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Invertase Activity and the Kinetin-Stimulated Enlargement of Detached Radish Cotyledons ¹

Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsyvlania 16802, Department of Horticulture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsyvlania 16802

Cytokinin treatment is known to promote expansion of light-grown excised radish (Raphanus sativus L. cv Crimson Giant) cotyledons. This expansion, at least in part, seems to be related to an increased accumulation of osmotically active reducing sugars. Kinetin treatment did not cause increased levels of isocitrate lyase activity over the controls, but stimulated increased levels of two invertase forms, designated types I and II. Type I was soluble and type II was insoluble after homogenization in 10 millimolar tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane-HCl (pH 7.0). Both types were soluble after homogenization in 300 millimolar NaCl. At low salt concentration, type II was retained on a diethylamioethyl-cellulose column and type I was not. Type II was then eluted from the column at high salt concentration. Types I and II exhibited pH optima of 5.3 and 4.3, Michaelis constants of 4.96 and 1.23 millimolar sucrose, and molecular weights of 65,000 and 57,000 daltons, respectively. The kinetin promotion of reducing sugar accumulation may be related to increased levels of the two invertase forms, but is probably not a result of direct cytokinin-stimulated glyoxysomal activity.

¹ Received for publication January 3, 1983 as contribution No. 14, Department of Horticulture. Authorized for publication as paper No. 6579 in the journal series of The Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station.