Influence of Varying CO2 and Orthophosphate Concentrations on Rates of Photosynthesis, and Synthesis of Glycolate and Dihydroxyacetone Phosphate by Wheat Chloroplasts 1

AUTOR(ES)

Usuda, Hideaki

RESUMO

Intact chloroplasts of wheat (Triticum aestivum) were isolated from mesophyll protoplasts. With decreasing concentrations of bicarbonate from 10 to 0.3 millimolar (pH 8.0), the optimal concentration of orthophosphate (Pi) for photosynthetic O2 evolution decreased from a value of 0.1 to 0.2 millimolar to 0 to 0.025 millimolar. The extremely low Pi optimum for photosynthesis at the low bicarbonate levels of 0.3 millimolar was increased by lowering the O2 concentration from 253 (21% gas phase) to 72 micromolar (6% gas phase). The relative amount of glycolate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) synthesized under high and low levels of bicarbonate and varying levels of Pi was determined. At low levels of bicarbonate, glycolate was the main product, whereas at high bicarbonate levels, DHAP was the main product. Most of the DHAP and glycolate was found in the extrachloroplastic fraction.

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