Sucrose Metabolism in Tubers of Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.): Effects of Sink Removal and Sucrose Flux on Sucrose-Degrading Enzymes.

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  • H A Ross
  • H V Davies
چکیده

Excision of developing potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers from the mother plant, followed by storage at 10 degrees C, resulted in a rapid, substantial decrease in sucrose synthase activity and considerable increases in hexose content and acid invertase activity. A comparison of the response of three genotypes, known to accumulate different quantities of hexoses in storage, showed that both sucrose synthase activity and the extent to which activity declined following excision were similar in all cases. However, there was significant genotypic variation in the extent to which acid invertase activity developed, with tubers accumulating the highest hexose content also developing the highest extractable activity of invertase. Similar effects were found in nondetached tubers when growing plants were maintained in total darkness for a prolonged period. Furthermore, supplying sucrose to detached tubers through the cut stolon surface prevented the decline in sucrose synthase activity. Maltose proved to be ineffective. Western blots using antibodies raised against maize sucrose synthase showed that the decline in sucrose synthase activity was associated with the loss of protein rather than the effect of endogenous inhibitors. Although there were indications that maintaining a flux of sucrose into isolated tubers could prevent the increase in acid invertase activity, the results were not conclusive.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Plant physiology

دوره 98 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1992