Nocturnal Accumulation of Malic Acid Occurs in Mesophyll Tissue without Proton Transport to Epidermal Tissue in the Inducible Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum | Zendy

Klaus Winter | Zendy; Gerald E. Edwards | Zendy; Joseph A. M. Holtum | Zendy

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Nocturnal Accumulation of Malic Acid Occurs in Mesophyll Tissue without Proton Transport to Epidermal Tissue in the Inducible Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

Author(s) -

Klaus Winter,

Gerald E. Edwards,

Joseph A. M. Holtum

Publication year - 1981

Publication title -

plant physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.554

H-Index - 312

eISSN - 1532-2548

pISSN - 0032-0889

DOI - 10.1104/pp.68.2.355

Subject(s) - crassulacean acid metabolism , mesembryanthemum crystallinum , malic acid , kalanchoe , biology , phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase , botany , biochemistry , photosynthesis , metabolism , citric acid

The inducible Crassulacean acid metabolism plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, accumulates malic acid, i.e. equivalent amounts of malate anions and protons in the mesophyll cells at night. Levels of malate and titratable acidity are low in the epidermal tissue and do not change significantly during the day/night cycle. This result is in contrast to a recent report (Bloom 1979 Plant Physiol 64: 919-923) that the synthesis of malic acid during dark CO(2) fixation is associated with an equivalent exchange of inorganic cations from epidermal tissue with protons in the mesophyll cells.

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