Effects of light and temperature on the composition of epicuticular wax of barley leaves |
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Authors: | Birgitte Nødskov Giese |
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Institution: | Institute of Genetics, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2 A, DK-1353 Copenhagen K., Denmark |
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Abstract: | The amount of wax/cm2 on expanding primary leaves of Bonus barley depends on both the photo- and thermoperiods in which the seedlings are grown. With a temperature cycle of 15–10°, transfer of dark grown leaves to the light stopped leaf expansion and after 24 hr yielded 2·5 times more wax/cm2 than is characteristic for light grown leaves. This demonstrates that wax synthesis and extrusion is not directly correlated with leaf expansion. The relative amounts of the wax classes formed by the decarboxylation pathways (< 1%), the reductive pathways (89%) or only by elongation (10%) are the same in light and dark. Within the reductive pathways, however, light stimulates aldehyde formation. Both environmental parameters can strongly influence the chain length composition of the wax classes. In the light one chain length or one group of chain lengths dominates a given wax class. In the dark two prominent chain lengths or groups thereof are found. The major chain length in these two groups differs by two or more carbons. |
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Keywords: | Gramineae barley leaves epicuticular wax formation chemical composition influence of light and temperature |
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