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Metabolism and Enzymology

Selection and Characterization of Tobacco Plants with Novel O₂-Resistant Photosynthesis

Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, P. O. Box 1106, New Haven, Connecticut 06504

Plants were obtained with novel O₂-resistant photosynthetic characteristics. At low CO₂ (250-350 µL CO₂ L^–1) and 30°C when O₂ was increased from 1% to 21% to 42%, the ratio of net CO₂ uptake in O₂-resistant whole plants or leaf discs compared to wild type increased progressively, and this was not related to stomatal opening. Dihaploid plantlets regenerated from anther culture were initially screened and selected for O₂-resistant growth in 42% O₂/160 µL CO₂ L^–1 and 0.18% of the plantlets showed O₂-resistant photosynthesis. About 30% of the progeny (6 of 19 plants) of the first selfing of a fertile plant derived from a resistant dihaploid plant had O₂-resistant photosynthesis, and after a second selfing this increased to 50% (6 of 12 plants). In 21% O₂ and low CO₂, net photosynthesis of the resistant plants was about 15% greater on a leaf area basis than wild type. Net photosynthesis was compared in leaf discs at 30 and 38°C in 21% O₂, and at the higher temperature O₂-resistant plants showed still greater photosynthesis than wild type. The results suggest that the O₂-resistant photosynthesis described here is associated with a decreased stoichiometry of CO₂ release under conditions of rapid photorespiration. This view was supported by the finding that leaves of O₂-resistant plants averaged 40% greater catalase activity than wild type.

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