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- Title
Sucrose-cleaving enzymes and carbohydrate pools in Lilium longiflorum floral organs.
- Authors
Ranwala, Anil P.; Miller, William B.
- Abstract
The activities of soluble invertase (EC 3.2.1.26), cell wall invertase (EC 3.2.1.26) and sucrose synthase (EC 2.4.1.13) were determined in Easter lily (Liliurn longiflorum Thunb. cv. Nellie White) floral organs during flower development. These enzyme activities were correlated with dry weight gains and carbohydrate pools to investigate the importance of their expression in maintaining sink strength of floral organs. In the early stages of flower bud development, anthers exhibited the highest rates of dry weight gain and activity of sucrolytic enzymes. Once anther growth was completed, the dry weight gain of tepal, filament, stigma and style increased with a concomitant increase in hexose concentrations and invertase activity. Although all three enzymes capable of catalyzing sucrose cleavage were present in every flower organ of L. longifiorum, soluble invertase was the predominant enzyme in all flower organs except stigma where cell wall invertase dominated. Soluble invertase activity was highly correlated with dry weight gain in most of the flower organs.
- Subjects
EASTER lily; LILIES; SUCROSE; PLANT enzymes; PLANT proteins; PLANT physiology
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 1998, Vol 103, Issue 4, p541
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1399-3054.1998.1030413.x