The effect of reduced water potential on soybean mitochondria |
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Authors: | Flowers T J Hanson J B |
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Affiliation: | University of Illinois, Departments of Agronomy and Botany, Urbana, Illinois 61801. |
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Abstract: | The respiration of excised hypocotyls and of isolated hypocotyl mitochondria from soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr., var. Wayne] was determined in various concentrations of sucrose and potassium chloride. Hypocotyl oxygen uptake declined with increasing solute concentration; no specific effects of either solute were apparent. Mitochondrial state III respiration was strongly inhibited as the solute concentrations were raised and there was in addition a specific inhibitory effect of the salt. State IV respiration, however, was unaffected by the presence of osmoticum. ADP/O ratios were also unaffected, except at high potassium chloride concentrations (470 mm). The primary effect of solutes was thus to limit the rate of substrate oxidation. |
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