Photoinhibition under Atmospheric O2, the Activation State of RuBP Carboxylase and the Content of Photosynthetic Intermediates in Soybean and Wheat |
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Authors: | WARD DAVID A; DRAKE BERT G |
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Abstract: | Ward, D. A. and Drake, B. G. 1987. Photoinhibition under atmosphericO2, the activation state of RuBP carboxylase and the contentof photosynthetic intermediates in soybean and wheat.J.exp. Bot. 38: 19371948. Associations between photosynthesis, the activation state ofRuBP carboxylase and the contents of photosynthetic intermediateswere compared in soybean and wheat leaves before and after exposureto photoinhibitory treatments in the presence of atmosphericO2. Exposing attached leaves to a supra-saturating irradiance(3 800 µmol quanta m 2 s1) for 2 h in CO2-freeair decreased carboxylation efficiency and the light-saturatedphotosynthetic rate in air by approximately 50%. Exposure tothe photoinhibitory treatment for periods in excess of 2 h didnot cause a further decrease of photosynthesis in soybean. Althoughphotosynthesis was reduced, the initial and total (fully-activated)activities of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBPCase)in leaf extracts were unaltered in each species by the photoinhibitorytreatment. This was true for leaves sampled under both air andat a rate-limiting intercellular CO2 partial pressure (Ci) of75 µPa Pa1. The contents of ribulose l,5-bisphosphate(RuBP) and 3-phosphoglyceric acid (3-PGA) were reduced by thephotoinhibitory treatment in soybean leaves sampled in air andat a rate-limiting Ci, although the RuBP/3-PGA ratio was unaffected.The relative reduction of RuBP content in soybean leaves atrate-limiting C1 was similar to the corresponding reductionof carboxylation efficiency. For wheat,the relative reductionof RuBP content at rate-limiting Ci (19%) caused by thephotoinhibitory treatment was considerably less than the correspondingdecrease of carboxylation efficiency (49%).The RuBP/3-PGAratio of wheat was also increased significantly by the photoinhibitorytreatment The significance of these observations to the regulationof CO2-limited photosynthesis in leaves experiencing photoinhibitionunder atmospheric oxygen is discussed. Consideration is alsogiven to the previous contention that contemporary measurementsof initial activity in crude extracts may provide a spuriousindication of the amount of the enzyme-CO2-Mg2 + form of RuBPcarboxylase present in the leaf. Key words: Carboxylation efficiency, RuBP carboxylase, photoinhibition, RuBP, 3-PGA |
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