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Nonautotrophic CO 2 metabolism in Opuntia echinocarpa roots was studied with techniques of manometry and radiometry. The roots were grown in a one-quarter strength nutrient solution for several days; the distal 2 cm was used for physiological studies. The roots assimilated significant quantities of 14CO 2 and appeared to show a crassulacean-type acid metabolism with respect to quality and quantity. Most of the 14C activity was associated with the distal portion of the elongating root indicating correlation with metabolic activity. The 14CO 2 assimilation was comparable to a crassulacean leaf succulent, but 3 times greater than that found for stem tissue of the same Opuntia species. The rates of O2 and CO2 exchange and estimated CO2 fixation were 180, 123, and 57 μl/g per hour. A respiratory quotient of 0.66 was found. The products of 14CO2 fixation were similar in most respects to reported experiments with leaf succulents. Equilibration of the predominant malic acid with isocitric, succinic, and fumaric acids was not evident. The latter observation was interpreted as metabolic isolation of the fixation products rather than poor citric acid cycle activity. A rapid turnover of the fixed 14CO2 was measured by following decarboxlyation kinetics and by product analysis after a postincubation period. The first order rate constant for the steady state release was 4.4 × 10−3 min−1 with a half-time of 157.5 minutes. Amino acids decayed at a more rapid rate than organic acids. 相似文献
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Small swards of nodulated subterranean clover plants were grown in pots to a common dry weight under controlled conditions. The rooting medium was a porous calcined clay. All mineral nutrients except nitrogen were supplied daily in solution. Pots then were placed in an assimilation chamber for 3 days for the measurement of net CO 2 exchange at light levels ranging from 0.1 to 2.0 millieinsteins per square meter per second. N 2-fixation (acetylene reduction) of each pot was measured subsequently. H 2-evolution and N 2-fixation were measured for similar treatments in separate experiments using smaller pots. 相似文献
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The increase in dark CO 2 fixation during cold storage of Gladiolus x gandavensis van Houtte-type grandiflorus cormels is used to monitor changes in their state of dormancy. Dark fixation is also promoted by benzyladenine, which breaks cormel dormancy, and is inhibited by abscisic acid and gibberellin A 3, which inhibit cormel germination. The rate of dark fixation by nondormant cormels is five times higher than that in dormant ones. Dark fixation is not due to microorganisms. It is temperature-dependent and can be measured stoichiometrically in vivo. The apex and base of the cormels accumulate more label than the central part. Dark fixation of both dormant and nondormant cormels is also promoted by imbibition in water. The fate of the labeled assimilates was followed by ion exchange chromatography. 相似文献
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Maximal l4CO 2-fixation in spinach occurs in the middle of thepalisade mesophyll [Nishio et al. (1993) Plant Cell 5: 953],however, ninety percent of the blue and red light is attenuatedin the upper twenty percent of a spinach leaf [Cui et al. (1991) Plant Cell Environ. 14: 493]. In this report, we showed thatgreen light drives 14CO 2-fixation deep within spinach leavescompared to red and blue light. Blue light caused fixation mainlyin the palisade mesophyll of the leaf, whereas red light drovefixation slightly deeper into the leaf than did blue light. 14CO 2-fixation measured under green light resulted in less fixationin the upper epidermal layer (guard cells) and upper most palisademesophyll compared to red and blue light, but led to more fixationdeeper in the leaf than that caused by either red or blue light.Saturating white, red, or green light resulted in similar maximal 14CO 2-fixation rates, whereas under the highest irradiance ofblue light given, carbon fixation was not saturated, but itasymptotically approached the maximal 14CO 2-fixation rates attainedunder the other types of light. The importance of green lightin photosynthesis is discussed.
1Supported in part by grants from Competitive Research GrantsOffice, U.S. Department of Agriculture (Nos. 91-37100-6672 and93-37100-8855). 相似文献
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Kinetic properties of soybean net photosynthetic CO 2 fixation and of the carboxylase and oxygenase activities of purified soybean ( Glycine max [L.] Merr.) ribulose 1, 5-diphosphate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.39) were examined as functions of temperature, CO 2 concentration, and O 2 concentration. With leaves, O 2 inhibition of net photosynthetic CO 2 fixation increased when the ambient leaf temperature was increased. The increased inhibition of CO 2 fixation at higher temperatures was caused by a reduced affinity of the leaf for CO 2 and an increased affinity of the leaf for O 2. With purified ribulose 1,5-diphosphate carboxylase, O 2 inhibition of CO 2 incorporation and the ratio of oxygenase activity to carboxylase activity increased with increased temperature. The increased O 2 sensitivity of the enzyme at higher temperature was caused by a reduced affinity of the enzyme for CO 2 and a slightly increased affinity of the enzyme for O 2. The similarity of the effect of temperature on the affinity of intact leaves and of ribulose 1,5-diphosphate carboxylase for CO 2 and O 2 provides further evidence that the carboxylase regulates the O 2 response of photosynthetic CO 2 fixation in soybean leaves. Based on results reported here and in the literature, a scheme outlining the stoichiometry between CO 2 and O 2 fixation in vivo is proposed. 相似文献
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A system has been developed for the study of photosynthetic CO 2 fixation by isolated spinach chloroplasts at air levels of CO 2. Rates of CO 2 fixation were typically 20 to 60 micromoles/milligrams chlorophyll per hour. The rate of fixation was linear for 10 minutes but then declined to less than 10% of the initial value by 40 minutes. Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) levels remained unchanged during this period, indicating that they were not the cause for the decline. The initial activity of the RuBP carboxylase in the chloroplast was high for 8 to 10 minutes and then declined similar to the rate of CO 2 fixation, suggesting that the decline in CO 2 fixation may have been caused by deactivation of the enzyme. 相似文献
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Phospho enolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPc) catalyzes the primary fixation of CO 2 in Crassulacean acid metabolism plants. Flux through the enzyme is regulated by reversible phosphorylation. PEPc kinase is controlled by changes in the level of its translatable mRNA in response to a circadian rhythm. The physiological significance of changes in the levels of PEPc-kinase-translatable mRNA and the involvement of metabolites in control of the kinase was investigated by subjecting Kalanchoë daigremontiana leaves to anaerobic conditions at night to modulate the magnitude of malate accumulation, or to a rise in temperature at night to increase the efflux of malate from vacuole to cytosol. Changes in CO 2 fixation and PEPc kinase activity reflected those in kinase mRNA. The highest rates of CO 2 fixation and levels of kinase mRNA were observed in leaves subjected to anaerobic treatment for the first half of the night and then transferred to ambient air. In leaves subjected to anaerobic treatment overnight and transferred to ambient air at the start of the day, PEPc-kinase-translatable mRNA and activity, the phosphorylation state of PEPc, and fixation of atmospheric CO 2 were significantly higher than those for control leaves for the first 3 h of the light period. A nighttime temperature increase from 19°C to 27°C led to a rapid reduction in kinase mRNA and activity; however, this was not observed in leaves in which malate accumulation had been prevented by anaerobic treatment. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that a high concentration of malate reduces both kinase mRNA and the accumulation of the kinase itself. 相似文献
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Sugar beet leaves ( Beta vulgaris L.) infected with powdery mildew ( Erysiphe polygoni D.C.) show declining rates of net photosynthesis as the disease develops; relative to healthy controls, reductions of 35, 70, and 75% were observed at 9, 16, and 22 days after inoculation, respectively. A leaf gas exchange procedure in which an air stream flowed through the leaf showed that mesophyll conductance declined in parallel with photosynthesis in mildew-infected leaves. Viscous flow conductance of diseased leaves also declined over the same period suggesting that stomatal aperture was reduced. From the magnitude and time course of disease effects on stomatal aperture and mesophyll conductance, it appears that the effects at the mesophyll level were primarily responsible for mediating the decline in net photosynthesis. Changes in mesophyll conductance were closely correlated with reduced activity of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase on a leaf area basis. This decrease could be attributed to a reduction in the concentration of the enzyme, a reduction which was greater than the reduction in total soluble protein. The quantum efficiency of light use was also decreased by the disease. Mildew-infected leaves had quantum yields that were reduced, relative to healthy leaves, by 17 and 22% at 14 and 18 days after inoculation, respectively. 相似文献
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Illumination of a suspension of Chlamydomonas reinhardi causes an increase in the pH of the medium which is reversed in the dark. This pH change is a manifestation of CO 2 uptake in the light and its evolution in the dark. Simultaneous measurements of pH changes and oxygen evolution reveal that the photosynthetic coefficient approaches one. 相似文献
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Washed whole chloroplasts of Spinacia oleracea isolated and assayed in a tris (hydroxymethyl aminomethane)-HCl buffered sucrose solution exhibited low dark CO 2 fixing activity, whereas washed whole chloroplasts isolated in the same buffer but assayed in that buffer without sucrose exhibited much greater dark CO 2 fixing activity. The lowered activity could be attributed to the impermeability of the chloroplast membrane to ribose-5-phosphate or adenosine triphosphate. The preservation of the integrity of the chloroplast membrane, as reflected by its impermeability to either or both of the abovementioned compounds, was measured by the fixation of 14CO 2 into acid-stable products in the presence of ribose-5-phosphate and adenosine triphosphate by the whole chloroplast as compared with fixation by the chloroplast extract. An effect (i.e., apparent resistance to the passage of ribose-5-phosphate or adenosine-5-triphosphate into the chloroplast) similar to, but less pronounced than, that produced by the presence of sucrose in the isolation medium was observed upon the addition of MnCl 2 or CaCl 2 to the buffered sucrose isolation medium. The addition of KCl enhanced slightly the effect produced by addition of sucrose alone to the isolation medium. The presence of MgCl 2 in the isolation medium, however, either caused the chloroplasts to become leaky or more fragile since more of the activity of the carboxylative phase enzymes appeared in the cytoplasm. When a mixture of all of the metal ions was added to the buffered sucrose suspending medium, the chloroplasts exhibited the same response observed with MgCl 2 alone. The addition of ethylene diaminetetraacetate or dithiothreitol appeared to alter the permeability of the chloroplast membrane nonspecifically when the assay was conducted in the absence of sucrose. Specific activities (μmoles CO 2 fixed/mg chlorophyll × hr) as high as 329.6 have been observed for dark fixation by chloroplasts. The phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity in the chloroplasts was only one-seventh that of ribulose diphosphate carboxylase. The phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase activity in the cytoplasm was 5 times that of the chloroplasts. 相似文献
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The role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in photosynthesis in the C 3 plant Nicotiana tabacum has been probed by measurement of the 13C content of various materials. Whole leaf and purified ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase are within the range expected for C 3 plants. Aspartic acid purified following acid hydrolysis of this ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase is enriched in 13C compared to whole protein. Carbons 1-3 of this aspartic acid are in the normal C 3 range, but carbon-4 (obtained by treatment of the aspartic acid with aspartate β-decarboxylase) has an isotopic composition in the range expected for products of C 4 photosynthesis (−5‰), and it appears that more than half of the aspartic acid is synthesized by phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase using atmospheric CO 2/HCO 3−. Thus, a primary role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in C 3 plants appears to be the anapleurotic synthesis of four-carbon acids. 相似文献
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The aquatic filamentous cyanobacteria Anabaena oscillarioides and Trichodesmium sp. reveal specific cellular regions of tetrazolium salt reduction. The effects of localized reduction of five tetrazolium salts on N(2) fixation (acetylene reduction), CO(2) fixation, and H(2) utilization were examined. During short-term (within 30 min) exposures in A. oscillarioides, salt reduction in heterocysts occurred simultaneously with inhibition of acetylene reduction. Conversely, when salts failed to either penetrate or be reduced in heterocysts, no inhibition of acetylene reduction occurred. When salts were rapidly reduced in vegetative cells, CO(2) fixation and H(2) utilization rates decreased, whereas salts exclusively reduced in heterocysts were not linked to blockage of these processes. In the nonheterocystous genus Trichodesmium, the deposition of reduced 2,3,5-triphenyl-2-tetrazolium chloride (TTC) in the internal cores of trichomes occurs simultaneously with a lowering of acetylene reduction rates. Since TTC deposition in heterocysts of A. oscillarioides occurs contemporaneously with inhibition of acetylene reduction, we conclude that the cellular reduction of this salt is of use in locating potential N(2)-fixing sites in cyanobacteria. The possible applications and problems associated with interpreting localized reduction of tetrazolium salts in cyanobacteria are presented. 相似文献
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Leaves of maize ( Zea mays L.) and sugar beet ( Beta vulgaris L.) were enclosed in an illuminated chamber in air for 30 min after which time 14CO 2 was released into the chamber. Two min after the 14CO 2 was released, the leaves were removed from the chamber, and small sections were cut from them. The sections were put in small wire baskets and frozen in isopentane cooled by liquid nitrogen. Approximately 1.5 min elapsed from the removal of the leaf from the illuminated chamber until the tissue was frozen. The tissue was freeze-dried, embedded in paraffin and the cellular location of the isotopic activity was determined by radiography of leaf cross sections. Isotopic activity in maize leaves was localized in bundle sheath parenchyma. In contrast, the label in sugar beet leaves was generally distributed in the mesophyll cells. The bundle sheath cells in maize contain specialized chloroplasts which appear to have a unique capacity to incorporate CO 2. Translocation from leaves of maize was 3-fold as rapid as from sugar beet leaves in the same environment. Low light intensity did not alter the distribution pattern of fixed CO 2. 相似文献
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Experiments were designed to determine the significance of dark CO 2 fixation in excised maize roots, carrot slices and excised tomato roots grown in tissue culture. Bicarbonate- 14C was used to determine the pathway and amounts of CO 2 fixation, while leucine- 14C was used to estimate protein synthesis in tissues aerated with various levels of CO 2. Organic acids were labeled from bicarbonate-14C, with malate being the major labeled acid. Only glutamate and aspartate were labeled in the amino acid fraction and these 2 amino acids comprised over 90% of the 14C label in the ethanol-water insoluble residue. Studies with leucine-14C as an indicator of protein synthesis in carrot slices and tomato roots showed that those tissues aerated with air incorporated 33% more leucine-14C into protein than those aerated with CO2-free air. Growth of excised tomato roots aerated with air was 50% more than growth of tissue aerated with CO2-free air. These studies are consistent with the suggestion that dark fixation of CO2 is involved in the growth of plant tissues. 相似文献
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