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Plant Physiology 76:478-482 (1984)
© 1984 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Acid Phosphatases and Seed Shriveling in Triticale 1

Te May Ching, Delila M. Thompson and Robert J. Metzger

Crop Science Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon 97331

Seed shriveling in the man-made intergeneric hybrid, triticale (x Triticosecale Wittmack) appears to be related to increased activity of endosperm acid phosphatases including para-nitrophenyl phosphatase, ATPase, ADPase, phosphatidic phosphatase, and glucose-1-phosphatase that occur specifically at later stages of seed development. These hydrolases may reduce endogenous substrates for starch synthesis, deplete energy supply for maintenance and biosynthesis of tissue growth, and deassemble membrane structures resulting in a partially filled endosperm and localized necrosis. Electrophoretic isozyme patterns of endosperm acid phosphatase exhibited distinctive differences between lines producing plump and shriveled seeds indicating a divergent role of the isozymes in these two different seed conformations.

1 Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Paper No. 7110.






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