Development of Photochemical Activity and the Appearance of the High Potential Form of Cytochrome b-559 in Greening Barley Seedlings
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 51 (6) , 1117-1126
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.51.6.1117
Abstract
The development of photochemical activity during the greening of dark-grown barley seedlings (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Svalöfs Bonus) was studied in relation to the formation of the high potential form of cytochrome b-559 (cytochrome b-559(HP)). Photosynthetic oxygen evolution from leaves was detected at 30 minutes of illumination. The rate of oxygen evolution per gram fresh weight of leaf was as high at 2 to 2.5 hours of greening as at 24 hours or in fully greened leaves. On a chlorophyll basis, the photosynthetic rate at 90 minutes of greening was 80-fold greater than the rate at 45 hours. It is concluded that the majority of photosynthetic units are functional at an early stage of greening, and that chlorophyll synthesis during greening serves to increase the size of the units.Plastids showed substantial photochemical oxygen evolution after a seedling greening time of 1 hour. However, a comparison of the relative activity of leaves and plastids at 2 hours and 24 hours of greening suggests that there was some inactivation of greening plastids during isolation. Appreciable photosystem I activity was observed as early as 15 minutes of greening.The synthesis of cytochrome b-559(HP) during greening does not correlate with the onset of oxygen evolution. Cytochrome b-559(HP) was absent from etioplasts and in most preparations of 2-hour plastids. The average amount of cytochrome b-559(HP) at 2 hours of greening was well below the level needed to provide 1 molecule of the carrier for each functional photosynthetic chain. The results suggest that cytochrome b-559(HP) is not essential for oxygen evolution. Cytochrome f, cytochrome b(6), and the low potential form of cytochrome b-559 were present in the etioplast. There was little increase in the levels of these cytochromes during 24 hours of greening.Keywords
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