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Analysis of the Light-harvesting Pigment-Protein Complex of Wild Type and a Chlorophyll-b-less Mutant of Barley ¹

^a United States Department of Agriculture, Science and Education Administration, Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

we have compared chloroplast lamellae isolated from a chlorophyll-b-less mutant and wild type barley (Hordeum vulgare). The results demonstrate that: (a) one of the two major polypeptides comprising the lightharvesting complex (LHC) is present in the chlorophyll-b-less mutant; (b) higher cation concentrations are required to maintain grana stacks in the mutant; and (c) cation effects on excitation energy distribution are present in the chlorophyll-b-less mutant but are reduced in amount and are dependent on higher concentrations of cations.

We interpret these data to support the concept that the LHC mediates cation-induced grana stacking and cation regulation of excitation energy distribution between photosystems I and Ii in chloroplast lamellae. A partial LHC complement in the mutant alters the quantitative cation requirement for both phenomena, but not the over-all qualitative response.

¹ Supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant PCM 77-18953.