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The study deals with the changes in metabolic processes of galactose breakdown in tobacco mosaic virus infected tobacco tissues treated with a 1.0 × 10−4 M solution of 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid). At the time of maximum virus reproduction the plants infected exhibited a considerable increase in galactokinase and galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase activities. The activity of both galactose metabolizing enzyme systems investigated was not affected markedly by 2,4-D, but its increase was induced preferentially by virus biosynthesis.
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Makovcová, O., Šindelář, L. The changes in metabolic utilization of galactose in tobacco mosaic virus infected tobacco plants treated with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Biol Plant 23, 462–464 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880598
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880598