Chloroplasts and the biosynthesis and catabolism of abscisic acid |
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Authors: | A K Cowan and Ian D Railton |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Plant Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa |
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Abstract: | Chloroplast preparations from the mesocarp ofPersea gratissima and from light-grown shoots ofPisum sativum were unable to synthesize abscisic acid (ABA) from mevalonolactone, mevalonic acid, or isopentenyl pyrophosphate. Similar plastid preparations transformed 2-14C]ABA into acidic products that were chromatographically similar to those generated byP. gratissima mesocarp slices and excised shoots ofP. sativum. Attempts to increase ABA catabolism in chloroplast preparations using sedimentation through Percoll to remove associated proteases also reduced the capacity for ABA catabolism, suggesting that such catabolism arose from contaminating, cytoplasmic enzymes. Both lincomycin and chloramphenicol inhibited the catabolism of ABA by excised shoots ofP. sativum but had little effect on either ABA biosynthesis or ABA catabolism in mesocarp fromP. gratissima. These processes were inhibited markedly by cycloheximide. |
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