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Oscillations of photosynthesis induced in leaves of Vicia faba L. were accompanied by oscillations not only in the pH of the chloroplast stroma, but also by pH oscillations in the cytosol and in the vacuole of leaf mesophyll cells. Cytosolic pH oscillations were in phase with stromal oscillations, but antiparallel to vacuolar pH oscillations. During maxima of photosynthesis, the cytosolic pH exhibited maxima and the vacuolar pH minima. Vacuolar acidification is interpreted to be the result of energized proton transport from the cytosol into the vacuole. Since the ratio of dihydroxyacetone phosphate to phosphoglycerate is maximal during the peaks of photosynthesis (Stitt et al., 1988, J. Plant Physiol. 133, 133–143; Laisk et al., 1991, Planta 185, 554–562), while the activity of NADP-malic dehydrogenase is highest during minima of photosynthesis (Scheibe and Stitt, 1988, Plant Physiol. Biochem. 26, 473–481), the present data indicate in agreement with earlier observations (Yin et al., 1991, Planta 184, 30–34) that light-dependent cytosolic energization is brought about by the oxidation of dihydroxyacetone phosphate rather than of malate. They also indicate that the over-reduction of the electrontransport chain observed during minima of photosynthesis is relieved not predominantly by oxaloacetate reduction and export of the resulting malate from the chloroplasts but by another reaction, presumably oxygen reduction.
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- CDCF:
-
5-(and 6-)carboxy-2′,7′-dichlorofluorescein
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Siebke, K., Yin, ZH., Raghavendra, A.S. et al. Vacuolar pH oscillations in mesophyll cells accompany oscillations of photosynthesis in leaves: Interdependence of cellular compartments, and regulation of electron flow in photosynthesis. Planta 186, 526–531 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00198032
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