Dark starvation and chloroplast function
- 1 January 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Planta
- Vol. 99 (3), 222-229
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00386840
Abstract
Mature spinach plants were held in the dark for several days. The photochemical activities and the activity of some enzymes related to NADP reduction were follwed in the chloroplasts isolated from leaves after dark starvation. Photosystem-II, measured by reduction of DPIP, remained stable during 6 days of darkening. The decrease of NADP reduction which appeared after 2 days of starvation was found to be due to protein autolysis rather than inactivation of the photosystems. The stability of photosystem-I was demonstrated by reactivation of NADP reduction after addition of purified ferredoxin and ferredoxin-NADP-reductase. After 4 days of starvation the restoration of the NADP reduction required in addition another, low-molecular-weight factor. From the isolation procedure and from its properties this factor is assumed to be identical with FRS. However, even in the presence of FRS only half of the total activity is restored after 7 days. The activity of the NADP-reducing system is restored in vivo when plants kept for 7 days in the dark are again illuminated.Keywords
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