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- Title
Photosynthetic electron transport in tobacco leaves infected with tobacco mosaic virus.
- Authors
Van Kooten, O.; Meurs, C.; van Loon, L. C.
- Abstract
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Samsun) plants inoculated with different strains of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) inducing mosaic symptoms of widely varying severity were studied with in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence. This method was used to deduce photosynthetic electron transport efficiency in relation to symptom expression. The quantum yields of photosystem II (PS II) electron transport rate were significantly diminished in virus strains inducing loss of chlorophyll. The reduction in young mosaic‐diseased leaves appeared to be due in part to a reduction in the fraction of open reaction centers, whereas in older leaves exhibiting less pronounced symptoms the reduction was mainly caused by a reduced efficiency of capture of excitation energy of open PS II reaction centers. Upon infection with any of the five virus strains PS II seemed to be irreversibly damaged in the inoculated leaves and the ones directly above, indicative of a possible increased susceptibility to photoinhibition in these leaves (Somersalo and Krause 1989) even when no symptoms were apparent. Symptom expression did not appear to be related to the influence of the virus on PS II activity, because the severest effects occurred in the inoculated leaves, which either remained symptomless or developed slight yellowing only. This study demonstrates the usefulness or modulated chlorophyll fluorescence measurements for the investigation of plant‐virus interactions. It is particularly important when visual symptoms are absent.
- Subjects
ELECTRON transport; TOBACCO; TOBACCO mosaic virus; CHLOROPHYLL; ELECTRONS; FLUORESCENCE
- Publication
Physiologia Plantarum, 1990, Vol 80, Issue 3, p446
- ISSN
0031-9317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1399-3054.1990.tb00066.x