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Growth and development of winter rye at cold-hardening temperatures results in thylakoid membranes with increased sensitivity to low concentrations of osmoticum
Authors:N P A Huner  W G Hopkins
Abstract:Chloroplasts developed at cold-hardening (5°C) and non-hardening temperatures (20°C) were compared with respect to the stability of photosynthetic electron transport activities, the capacity to produce and maintain a H+ gradient and the capacity fat photophosphorylation as a function of resuspension in the presence or absence of osmoticum. The results for electron transport indicate that whole chain, photosystem I and pfaotosystem II activities in non-hardened chloroplast thyalkoids were unaffected by resuspension in the presence of high or low osmoticum. In contrast, the same electron transport activities in cold-hardened chloroplast thylakoids exhibited a 3- to 4-fold decrease in activity when resuspended in the presence of low osmoticum. Impairment of electron transport through photosystem II of cold-hardened thylakoids resuspended in the presence of low osmoticum was supported by room temperature fluorescence induction kinetics. Since the presence of Mn2+ partially overcame this inhibition, it is concluded that this osmotically-induced inhibition of PSII activity in cold-hardened chloroplast thylakoids may, in part, be due to damage to the H2O-splitting side of photosystem II. Both the initial rate and the maximum capacity for cyclic photophosphorylation were significantly inhibited in cold-hardened as compared to non-hardened thylakoids upon resuspension in the presence of low concentrations of osmoticum. This was correlated with an inability of the cold-hardened chloroplast thylakoids to maintain a significant transrnembrane H+ gradient. The results indicate that cold-hardened thylakoid membranes required an osmotic concentration (0.8 M) twice as high as non-hardened thylakoids (0.4 M) to produce the same initial rate of H+ uptake. In addition, the capacity to produce a proton gradient in cold-hardened thylakoids was less stable than that in non-hardened thylakoids regardless of the osmotic concentration tested. It is concluded that development of rye thylakoid membranes at low temperature results in a differential sensitivity to low osmoticum and thus extreme caution should be exercised when comparing the structure and function of isolated thylakoids developed under contrasting thermal regimes.
Keywords:Photophosphorylation  photosystem I  photosystem II  proton gradients              Secale cereale
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