
cultured under various hormonal conditions. In TCLs of vegetative-stage
plants, the expression of rolB enhanced the formation
of the shoot buds under hormone-free conditions and with specific
concentrations of auxin and/or cytokinin. Histological examination showed
that the induction of the shoot meristemoids was particularly enhanced by
rolB protein and that meristemoid growth was
accelerated. In leaf explants from vegetative-stage plants, the expression
of rolB increased the formation of shoot buds in the
presence of 1 M IAA plus 1 or 10 M cytokinin. With BA alone, at a 0.1 M concentration, shoot formation occurred in the
transgenic explants only, whereas with concentrations ranging from 0.5 to
10 M, it was higher in these explants than in
controls.RolB protein enhanced the formation of shoot
buds in TCLs from flowering plants under all hormonal conditions. In the
presence of 1 M IAA and kinetin, the protein also increased the
flowering response. In leaf explants from flowering plants, the expression
of rolB increased the number of shoot buds in the
presence of 1 M IAA with 10 M BA.In conclusion,
rolB protein promotes shoot formation; it seems to
have a positive interaction with cytokinin and an effect on the induction
of the meristematic condition. 相似文献
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Mastoparan analogues stimulate phospholipase C- and phospholipase D-activity in Chlamydomonas: a comparative study 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
van Himbergen J; ter Riet B; Meijer H; van den Ende H; Musgrave A; Munnik T 《Journal of experimental botany》1999,50(341):1735-1742
The G-protein activator mastoparan and its analogues are becoming popular
tools for studying signalling in plants. Therefore the abilities of
mastoparan, mas7, mas8, and mas17 to activate phospholipase C (PLC), PLD
and to induce the deflagellation response in Chlamydomonas
moewusii Gerloff were compared. The aim was to test whether
their relative potencies in a plant system resemble those reported for
bovine brain Go and Gi, as is generally assumed, and to determine at which
concentrations cells become permeabilized, a known effect of higher
concentrations. The concentrations at which 50% deflagellation was induced,
were 2.0 M mastoparan, 3.0 M mas8, 3.6 M mas7, and 5.8 M
mas17. Similar activities were found for the production of phosphatidic
acid, which is the result of the combined activities of PLD and PLC
(together with diacylglycerol kinase). PLD activity alone was measured
in vivo by its ability to phosphatidylate
n-butanol. Surprisingly, the concentrations that
stimulated maximum activity were about 10-fold lower (1
M) than those that stimulated maximum PLC activity (10
M). Mas17 was an exception with both maxima above 10 M.
All the compounds except mas17 permeabilized C.
moewusii cells. The concentrations at which 50% of the cells
were permeabilized to Evan's blue were 7.4 M mas8, 16.0 M
mas7 and 22.4 M mastoparan. In conclusion, only mastoparan itself
and the least active analogue mas17 induced maximum deflagellation, PLC and
PLD activities without permeabilizing the cells.Keywords:
Chlamydomonas, deflagellation, mastoparan,
phospholipases C and D, phospholipid metabolism
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Legge, N. J. 1985. Water movement from soil to root investigatedthrough simultaneous measurement of soil and stem water potentialin potted trees.J. exp. Bot. 36: 15831589. Osmotic tensiometers implanted in the stems of three mountainash (Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell.) saplings growing in largeplastic bins recorded stem water potential, w, while soil waterpotential, w, was simultaneously recorded by instruments nearthe trees' roots and in the surrounding root-free soil Earlyin a drying cycle, with the soil still wet, the diurnal variationin 1, was often slight, despite diurnal variations in u approaching2.0 M Pa. Late in a drying cycle the diurnal fluctuations in1, and u were very similar although changes in 1, still laggedup to 1.5 h behind changes in u. 1values at this time occasionallyreached 3.0 MPa with no apparent damage to the treesWatering the bins in daytime led to a response in 1, valueswithin about 5 min, whereas u, values did not respond for afurther 20 min. u values then rose rapidly but after only 1h began to decline again, while 1, values remained at or nearsaturation for the rest of the day. Water uptake hypotheseswhich attribute an important role to a soil-root interface resistanceare not supported by these data Key words: Soil water potential, penrhizal gradients 相似文献
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The Structure and Functions of Xyloglucan 总被引:14,自引:1,他引:13
Xyloglucan is a polysaccharide found in the primary cell wallsof all higher plants examined. Its cellulose-like backbone,which is about 0.15 to 1.5 µm long, consists of 300 to3 000 ß-(14)-linked D-glucopyranose residues. About6075% (or, in grasses, about 3040%) of the glucoseresidues have side-chains attached to position 6. The majorside-chains are: D-xylopyranosyl--1 -, D-galactopyranosyl-ß-(12)-D-xylopyranosyl--I , L-arabinofuranosyl-(1 -2)-D-xylopyranosyl--1-, and (except in grasses) L.-fucopyranosyl--(1 -2)-D-galactopyranosyl-ß-(1-2)-D-xylopyranosyl--1-. There is some regularity in the distribution of these side-chainsalong the backbone. Xyloglucan plays two very different r?les in the control ofcell growth: (a) as a major building material of the wall [concentrationof xyloglucan in the wall in vivo 10% (w/v)] it probably directlydictates wall extensibility and, therefore, the rate of cellexpansion and (b) it can be broken down to a fucose-containingoligosaccharide which [at a concentration of 0.0000001% (w/v)]exerts a hormone-like anti-auxin effect on growth. In addition,xyloglucan lacking fucose is used by certain dicotyledonousseeds as a food reserve which is mobilized after germination.Xyloglucan is, therefore, the subject of considerable currentinterest in several apparently disparate areas of botany. Key words: Xyloglucan, oligosaccharin, hemicellulose, auxin, anti-auxin, growth, cell walls, reserve carbohydrate 相似文献