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Plant Physiology 66:628-631 (1980)
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Effect of Butyl 2-Hydroxy-3-Butynoate on Sunflower Leaf Photosynthesis and Photorespiration 1

Sudarsanam Doravari2 and David T. Canvin

Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada

Detached leaves and whole plants of sunflower were supplied with butyl 2-hydroxy-3-butynoate (BHB), a competitive inactivator of glycolate oxidase, to evaluate the possibility of inhibiting photorespiration and increasing photosynthetic efficiency. In all treatments in vivo and in vitro, BHB inhibited glycolate oxidase. With partially purified glycolate oxidase from spinach leaves, the apparent Ki for BHB was 13.2 micromolar.

Low concentrations of BHB neither decreased photorespiration nor increased net photosynthesis. At higher concentrations, either a proportional decrease in photosynthesis and photorespiration or an inhibition of net photosynthesis greater than photorespiration was observed. CO2 evolution in BHB-treated leaves was O2-sensitive and was derived from recent photosynthate. BHB inhibited photosynthesis in 2, 21, or 50% O2 but the ratio of the rates of photosynthesis in these O2 concentrations was the same as in control leaves. BHB treatment resulted in a stimulation of dark respiration.

As photosynthesis, photorespiration, and dark respiration were all affected by BHB, the action of BHB on whole leaf metabolism appears to be complex. Substantial inhibition of photorespiration was accompanied by inhibition of photosynthesis and increases in photosynthesis were not observed.

2 Present address: Department of Botany, S.V. University College, Tirupati 517 502 A.P. India.

1 This work was supported in part by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada.






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