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Stimulation of Glutathione Synthesis in Photorespiring Plants by Catalase Inhibitors ¹

Department of Botany, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979

The effect of various herbicides on glutathione levels in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.), and corn (Zea mays L.) was examined. Illumination of excised barley, tobacco, and soybean plants for 8 hours in solution containing 2 millimolar aminotriazole (a catalase inhibitor) resulted in an increase in leaf glutathione from 250 to 400 nanomoles per gram fresh weight to 600 to 1800 nanomoles per gram fresh weight, depending on the species tested. All of this increase could be accounted for as oxidized glutathione. Between 25 and 50% of this oxidized glutathione was reduced when plants were darkened for 16 hours, but there was no significant decline in total glutathione. Another catalase inhibitor, thiosemicarbazide, was as effective as aminotriazole in elevating glutathione in soybean but was less effective in barley and tobacco. Glyphosate, an inhibitor of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, had no significant effect on glutathione levels in any of the plants examined. Whereas methyl viologen (paraquat), which is a sink for photosystem I electrons, caused oxidation of leaf glutathione in all of the plants but did not increase the total amount of glutathione present.

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