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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Metabolic Acclimation to Anoxia Induced by Low (2-4 kPa Partial Pressure) Oxygen Pretreatment (Hypoxia) in Root Tips of Zea mays

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Station de Biologie Végétale, Pont-de-la-Maye, Bordeaux 33170, France

Young intact plants of maize (Zea mays L. cv INRA 508) were exposed to 2 to 4 kilopascals partial pressure oxygen (hypoxic pretreatment) for 18 hours before excision of the 5 millimeter root apex and treatment with strictly anaerobic conditions (anoxia). Hypoxic acclimation gave rise to larger amounts of ATP, to larger ATP/ADP and adenylate energy charge ratios, and to higher rates of ethanol production when excised root tips were subsequently made anaerobic, compared with root tips transferred directly from aerobic to anaerobic media. Improved energy metabolism following hypoxic pretreatment was associated with increased activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), and induction of ADH-2 isozymes. Roots of Adh1^– mutant plants lacked constitutive ADH and only slowly produced ethanol when made anaerobic. Those that were hypoxically pretreated acclimated to anoxia with induction of ADH2 and a higher energy metabolism, and a rate of ethanol production comparable to that of nonmutants. All these responses were insensitive to the presence or absence of NO₃^–. Additionally, the rate of ethanol production was about 50 times greater than the rate of reduction of NO₃^– to NO₂^–. These results indicate that nitrate reductase does not compete effectively with ADH for NADH, or contribute to energy metabolism during anaerobic respiration in this tissue through nitrate reduction. Unacclimated root tips of wild type and Adhl^– mutants appeared not to survive more than 8 to 9 hours in strict anoxia; when hypoxically pretreated they tolerated periods under anoxia in excess of 22 hours.

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