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Effects of Leaf Chilling on Thylakoid Functions, Measured at Room Temperature, in Cucumis sativus L. and Oryza sativa L.
Authors:Terashima  Ichiro; Huang  Lin-Ke; Osmond  C Barry
Institution:Plant Environmental Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University P.O. Box 475, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia
Abstract:Photosynthetic functions in leaves of cucumber (Cucumis sativusL.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.) were examined before and aftervarious chilling treatments. Cucumber leaves lost the capacityfor the photosynthetic oxygen evolution after chilling at 0°Cin the dark for 48 h. Thyla-koids isolated from such leaveswere not able to reduce dichloroindophenol (DCIP), but the additionof diphenylcarbazide (DPC), an electron donor to PS II, restoredthe ability to reduce DCIP, indicating that the site of damageis in the water-splitting machinery of PS II. In moderate light (500 jumol quanta m–2s–1), chillingof cucumber leaves at 5°C for 5 h was sufficient to inducethe complete loss of the capacity for photosynthetic oxygenevolution. Electron transport rates measured in thylakoids wereunaltered, but thylakoids were totally permeable to protons.Since the addition of dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) restoredcoupling and the capacity for proton uptake, the primary siteof damage was deduced to be in the ATPase. In rice, both chilling treatments had barely any effect on thylakoidfunctions, although some negative effects was apparent in photosynthesisin leaves. 1Present address: Department of Botany, Faculty of Science,University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 Japan. 2Present address: Department of Botany, Duke University, Durham,NC 27706, U.S.A. (Received January 11, 1989; Accepted June 12, 1989)
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