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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Leaf Phosphate Status, Photosynthesis, and Carbon Partitioning in Sugar Beet

I. Changes in Growth, Gas Exchange, and Calvin Cycle Enzymes

Department of Plant and Soil Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Sugar beets (Beta vulgaris L. cv F58-554H1) were cultured hydroponically for 2 weeks in growth chambers with two levels of orthophosphate (Pi) supplied in half strength Hoagland solution. Low-P plants were supplied with 1/20th of the Pi supplied to control plants. With low-P treatment, the acid soluble leaf phosphate and total leaf P decreased by about 88%. Low-P treatment had a much greater effect on leaf area than on photosynthesis. Low-P decreased total leaf area by 76%, dry weight per plant by 60%, and the rate of photosynthesis per area at light saturation by 35%. Low-P treatment significantly decreased the total extractable activity of phosphoglycerate kinase (by 18%) and NADP-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (by 16%), but did not decrease the total activities of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) carboxylase (RuBPCase) and ribulose-5-phosphate kinase. Low-P treatment decreased the initial activities of three rate-limiting Calvin cycle enzymes, but had no effect on the initial activity of RuBPCase. Furthermore, low-P treatment significantly increased the total extractable activities of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (by 61%), fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (by 53%), and transketolase (by 46%). The results suggest that low-P treatment affected photosynthetic rate through an effect on RuBP regeneration rather than through RuBPCase activity and that the changes in Calvin cycle enzymes with low-P resulted in an increased flow of carbon to starch.

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