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- Title
The alternative oxidase: A cyanide-resistant respiratory pathway in higher plants.
- Authors
Siedow, James N.; Berthold, Deborah A.
- Abstract
This article presents information on cyanide-resistant respiration that has been observed in a number of angiosperms like pea, corn, wheat, etc. The most striking example of cyanide resistant respiration occurs in the thermogenic spadix tissue of certain members of the family Araceae. The cyanide-resistant oxygen uptake occurs in the inner mitochondrial membrane and seems to constitute a pathway "alternative" to the main cyanide-sensitive cytochrome pathway by which electrons from reduced tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle substrates flow to the terminal electron acceptor, i.e., the oxygen.
- Subjects
ANGIOSPERMS; ARACEAE; CYTOCHROMES; KREBS cycle; RESPIRATION in plants; PLANT physiology
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 1986, Vol 66, Issue 3, p569
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3054.1986.tb05968.x