Effect of nitrogen nutrition on endosperm protein synthesis in wild and cultivated barley grown in spike culture

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Plant Physiology; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.87.2.523· OSTI ID:5400105

Corke, H; Atsmon, D ^[1]

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1. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel)

In normal growth conditions, total protein percent, in the endosperm at maturity in barley cultivar Hordeum vulgare L. cv Ruth was about 14%, whereas in an accession of wild barley, Hordeum spontaneum Koch line 297, it was about 28%. Spike culture experiments were conducted to ascertain whether there were basic differences between the two genotypes under conditions of widely different nitrogen supply. Spikes of each genotype were grown from 8 to 25 days after flowering in in vitro culture in a growth medium containing 0 to 4 grams per liter nitrogen supplied as NH{sub 4}NO{sub 3}. Spikes were pulse-labeled at intervals from 12 to 24 days after flowering with 3.7 megabecquerel of ({sup 3}H)leucine to determine relative rates of synthesis of hordein-1 and hordein-2 polypedtides. At low nitrogen levels Ruth had a lower protein content than 297, but at increasing nitrogen levels its protein content increased rapidly and reached a maximum (35%) higher than 297 (30%). The relative contribution of the hordein fraction to total protein increased mainly with time, and hordein-1 to total hordein increased mainly with nitrogen level, in both genotypes. There appeared to be no fundamental limitations in the capacity of Ruth to accumulate protein: 297 appears to have a greater basal level of nitrogen availability under normal conditions.

• OSTI ID: 5400105
• Journal Information: Plant Physiology; (USA), Vol. 87:2; ISSN 0032-0889
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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