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Plant Physiology 61:929-932 (1978)
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Evaluation of the Light/Dark 14C Assay of Photorespiration

Tobacco Leaf Disk Studies with Glycidate and Glyoxylate 1

Raymond Chollet2

Central Research and Development Department, Experimental Station, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Delaware 19898

Preincubation of illuminated tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) leaf disks in glycidate (2,3-epoxypropionate) or glyoxylate inhibited photorespiration by about 40% as determined by the ratio of 14CO2 evolved into CO2-free air in light and in darkness. However, under identical preincubation conditions used for the light/dark 14C assays, the compounds failed to reduce photorespiration or stimulate net photosynthesis in tobacco leaf disks based on other CO2 exchange parameters, including the CO2 compensation concentration in 21% O2, the inhibitory effect of 21% O2 on net photosynthesis in 360 microliters per liter of CO2 and the rate of net photosynthetic 14CO2 uptake in air.

The effects of both glycidate and glyoxylate on the 14C assay are inconsistent with other measures of photorespiratory CO2 exchange in tobacco leaf disks, and thus these data question the validity of the light to dark ratio of 14CO2 efflux as an assay for relative rates of photorespiration (Zelitch 1968, Plant Physiol 43: 1829-1837). The results of this study specifically indicate that neither glycidate nor glyoxylate reduces photorespiration or stimulates net photosynthesis by tobacco leaf disks under physiological conditions of pO2 and pCO2, contrary to previous reports.

2 Present address: Laboratory of Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583.

1 Central Research and Development Department Contribution No. 2553.






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