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Excess copper effect on growth, chloroplast ultrastructure, oxygen-evolution activity and chlorophyll fluorescence in Glycine max cell suspensions

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dc.creator Bernal Ibáñez, María
dc.creator Ramiro Pascual, María Victoria
dc.creator Cases, Rafael
dc.creator Picorel Castaño, Rafael
dc.creator Yruela Guerrero, Inmaculada
dc.date 2008-02-11T11:15:46Z
dc.date 2008-02-11T11:15:46Z
dc.date 2006-06
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:00:05Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:00:05Z
dc.identifier Physiologia Plantarum 127: 312-325 (2006)
dc.identifier 0031-9317
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2909
dc.identifier 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00641.x
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2909
dc.description 48 Pags.- 3 Tabls.- 6 Figs. The definitive version is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1399-3054
dc.description The influence of excess copper on soybean photosynthetic cell suspensions was investigated. The cell suspensions grew well in the presence of 5–20 µM CuSO4 and developed tolerance to even higher levels of CuSO4 (i.e. up to 50 µM), indicating that copper was not toxic to the cells at that high concentrations. Cu-adapted cell suspensions grew faster than the control in limiting light conditions and had higher content of chlorophyll per dry weight of cells. Copper was accumulated within the cells, and this event was accompanied by (1) increased oxygen evolution activity; (2) increased number of chloroplasts per cell, smaller chloroplasts, increased thylakoid stacking and grana size; (3) higher fluorescence emission of photosystem II antenna complexes and (4) stimulation of plastocyanin protein synthesis compared with untreated cells. Microanalysis of cross-sections revealed an increase of copper content in chloroplasts as well as vacuole, cytoplasm and cell wall in Cu-adapted cells. No antagonist interaction between copper and iron uptake took place in these cell suspensions. On the other hand, copper at subtoxic concentrations stimulated oxygen evolution activity in thylakoids from control cells, but this event did not take place in those from Cu-adapted ones. Furthermore, the loss of activity by copper inhibitory action at toxic concentrations was two-fold slower in thylakoids from Cu-adapted cells compared with the control ones. The data strongly indicate that copper plays a specific positive role on photosynthesis and stimulates the growth and the oxygen evolution activity in soybean cell suspensions.
dc.description M. Bernal is recipient of a predoctoral fellowship from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (I3P Programme financed by the European Social Fund). This work was supported by the Aragón Government (Grant P015/2001) to I. Yruela, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Spain (BMC2002-00031) to R. Picorel, and it has been done within GC DGA 2002 programme of the Gobierno de Aragón.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Blackwell Publishing
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3054.2006.00641.x
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Copper stress
dc.subject Soybean
dc.subject Chloroplast
dc.subject Cell suspension
dc.title Excess copper effect on growth, chloroplast ultrastructure, oxygen-evolution activity and chlorophyll fluorescence in Glycine max cell suspensions
dc.type Artículo


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