Ethylene metabolism in Pisum sativum L.: Kinetic parameters, the effects of propylene, silver and carbon dioxide and comparison with other systems

1984 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Evans ◽  
A. R. Smith ◽  
J. E. Taylor ◽  
M. A. Halo

Many physiologists have shown that, in general, carbon dioxide exercises a narcotic or toxic influence on vegetable protoplasm, temporarily or permanently affecting its activity, according to the partial pressure under which the gas acts. De Saussure (1), as long ago as 1804, stated that, in an atmosphere containing 8 per cent. Carbon dioxide, the growth of peas was less than in air; Böhm (2), in 1873, found that roots of Phaseolus multiflorus , after 17 days’ exposure, exhibited successively less elongation in partial pressures of 2, 5, 10, and 14 per cent. Carbon dioxide respectively, the temperature ranging between 17° and 19° C.; in each percentage named the growth was progressively less than in normal air. Montemartini (3), in 1892, working with roots of Pisum , found 7 per cent. and upwards to depress growthactivity. Chapin (4), in 1902, found the growth of roots of Pisum sativum and Vicia sativa to be diminished by 5 per cent., and arrested by 25 to 30 per cent. and upwards. Growth of the stem in the same plants was diminished by 15 per cent., and completely inhibited by 22 to 25 per cent. Experiments conducted by one of us, in conjunction with Professor Farmer, have proved that seedling peas may be kept in an atmosphere containing 20 per cent. carbon dioxide for 14 days without losing the power of renewed growth when placed in air. It is interesting to note that, in many of these plants, the plumule was destroyed, although the main root continued to grow, growth being carried on by shoots arising in the axils of the cotyledons. Brown and Escombe (5) grew plants in increased partial pressures of carbon dioxide. The anatomy of these plants was investigated by Farmer and Chandler (6), who found the growth of the aërial parts to be diminished, while root-growth was apparently unaltered. Ewart (7) observed that carbon dioxide stops protoplasmic steaming, but he does not state the percentage employed in his experiments.


1986 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. L. A. HOBBS

Compensation between carbon dioxide exchange rate per unit photosynthetic area (CER) and total photosynthetic area (TPA) of a plant was examined in field-grown pea (Pisum sativum L.). Eight near-isogenic lines of cv. Alaska, representing all possible phenotypes of the genes af (leaflets transformed to tendrils), st (reduced stipule area) and tl (tendrils transformed to leaflets), were examined. The CER was measured on the leaflets (AfAf), tendrils (afafTlTl) or minute leaflets (afaftltl). The TPA was significantly reduced by the st gene in AfAf types (normal leaflets) with an apparently associated increase in CER. The st gene also significantly reduced the TPA in afaf types but there was no associated increase in CER. Tendrils had a lower CER than normal leaflets and comprised 22% of the TPA of the semi-leafless (afafStStTlTl) type. Crosses were made between a semi-leafless pea and four normal-leafed types previously selected for high or low CER. The CER means (normal leaflets) of the F1 progeny showed variability which was related to parental values. This was also true for the CER means (tendrils) of the populations of semi-leafless F2 segregants showing that genetic variability for CER can exist in tendrils. In the F2, tendril CER was correlated negatively to stomatal resistance and positively to chlorophyll content and final shoot dry weight (biomass). Genetic improvement in CER may be important when a plant ideotype requires substantial reduction in TPA.Key words: Photosynthesis, pea, chlorophyll content, stomatal resistance, Pisum sativum


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