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Spectral features and structure of chloroplasts under an early block of chlorophyll synthesis

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A xantha mutant of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) with blocked synthesis of 5-aminolevulinic acid in light accumulates 30 times less chlorophyll than the parental strain. Formation of the chloroplast membrane system in the mutant stops at very early stages, mostly vesicles and single short thylakoids. The mutant plastid membranes contain only light-harvesting chlorophyll-a/b-protein complexes I and II with fluorescence maxima at 728 and 681 nm, respectively. Thus, an early block of chlorophyll synthesis impairs the formation and function of photosystem reaction centers and retards the development of the chloroplast membrane system at the stage of proplastids.

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Abbreviations

Chl:

chlorophyll

LHC:

light-harvesting chlorophyll-a/b-protein complex

PS:

photosystem

RC:

reaction center

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Ladygin, 2006, published in Biofizika, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 710–723.

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Ladygin, V.G. Spectral features and structure of chloroplasts under an early block of chlorophyll synthesis. BIOPHYSICS 51, 635–644 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350906040191

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