The Correlated Appearance of Prolamellar Bodies, Protochlorophyll(ide) Species, and the Shibata Shift during Development of Bean Etioplasts in the Dark 1

AUTOR(ES)

Klein, Shimon

RESUMO

The structure and physiology of the etioplast was investigated in developing primary leaves of 3- to 9-day-old dark-grown bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. Red Kidney) seedlings. Increase in total protochlorophyll(ide) content followed that of leaf fresh weight. In 3- to 4-day-old bean leaves more than 50% of the protochlorophyll(ide) is in the form of protochlorophyll(ide) 628, which is nontransformable by light. Most of the transformable pigment is protochlorophyll(ide) 635, with smaller amounts of protochlorophyll(ide) 650. During leaf development from the 3rd to the 7th day phototransformable protochlorophyll(ide) with an absorbance maximum at 650 nm accumulates faster than nontransformable protochlorophyll(ide) or protochlorophyll(ide) 635. This increase in protochlorophyll(ide) 650 is correlated with the formation and enlargement of prolamellar bodies.

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