Nicotine Biosynthetic Enzyme Activities in Nicotiana tabacum L. Genotypes with Different Alkaloid Levels 1
AUTOR(ES)
Saunders, Joseph W.
RESUMO
Young plants of five Nicotiana tabacum L. genotypes were examined for activity of nicotine biosynthetic enzymes. Genotypes near isogenic except at two loci each with two alleles controlling nicotine level were used in a comparison of the four homozygous allelic combinations producing high, high intermediate, low intermediate, and low nicotine levels in a “Burley 21” background. Putrescine N-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.53) and quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.19) activities in root tissue of these four genotypes were proportional to leaf nicotine level, whereas N-methylputrescine oxidase activity in root tissue differed in proportion and ranking. Quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase activities in leaf tissue were lower than in roots, but no differences were found among the four genotypes. The homozygous recessive alleles at either locus affect levels of all three enzyme activities examined in roots. Each locus seems to be involved in regulation of nicotine metabolism, but whether directly as a regulatory locus or indirectly through the metabolic product of a structural locus is not known.
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