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Soluble and thylakoid membrane proteins of jasmonic acid (JA)-treated and salt-stressed barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seedlings were investigated using 15% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis. High JA concentrations induced marked quantitative and qualitative changes in polypeptide profiles concerning mainly the proteins with approximately equal mobility, as in NaCl-stressed plants. The most obvious increase in thylakoid polypeptide band intensity was at 55 to 57 kilodaltons (kD). The relative share of some polypeptides with apparent molecular masses above 66 kD and of polypeptides with lower molecular masses in the region of 20.5 to 15 kD was enhanced. At the same time, one new band at 31 to 31.5 kD was well expressed at 25 and 250 micromolar JA concentrations and became discernible in the 100 micromolar NaCl-treated plants. The intensity of some polypeptides of soluble proteins (molecular masses of 60, 47, 37, 30, and 23.4 kD) increased with increasing JA concentration, whereas the intensities of other polypeptide bands (55, 21.4, and 15 kD) decreased. Enhanced levels of 60-, 47-, 34-, and 30-kD polypeptides and reduced levels of 55- and 15-kD polypeptides were present in NaCl-treated plants. The appearance of one new polypeptide, of 25.1 kD, was observed only in NaCl-treated plants. At 100 millimolar NaCl, an eightfold increase in proline content was observed while at 250 micromolar JA, the proline content was threefold over the control. It is hypothesized that exogenously applied jasmonates act as stress agents. As such, they provoke alterations in the proline content and they can modulate typical stress responses by induction of stress proteins.
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The kinetics characteristics of oxygen evolution in thylakoids prepared from barley (Horeum vulgare) seedlings grown in the presence of different jasmonic acid (JA) concentrations were studied. In comparison to control preparations, 100 micromolar JA-treated samples show an inhibition of the Hill activity (46%) and of O(2)-flash yields to above 70%. A damping in the oscillations of O(2) yields, induced by a flash train, increases with increasing growth regulator concentration. After these treatments, the value of the total number of oxygen-evolving centers (S(0) + S(1)), estimated according to the Kok scheme, shows a considerable decrease. In 100 micromolar JA-treated preparations, the turnover half-time of S(1)-states increases and the stability of the S(2)- and S(3)-states decreases.
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In vivo effect of abscisic acid (ABA) on photosynthetic oxygen evolution was investigated in barley chloroplasts. The most important kinetic parameters of O2-producing reactions were changed. The results show inhibition of the O2-flash yields at ABA concentrations of 10 µmol/l and 100 µmol/l and an increase in the degree of damping of the oscillations. ABA has a marked effect on the distribution of the oxygenevolving centers in S0 and S1 states and on sum of the centers (S0+S1) estimated according to the Kok model. In addition, the amplitude and the shape of the initial oxygen burst under continuous illumination are also significantly altered. At a concentration of 100 µmol/l, ABA strongly inhibits Hill reaction activity measured by DCPIP reduction. The results cannot be explained by the hypothesis of socalled "stomata effect". On the other hand, no effects were observed on the investigated parameters in experiments involving ABA applied in vitro to isolated chloroplasts. It is hypothesized that ABA disrupts the granal chloroplasts structure and raises the degree of participation of the cooperative mechanism of O2-evolution connected with the functioning of PS IIß centers in the stroma situated thylakoids.
