Lipid metabolism in ageing leaves of dark-grown barley seedlings |
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Authors: | Allan K Stobart Salah A El-Hussein John Hammond |
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Institution: | Department of Botany, The University, Bristol BS8 1UG, U.K. |
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Abstract: | The rapid senescence of the etiolated leaves of dark-grown barley seedlings in the dark is accompanied by the loss of those lipids associated with the plastids. The linolenate content of the plastid glycerolipids rapidly decreased whereas it tended to increase in the extraplastidic phospholipids. Kinetin treatment slowed down the loss of the plastid lipids and their constituent fatty acids. The hormone treatment brought about increased linolenate, particularly in phosphatidylcholine and monogalactosyldiacylglycerol. The senescing leaf attempts to adapt to ageing by increased membrane synthesis and/or membrane repair. Kinetin appears to control the sequential desaturation of oleate to linolenate. |
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Keywords: | Gramineae barley leaves senescence kinetin glycerolipids fatty acids desaturation linoleate linolenate |
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