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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 105, Issue 4 1059-1066, Copyright © 1994 by American Society of Plant Biologists

ENVIRONMENTAL AND STRESS PHYSIOLOGY

Ultraviolet-B-Responsive Anthocyanin Production in a Rice Cultivar Is Associated with a Specific Phase of Phenylalanine Ammonia Lyase Biosynthesis

V. S. Reddy, K. V. Goud, R. Sharma and A. R. Reddy
School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500134, India

Seedlings of 17 rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars were classified on the basis of anthocyanin pigmentation into three groups: an acyanic group with 9 cultivars, a moderately cyanic group with 5 cultivars, and a cyanic group with 3 cultivars. Seedlings of the cyanic group were deep purple in color, possessing copious amounts of anthocyanin in shoots. Sunlight (SL)-mediated anthocyanin and phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) induction in a cyanic cultivar, purple puttu, was compared with an acyanic cultivar, black puttu. A brief exposure of dark-grown purple puttu seedlings to SL induced anthocyanin formation during a subsequent dark period with a peak at 24 h. The magnitude of SL-mediated anthocyanin induction is age dependent, the 4-d-old seedlings being the most responsive to SL. The anthocyanin induction in purple puttu seedlings is mediated exclusively by the ultraviolet-B (UV-B) component of SL. The SL-triggered anthocyanin induction was reduced by about 30% by a terminal far-red light pulse and was restored by a red light pulse, indicating the role of phytochrome in modulation of anthocyanin level. The SL-mediated induction of PAL showed two peaks, one at 4 h and the other at 12 h. Whereas the first PAL peak (4 h) was induced by phytochrome and was seen in both cultivars, the second PAL peak (12 h) was inducible by UV-B only in the cyanic purple puttu cultivar.


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