ISSN:
1432-2048
Keywords:
Cell cytokinin culture
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Compartmentation (hormones)
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Cytokinin (metabolism)
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Dihydrozeatin
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Vacuole (hormone storage)
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract [3H]Dihydrozeatin supplied to photoautotrophically growing cell suspension cultures of Chenopodium rubrum was rapidly taken up and metabolized by the cells. The predominant metabolites in extracts of the cells were [3H]dihydrozeatin-O-glucoside and [3H]dihydrozeatin riboside-O-glucoside. Both these compounds could be shown to be compartmented within the vacuole, whereas [3H]dihydrozeatin and [3H]dihydrozeatin riboside, which were both present to a minor extent in cell extracts, were both present to a minor extent in cell extracts, were localized predominantly outside the vacuole. Analysis of the culture medium at the end of the 36-h incubation period showed that there had been an efflux of [3H]dihydrozeatin metabolites out of the cells. Whereas [3H]dihydrozeatin riboside was found to be the major extracellular [3H]dihydrozeatin metabolite, the O-glucosides of neither this compound nor [3H]dihydrozeatin could be detected in the medium. The differential compartmentation of [3H]dihydrozeatin metabolites found with the C. rubrum suspension-culture system is discussed with respect to possible mechanisms governing the metabolism of cytokinins in plants cells.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00394494
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