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Plant Physiology 58:411-416 (1976) © 1976 American Society of Plant Biologists Synthesis of Suberin during Wound-healing in Jade Leaves, Tomato Fruit, and Bean Pods 1a Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163
The structure and composition of the aliphatic monomers of the polymeric material deposited during wound-healing of tomato fruit, bean pods, and Jade leaves were examined. After removing the cuticle-containing layer of tissue, the wounds were healed for 14 days and the resulting surface layer was excised, lyophilized, solvent-extracted, and depolymerized by hydrogenolysis with LiAlH4 or transesterified with BF3 in methanol. The products obtained by the chemical depolymerization were subjected to thin layer chromatography and combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The major aliphatic components isolated from the hydrogenolysate of the wound polymer produced by tomato fruit were hexadecane-1,16-diol and octadec-9-ene-1,18-diol, which were shown to be derived from a 1:1 mixture of
2 Author to whom inquiries should be made. 1 This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant BMS 74-09351. Scientific Paper No. 4581, Project 2001, College of Agriculture Research Center, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99163. This article has been cited by other articles:
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-hydroxy and dicarboxylic acids of the appropriate chain length by LiAlH4 reduction. Also identified in the wound polymer were long chain (>C20) fatty acids and alcohols. This monomer composition is typical of suberin polymers and is in sharp contrast with that of the cutin of tomato fruit which contains dihydroxy C16 acid as the major aliphatic component. The hydrogenolysis of the wound material from bean pods gave octadecene-1,18-diol as the major aliphatic component, and smaller amounts of hexadecane-1,16-diol and long chain alcohols. Similar treatment of the normal cuticular tissue of these pods gave hexadecane triol, as well as C16 and C18 alcohols. Hydrogenolysis of wound material from the Jade leaves gave octadecene-1,18-diol, C16 and C22 diols, as well as alcohols from C16 to C26, whereas similar treatment of the cutin-containing tissue from these leaves gave C16 triol as the major aliphatic component. Thus, the major aliphatic monomers of the polymeric material deposited during the wound-healing of bean pods and Jade leaves are very similar to those of suberin, although the natural protective polymer of these tissues is cutin. From these results, it is concluded that suberization is a fundamental process involved in wound-healing in plants, irrespective of the chemical nature of the natural protective polymer of the tissue. 
