Long- and short-term effects of decreased sink demand on carbohydrate levels and photosynthesis in wheat leaves
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) ears were removed to investigate long-term regulation of photosynthesis by sink demand at ambient CO2 and 22 °C. The CO2 level was also increased to 660 μmol mol-1 and temperature was lowered to 5 °C to examine short-term responses of photosynthesis to low sink demand. Sink removal inhibited photosynthesis and increased leaf levels of glucose, fructose and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP), and the glucose-6-phosphate (G6P)/fructose-6-phosphate (F6P) and RuBP/3-phosphoglycerate (PGA) ratios under growth conditions, but had no effect on the activity and activation state of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco) either under growth or short-term conditions, suggesting an inhibition of photosynthesis by decreased in vivo catalysis of Rubisco. Photosynthesis increased similarly in eared and earless shouts after a rise in CO2 concentration, and the ratio of triose-phosphates (glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate, TP) to PGA was similar or higher for removed than intact ears, suggesting that feedback inhibition of photosynthesis was not caused by a limitation of ATP synthesis in chloroplasts. Under short-term conditions (660 μmol mol-1 CO2, 5 °C), TP and RuBP levels and the TP/PGA and TP/RuBP ratios were increased by sink removal, indicating an additional limitation of photosynthesis by the rate of RuBP regeneration.
Main Authors: | Morcuende, Rosa, Pérez Pérez, Pilar, Martínez-Carrasco, Rafael, Martín del Molino, I., Sánchez de la Puente, L. |
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Format: | artículo biblioteca |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1996-10
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Subjects: | Carbohydrates, Carbon metabolism, Feedback, Gramineae, Photosynthesis, Rubisco, Sink regulation, Triticum aestivum L., Wheat, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/271250 |
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