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Klosson RJ, Krause GH. Freezing injury in cold-acclimated and unhardened spinach leaves : II. Effects of freezing on chlorophyll fluorescence and light scattering reactions. Planta. 1981;151(4):347-52doi: 10.1007/BF00393289.
Klosson, R. J., & Krause, G. H. (1981). Freezing injury in cold-acclimated and unhardened spinach leaves : II. Effects of freezing on chlorophyll fluorescence and light scattering reactions. Planta, 151(4), 347-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00393289
Klosson, R J, and Krause, G H. "Freezing injury in cold-acclimated and unhardened spinach leaves : II. Effects of freezing on chlorophyll fluorescence and light scattering reactions." Planta vol. 151,4 (1981): 347-52. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00393289
Klosson RJ, Krause GH. Freezing injury in cold-acclimated and unhardened spinach leaves : II. Effects of freezing on chlorophyll fluorescence and light scattering reactions. Planta. 1981 Apr;151(4):347-52. doi: 10.1007/BF00393289. PMID: 24301977.
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Planta. 1981 Apr;151(4):347-52. doi: 10.1007/BF00393289.

Freezing injury in cold-acclimated and unhardened spinach leaves : II. Effects of freezing on chlorophyll fluorescence and light scattering reactions.

Planta

R J Klosson, G H Krause

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  1. Botanisches Institut der Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, D-4000, Düsseldorf 1, Germany.

PMID: 24301977 DOI: 10.1007/BF00393289

Abstract

Leaves from cold-acclimated and from unhardened spinach plants (Spinacia oleracea L.) were subjected to a freezing/thawing procedure in which varying minimum temperatures were reached. Subsequently, the chlorophyll fluorescence induction signal (Kautsky phenomenon) and the light-induced apparent absorbance changes at 535 nm (light-scattering changes indicative of the proton gradient, and absorbance changes induced by the membrane potential) of the leaves were studied to obtain information on the course and mechanism of frost damage to the photosynthetic apparatus. Membrane energization as indicated by these signals was related in a complex way to the inactivation of CO2 assimilation due to the progressing impact of freezing: In the absence of CO2, the maximum energization of the thylakoids was progressively decreased. According to altered fluorescence signals, the electron transport system was affected in parallel. In the presence of CO2, energization frequently appeared increased when the leaves had been partially damaged, i.e., when the CO2 assimilation rates were lowered. The results suggest that the primary frost injury in chloroplasts of intact leaves consists of an inhibition of the energy conserving photosynthetic processes and, in addition, of a partial inactivation of the carbon reduction cycle. The pattern of freezing injury was no different in frost-hardened and unhardened leaves.

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