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Environmental and Stress Physiology

Comparison of Temperature Dependency of Tonoplast Proton Translocation between Plants Sensitive and Insensitive to Chilling ¹

The Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan

Proton transport activities in isolated tonoplast vesicles were measured as quenching of fluorescence of acridine orange. A marked difference in the temperature dependency of two types of tonoplast proton transports, i.e. ATP- and pyrophosphate-driven, was observed between two leguminous plants sensitive (mung bean, Vigna radiata [L.] Wilczek) and insensitive (pea, Pisum sativum L.) to chilling. In tonoplast vesicles isolated from hypcotyls of mung bean seedlings that were germinated for 3.5 days at 26°C in the dark, the total amount of fluorescence quenching at the steady state in both types of proton pumps, as a measurement of the inside-acidic pH gradient across the membrane vesicles, was markedly suppressed under temperatures below 10°C. In tonoplast vesicles isolated from epicotyls of pea seedlings, which were germinated for 7 days at 18° to 23°C in the dark, no suppression occurred in the formations of the pH gradient in either type of proton pump, even at 0°C. The cause of the low temperature-induced suppression of the proton pumps in mung bean tonoplasts seems to be not an increased permeability of the membrane vesicles to protons or accompanying anions and cations, but instead a marked inhibition in the catalytic activity of both enzymes under low temperatures.

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