Investigations on the adaptability of maize lines and hybrids to low temperature and cadmium

Acta Agronomica Hungarica

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-196

  Szalai, G ^a   Pal M ^a   Horvath E ^a   Janda, T ^a   Paldi E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Alternative respiration; Antioxidant enzymes; Chilling tolerance; Chlorophyll a fluorescence induction; Ion leakage; Maize; Phytochelatin; Phytochelatin synthase; S methylmethionine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646230735     PISSN: 02380161     EISSN: 15882527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AAgr.53.2005.2.7     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ádám, A., Bestwick, C. S., Barna, B., Mansfeld, J. W. (1995): Enzymes regulating the accumulation of active oxygen species during the hypersensitive reaction of bean to Pseudmonas syringae pv. Phaseolica. Planta, 197, 240-249.
2. Chen, Z., Ricigliano, J. R., Klessig, D. F. (1993): Purification and characterization of a soluble salicylic acid binding protein from tobacco. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 90, 9533-9537.
3. Chen, J., Zhou, J., Goldsbrough, P. B. (1997): Characterization of phytochelatin synthase from tomato. Physiol. Plant, 101, 165-172.
4. Clemens, S., Kim, E. J., Neumann, D., Schroder, J. I. (1999): Tolerance to toxic metals by a gene family of phytochelatin synthases from plants and yeast. EMBO J., 18, 3325-3333.
5. Cobbet, C. S. (2000): Phytochelatins and their roles in heavy metal detoxification. Plant Physiol., 123, 825-832.
6. Daniel, P., Gyori, Z. (2000): A kadmium hatása a kukorica fejlodésére. (Effect of cadmium on the development of maize.) Növénytermelés, 49, 405-412.
7. 2 and catalase during thermotolerance induced by salicylic acid or heat acclimation in mustard seedlings. Plant Physiol., 116, 1351-1357.
8. Dethier, M., Jaeger, B. D., Barszczak, E., Dufour, J. P. (1991): In vivo and in vitro investigation of the synthesis of S-methylmethionine during barley germination. J. Am. Soc. Brew. Chem., 49, 31-37.
9. Genty, B., Briantais, J. M., Baker, N. R. (1989): The relationship between the quantum yield of photo synthetic electron transport and quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 990, 87-92.
10. Giovanelli, J., Mudd, S. .H., Datko, A. H. (1980): Sulfur amino acids in plants. pp. 453-505. In: Miflin, B. J. (ed.), The Biochemistry of Plants. Vol.5, Academic Press, New York.
11. Grill, E., Lofller, S., Winnacker, E. L., Zenk, M. H. (1989): Phytochelatins, the heavy-metal-binding peptides of plants, are synthetized from glutathione by a specific γ-glutamylcysteine dipeptidyl transpeptidase (phytochelatin synthase). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 86, 6838-6842.
12. Gyetvai, E., Rácz, I., Lásztity, D., Szalai, G., Janda, T., Marton, L., Horváth, E., Páldi, E. (2002): Effect of S-methylmethionine as protective compound on the metabolism of agricultural plants at low temperature. Acta Biol. Szegediensis, 46, 95-96.
13. 2 detoxifying enzymes in green and greening barley seedlings under cadmium stress. Plant Sci., 160, 1085-1093.
14. Janda, T., Szalai, G., Tari, I., Páldi, E. (1999): Hydroponic treatment with salicylic acid decreases the effect of chilling injury in maize (Zea mays L.) plants. Planta, 208, 175-180.
15. Lásztity, D., Rácz, I., Szalai, G., Páldi, E. (1997): Effect of S-methylmethionine on the metabolism of cultivated plants. pp. 165-178. In: Sowinski, P., Zagdanska, B., Aniol, A., Pithan, K. (eds.), Crop Development for the Cool and Wet Regions of Europe. OOPEC, Luxembourg.
16. Moller, J. M., Berczi, A., van der Plas, H. W., Lambers, H. (1988): Measurements of the activity and capacity of the alternative pathway in intact plant tissues: Identification of problems and possible solutions. Physiol. Plant., 72, 642-649.
17. Nakano, Y., Asada, K. (1987): Purification of ascorbate peroxidase in spinach chloroplasts, its inactivation in ascorbate depleted medium and reactivation by monodehydroascorbate radical. Plant Cell Physiol, 28, 131-140.
18. Rhoads, D. M., Mcintosh, L. (1992): Cytochrome and alternative pathway respiration in tobacco. Effects of salicylic acid. Plant Physiol, 103, 877-883.
19. Smith, I. K., Vierheller, T. L., Thorne, C. A. (1988): Assay of glutathione reductase in crude tissue homogenates using 5,5' dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid). Anal. Biochem., 175, 408-413.
20. Szalai, G., Janda, T., Páldi, E., Szigeti, Z. (1996): Changes in the fatty acid unsaturation after hardening in wheat chromosome substitution lines with different cold tolerance. J. Plant Physiol., 148, 378-383.
21. van Kooten, O., Snel, J. F. H. (1990): The use of chlorophyll fluorescence nomenclature in plant stress physiology. Photosynth. Res., 25, 147-150.