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A relationship between height genes (dw locus) and perioxidase was demonstrated by extracting and determining peroxidase specific activity in internode tissue from different height isogenic lines of sorghum Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. Tall plants (2 dwarf) had less peroxidase per gram tissue than their short counterparts (3 dwarf); their F1 offspring internodes were closer but had more peroxidase than the tall parent. Peroxidase in the F2 offspring was inversely related to their height and followed a simply-inherited pattern similar to that for height.
Among different tissues analyzed, peroxidase concentration in roots was higher than in leaves and internodes, whole internode higher than in pith, and seed embryo higher than in endosperm. Peroxidase activity of nonviable seeds was negligible.
Isoelectric focusing provided a more detailed peroxidase zymogram than did gel electrophoresis. Differences in peroxidase bands among tall and short parental plants, F1 and F2 segregating groups all appear to be reflected by intensity differences rather than by position or number of bands.
Activities of nitrate reductase and acid phosphatase did not correlate with height. That finding provides a control and suggests that peroxidase activity is not associated with height by chance but may have a functional relationship.
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Communicated by H.F. Linskens
Contribution no. 1628-j, Dept. of Agronomy and no. 188-j, Dept. of Biochemistry, and no. 962-j, Dept. of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas 66506.
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Liang, G.H., Lee, K.C., Chung, K. et al. Regulation of internodal lenght by peroxidase enzymes in grain sorghum. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 50, 137–146 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276808
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