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... During chlorophyll degradation, large amounts of the isoprenoid alcohol phytol are released. The pathway of phytol catabolism has been studied in humans, because chlorophyll is part of the human diet, but little is known for plants. In humans, phytanoyl‐CoA derived from phytol is degraded via α‐oxidation by phytanoyl‐CoA hydroxylase (PAHX) and 2‐hydroxy‐phytanoyl‐CoA lyase (HPCL). Arabidopsis cont ...
... Bacopa monnieri is well recognized medicinal herb for promoting mental strength, longevity, life energy, and sleep. Conservation and cultivation of overexploited species like Brahmi are the key factors for the restoration of diversity. The diversity in species can be implied to screen the elite accessions. Morphological, chemical, and genetic parameters of five elite accessions were studied and ev ...
... Natural occurring metal-tolerant microbial population have replaced conventional expensive metal remediation approach since the last few years. The present study focuses on investigating the potential of a copper-tolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacterial strain Brevundimonas diminuta MYS6 for Cu bioremediation, plant growth promotion and Cu uptake in Helianthus annuus L. Box-Behnken Design of ...
... Chlorophyll (Chl) is made up of the tetrapyrrole chlorophyllide and phytol, a diterpenoid alcohol. The photosynthetic protein complexes utilize Chl for light harvesting to produce biochemical energy for plant development. However, excess light and adverse environmental conditions facilitate generation of reactive oxygen species, which damage photosystems I and II (PSI and PSII) and induce their tu ...
acclimation; alcohols; amino acids; barley; biochemical pathways; chlorophyll; fluorescence; gas exchange; genes; genotype; heat; heat stress; heat tolerance; inositol 3-alpha-galactosyltransferase; metabolites; metabolomics; oats; organic acids and salts; photosynthesis; raffinose; spring; spring wheat; synthesis; temperature; transpiration; varieties; water use efficiency; winter
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... The aim of the present work was to better understand the molecular mechanisms of heat acclimation processes in cereals. A large number of winter and spring wheat, barley and oat varieties were grown under either control conditions (22/20°C) or under a mild heat stress (30°C) that induce the acclimation processes. The temperature dependence of chlorophyll a fluorescence induction and gas exchange p ...
Vitis vinifera; acidity; alcohols; brix; chlorophyll; climate change; ecophysiology; gas exchange; irrigation; leaves; odors; pH; phenology; photosynthesis; stomatal conductance; temperature; thiols; water potential; water stress; Italy
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... Climate change has an important impact on the phenological phases of the grapevine. The consequences are directly reflected in quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the grapes. In fact, there is a decrease in the skin-to-pulp ratio (therefore a decrease in production with an excess of alcohol) and a consequent reduction in the aromatic potential of white grapes (lowering of the quality o ...
... Respatie. D. W, Yudono P, Purwantoro A, Trisyono Y.A. 2019. The potential of Cosmos sulphureus flower extract as a bioherbicide for Cyperus rotundus. Biodiversitas 20: 3568-3574. Cosmos (Cosmos sulphureus Cav.) flower is recognized as natural source of bioherbicide compounds for several weeds. The purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus L.) is an important weed, and this research was aimed to determine ...
... We have previously reported that Ricinus communis is a good candidate for the phytoremediation of Cd- and Zn-contaminated soil and for fuel production. In this study, changes in the activity of antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, SOD; catalase, CAT; and guaiacol peroxidase, POD) and the contents of chlorophyll and malondialdehyde (MDA) in R. communis leaves under Cu, Zn, and Cd stress were ...
Virgílio G. Uarrota; Cristiane Segatto; Ana Paula L. Voytena; Marcelo Maraschin; Linda Vásquez Avila; Daniele C. S. Kazama; Cileide M. M. Coelho; Clovis Arruda Souza
... Aiming to assess the impact of water deficit on agronomic, photosynthetic and biochemical parameters of two soybean cultivars during reproductive stage, soybean plants were subjected to three gravimetric humidity levels. Water deficit decreased the leaf relative water content, leaf dry matter content, dried pod weight, grain weight, chlorophyll activity, linolenic acid, pentadecanoid and palmitole ...
... Plant’s glutathione peroxidase-like (GPXL) enzymes are thiol-based peroxidases catalysing the reduction of H2O2 or hydroperoxides to water or alcohols using reduced glutathione (GSH) or thioredoxin as an electron donor. Arabidopsis thaliana possess eight isoenzymes having different roles in redox-dependent processes. AtGPXL5 is a poorly known plasma membrane associated enzyme. We have investigated ...
... Grapes are one of the most important fruits because of their economic and nutritional benefits, and grapevines are widely cultivated in arid and semi-arid areas. Therefore, it is critical to study the mechanism by which grapevines respond to water stress. In this research, micro-morphological and metabolomic analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of water stress on stomatal morphology and ...
... During leaf senescence and fruit ripening, chlorophyll is degraded in a multistep pathway into linear tetrapyrroles called phyllobilins. A key feature of chlorophyll breakdown is the removal of the hydrophobic phytol chain that renders phyllobilins water soluble, an important prerequisite for their ultimate storage in the vacuole of senescent cells. Chlorophyllases had been considered for more tha ...
... Iodination of protoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester using phenyliodine bis(trifluoroacetate) (PIFA) and I₂ was studied. Iodine added to both the C3- and C8-vinyl groups equally to afford the iodohydrin or iodoether in the presence of water or alcohol, respectively. Any meso-hydrogen atom was not substituted by an iodine atom under these conditions, although both the vinyl group and one of the meso posi ...
Vitis; absorption; alcohols; anthocyanins; carbon dioxide; cell death; chlorophyll; color; harvesting; heat stress; leaves; phenolic compounds; ripening; sap flow; shade; small fruits; soil; sugars; temperature; transpiration; vines; water content; water potential; wines
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... BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The impact of high temperature on grapevine function is predicted to be a serious problem in our warming climate. We studied the impact of shading on some aspects of vine physiology, berry cell death and other components of berry development and on the resultant wines in order to understand grapevine physiology and the ripening process in shaded conditions and to assess shadin ...
... In this short paper, it is demonstrated that autoxidation (free radical induced oxidation) of the chlorophyll phytyl side chain in senescent phytoplanktonic cells and higher plants constitutes a potential source of isophytol (3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadec-1-en-3-ol) in the environment. To explain the formation of this isoprenoid alcohol, mechanisms involving the formation of the precursor 3-peroxy- ...
absorption; alcohols; chemical reactions; chemical structure; chlorins; chlorophyll; methylene chloride; wavelengths
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... Methyl 3-acyl-pyropheophorbides-a were prepared by modification of naturally occurring chlorophyll-a through Grignard or Barbier reactions of the 3-formyl group and successive Ley–Griffith or Dess–Martin oxidations of the resulting secondary alcohols. The semi-synthetic 3-acyl-chlorins gave intense visible bands in dichloromethane and the absorption spectra were dependent on the 31-substituents. T ...
Calvin cycle; Haematococcus pluvialis; Pluvialis; alcohols; amines; astaxanthin; biomarkers; cell biology; chlorophyll; cluster analysis; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; glutamic acid; least squares; metabolites; metabolomics; models; nucleic acids; organic acids and salts; pigmentation; principal component analysis; proline; sucrose; tricarboxylic acid cycle
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... The growth of Haematococcus pluvialis exposed to high light was divided into three pigmentation phases: a green phase, a yellow phase and a red phase. Classification was based on astaxanthin and chlorophyll content and cell morphology. Metabolic profiling of the three pigmentation phases was performed. A total of 81 metabolites were identified and quantified by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry ...
... To determine the characteristics and potential practical applications of glossy cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.) mutants, five different glossy mutants were studied. The amount of epicuticular wax covering the mutant leaves was only approximately 30% that of the wild-type (WT) leaves. The wax crystals of WT plants were columnar and linear, while they were granular and rod-shaped in the ...
alcohols; beans; biosynthesis; chlorophyll; esterification; etiolation; high performance liquid chromatography; hydrogenation; irradiation; leaves; pigments; scotophase; white light
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... The accumulation of esterfied chlorophyll a (Chl a) in etiolated bean leaves was determined during a dark period of 60 minutes after 1 minute irradiation with white light. The separation of the pigments esterified with geranylgeraniol (GG), dihydrogeranylgeraniol (DHGG), tetrahydrogeranylgeraniol (THGG) and phytol (P) was performed by HPLC. The last step for chlorophyll a biosynthesis is confirmed ...
Alexei Solovchenko; Sergei Pogosyan; Olga Chivkunova; Irina Selyakh; Larisa Semenova; Elena Voronova; Pavel Scherbakov; Ivan Konyukhov; Konstantin Chekanov; Mikhail Kirpichnikov; Elena Lobakova
... Possibilities of alcohol distillery wastewater (ADW) bioremediation with a new Chlorella sorokiniana from White Sea cultivated in semi-batch mode in a high-density photobioreactor monitored on-line via chlorophyll fluorescence were investigated. Upon inoculation of the ADW, a stable alga-bacterial consortium was formed. A decrease in chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the ADW from 20000 to ca. 1500mg ...