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Water stress-sensitized photoinhibition in senescing cotyledons of clusterbean: Changes in thylakoid structures and inactivation of photosystem 2

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Seedlings of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba were grown on Petri dishes either in water or water plus 3 % PEG-6000 to induce water stress. The senescing cotyledons experiencing the stress exhibited loss in contents of leaf proteins and chlorophyll (Chl) and a decline in oxygen evolution. The effect of PEG treatment was more pronounced at moderate (MI) than low (LI) irradiance. The stress-induced loss in the activity of superoxide dismutase and increase in the thylakoid lipid peroxidation accompanied a change in the physical status of the bilayer membrane as demonstrated by an enhancement of room temperature Chl a fluorescence polarization and decrease in energy transfer efficiency in pigment assembly. This resulted in a sustained decrease in photosystem 2 activity blocking channels of energy utilization. The absorbed quanta, thus unutilized, were excess even at MI, leading to photoinhibitory response.

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  2. Department of Botany, Panchayat College, Bargarh, P.O/Dist.-Bargarh-768028, Orissa, India

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Deo, P.M., Biswal, U.C. & Biswal, B. Water stress-sensitized photoinhibition in senescing cotyledons of clusterbean: Changes in thylakoid structures and inactivation of photosystem 2. Photosynthetica 44, 187–192 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11099-006-0005-x

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