Title : Cab gene expression in bleached leaves of carotenoid-deficient maize.

Pub. Date : 2000

PMID : 16228450






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1 The chloroplast photo-oxidation and the expression of the Cab gene Lhcb1, encoding the Lhcb1 light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-protein of PS II, have been studied in leaf cells of maize treated with the two bleaching herbicides norflurazon and amitrole and of the two carotenoid-free mutants vp9 and vp2 grown under high photodamaging light. Amitrole chlorophyll a-b binding protein, chloroplastic Zea mays
2 Despite the dramatic photodamage undergone by the plastids over several days, the cells of amitrole-treated and vp9 leaves maintained a certain expression of the Lhcb1 gene which, on the contrary, was completely blocked in the cells of norflurazon-treated and vp2 leaves. Amitrole chlorophyll a-b binding protein, chloroplastic Zea mays