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Metabolism and Enzymology

Inheritance of the Reversal of O₂ Response of Photosynthesis in a Flaveria linearis Mutant ¹

Department of Agronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

A mutant plant of Flaveria linearis Lag. expresses reversed O₂ response of photosynthesis (i.e. its apparent photosynthesis is stimulated at atmospheric O₂ levels). The objectives of this study were to determine the genetic inheritance of this trait and to investigate the biochemical mechanism for its expression. The mutant plant was crossed reciprocally with a plant of the closely related species Flaveria oppositifolia (DC.) Rydb. and also with another plant of F. linearis. Data on O₂ inhibition of apparent photosynthesis were analyzed on F₂ and F₃ progeny from these F₁ hybrids. In addition, test crosses (mutant x F₁ hybrid) and S₁ progeny from the mutant plant were also analyzed. All F₁ hybrids expressed inhibition of apparent photosynthesis and their progeny segregated in acceptable 3:1 and 13:3 (normal:reversed) ratios. There was little effect of environment on expression of the reversed O₂ response. Selected F₂ plants and the original mutant plant produced progeny in normal:reversed ratios which indicated the trait is controlled by two major genes which show dominant and recessive epistasis. Plants with greater than 20 nanomoles per gram fresh weight per minute of fructose-1, 6-bisphosphatase activity in the cytosol had normal O₂ response of photosynthesis. However, when plants had less than 20 nanomoles per gram fresh weight per minute of this enzyme activity in the cytosol, the O₂ was normal in some and reversed in others. It is proposed that low fructose bisphosphatase activity in the cytosol is controlled by a recessive gene (fbp). A second dominant gene is speculated to be hypostatic to the normal fructose bisphosphatase gene and controls the expression of an unknown factor that determines whether O₂ response of AP is reversed in the presence of fbp (i.e. when fructose bisphosphatase activity is low).

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