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Kumar PP, Bender L, Thorpe TA. Activities of Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase and Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and C-Bicarbonate Fixation during in Vitro Culture of Pinus radiata Cotyledons. Plant Physiol. 1988;87(3):675-9doi: 10.1104/pp.87.3.675.
Kumar, P. P., Bender, L., & Thorpe, T. A. (1988). Activities of Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase and Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and C-Bicarbonate Fixation during in Vitro Culture of Pinus radiata Cotyledons. Plant physiology, 87(3), 675-9. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.87.3.675
Kumar, P P, et al. "Activities of Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase and Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and C-Bicarbonate Fixation during in Vitro Culture of Pinus radiata Cotyledons." Plant physiology vol. 87,3 (1988): 675-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.87.3.675
Kumar PP, Bender L, Thorpe TA. Activities of Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase and Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and C-Bicarbonate Fixation during in Vitro Culture of Pinus radiata Cotyledons. Plant Physiol. 1988 Jul;87(3):675-9. doi: 10.1104/pp.87.3.675. PMID: 16666206; PMCID: PMC1054819.
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Plant Physiol. 1988 Jul;87(3):675-9. doi: 10.1104/pp.87.3.675.

Activities of Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase and Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase and C-Bicarbonate Fixation during in Vitro Culture of Pinus radiata Cotyledons.

Plant physiology

P P Kumar, L Bender, T A Thorpe

Affiliations

  1. Plant Physiology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4.

PMID: 16666206 PMCID: PMC1054819 DOI: 10.1104/pp.87.3.675

Abstract

The activities of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBPC) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC), as indicators of autotrophic and nonautotrophic CO(2) fixation, were measured in excised cotyledons of Pinus radiata D. Don cultured for 21 days under shoot-forming (SF) and nonshoot-forming (NSF) conditions. The activity of RuBPC was found to increase in both SF and NSF cultures during the initial 5 days of culture. However, it leveled off from day 5 to day 10 and subsequently began to decrease until the end of the culture period under the SF conditions. In contrast, in the NSF cultures, RuBPC activity increased until day 15, when it was twofold higher than the maximum activity found in the SF cultures. An increase in PEPC activity of about 2.5 times the level of activity in freshly excised cotyledons was observed during the initial 5 days of culture under the SF conditions. PEPC activity began to decline after day 5 until it reached the level of activity seen in NSF cotyledons by day 15. In contrast, the activity of PEPC did not show any significant increase during the initial 10 days of culture under the NSF conditions. The K(m) (phosphoenolpyruvate) of PEPC from SF cotyledons was about 35% higher than that of NSF cotyledons. Cotyledons from two culture periods (days 5 and 15) were incubated for 15 seconds with NaH(14)CO(3). The label in the malate and asparatate fractions as a percentage of total (14)C incorporation was 3 times higher in the SF cotyledons than in the NSF cotyledons. A higher incorporation of (14)C into products of photosynthesis under the NSF conditions was also observed.

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