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Changes in respiration, activity of cytochrome oxidase and ascorbic oxidase and in BSMV content were investigated on winter wheat plants cv. ’Kaštická osinatka‘ after application of growth stimulating and growth inhibiting concentrations of 2,4-D. It has been found that the rate of respiration is almost exclusively dependent on the activity of both these terminal oxidases. Consumption of oxygen was regularly increasing with decreasing herbicide concentration and at concentration 10-7 M was even higher than the control value. Healthy and BSMV inoculated plants treated with 2,4-D differed in ascorbic oxidase activity while activity of cytochrome oxidase was almost the same. In contrast to healthy plants the BSMV inoculated ones were seriously damaged after 2,4-D application. Plants inoculated with BSMV and treated with 2,4-D contained in contrast to those inoculated and not treated with 2,4-D a higher content of virus (124 to 150 %) which was not proportional to herbicide concentration. These results, which were obtained from experiments with plants grown in nutrient solutions supplemented with 2,4-D, indicate that BSMV inoculation induces metabolic changes which cause a loss of selectivity of 2,4-D.
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Makovcová, O., Šindelář, L. & Polák, Z. Changes in respiration and BSMV concentration of infected wheat plants after treatment with 2,4-D. Biol Plant 18, 190–194 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922802
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