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Diurnal temperature-related variations in photosynthetic enzyme activities of two C4 species of Chenopodiaceae grown in natural environment

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The effects of the diurnal variations in ambient temperature on some C3 and C4 enzymes in the Salsola dendroides and Suaeda altissima species of Chenopodiaceae family were studied during the intensive vegetation period. Activities of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase (AsAT) were shown to decrease in both species in the afternoon and evening. The activity of the mitochondrial AsAT decreased in S. altissima, remained relatively constant in S. dendroides during the day. The activity of alanine aminotransferase was high in the S. dendroides species in the morning and evening and decreased in the S. altissima species by the evening. Glucose-6-phosphate activated PEPC in both species throughout the day. The study of the redox status-regulated C3 enzymes showed temperature-related increases in NADP-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in both plants, in fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase activity in the S. altissima species, and in NADP-MDH activity in the S. dendroides species in the afternoon.

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Abbreviations

AlAT:

alanine aminotransferase

AsAT:

aspartate aminotransferase

BS:

bundle sheath

Chl:

chlorophyll

EDTA:

ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid

FBPase:

fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase

Fv/Fm :

maximum quantum efficiency of PSII

Glu-6-P:

glucose-6-phosphate

M:

mesophyll

MDH:

malate dehydrogenase

ME:

malic enzyme

2-ME:

2-β-mercaptoetanol

NADPGAPDH:

NADP-glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase

PEP(C):

phosphoenolpyruvate (carboxylase)

Tris:

tris(hydroxymethyl) aminomethane

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    T. Y. Orujova, S. M. Bayramov, U. A. Gurbanova, H. G. Babayev, M. N. Aliyeva, N. M. Guliyev & Y. M. Feyziyev

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Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Science Development Foundation under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan–Grant No. EIF-2012-2(6)-39/19/3.

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Orujova, T.Y., Bayramov, S.M., Gurbanova, U.A. et al. Diurnal temperature-related variations in photosynthetic enzyme activities of two C4 species of Chenopodiaceae grown in natural environment. Photosynthetica 56, 1107–1112 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-018-0804-x

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