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Plant Physiology 91:1063-1068 (1989)
© 1989 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Metabolic Acclimation to Hypoxia in Winter Cereals 1

Low Temperature Flooding Increases Adenylates and Survival in Ice Encasement

Christopher J. Andrews and M. Keith Pomeroy

Plant Research Centre, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa K1A OC6, Ontario, Canada

Cold hardened seedlings of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em Thell) show an hypoxic hardening response: an exposure to low temperature flooding increases the tolerance of plants to a subsequent ice encasement exposure. Seedlings of winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) do not show such a response in similar experimental conditions. During ice encasement, there are general declines in adenylate energy charge (AEC), total adenylates and ATP:ADP ratios in the crown tissues of two winter wheat cultivars, and a winter barley, but rates of decline are faster in the barley. When the ice period is preceded by low temperature flooding of the whole plant, levels of the adenylate components are raised significantly in the wheats, and to a lesser extent in the barley. The survival of plants in ice preceded by flooding is related to the increased initial level of adenylates at the onset of the ice encasement stress, and the maintenance of higher levels of adenylates and ATP in the early stages of ice encasement as a result of accelerated rates of glycolysis. Higher survival of both winter wheat and barley plants during ice encasement in the light is also associated with significantly higher levels of AEC and adenylates in the early stages of ice encasement.

1 Plant Research Centre Contribution No. 1199.




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