Photosynthetic Responses of Leaves to Water Stress, Expressed by Photoacoustics and Related Methods 1: II. The Effect of Rapid Drought on the Electron Transport and the Relative Activities of the Two Photosystems
AUTOR(ES)
Havaux, Michel
RESUMO
The effect of rapid dehydration of detached tobacco leaves (Nicotiana tabacum L.) on the photochemical apparatus of photosynthesis was studied in vivo by a combination of methods: photoacoustics, chlorophyll a fluorescence, and cytochrome f difference spectroscopy. It was shown that the inhibition of gross O2 evolution was mainly caused by inactivation of PSII: (a) The saturation curve of cytochrome-f photooxidation by farred (>710 nanometers) light was resistant to the stress, leading to the conclusion that photosystem I (PSI) was largely unaffected by the stress. (b) The extent of the chlorophyll a variable fluorescence arising from photosystem II (PSII) decreased with the progression of the stress, but was largely unaffected when the leaf was preincubated with electron donors to PSII, such as hydroxylamine. It is concluded that the drought damage to PSII occurred on the photooxidative side. Despite the extensive inhibition of PSII and the relative preservation of PSI, the apparent PSII/PSI activity balance was somewhat larger in stressed leaves than in the control, as indicated by photoacoustic measurements of Emerson enhancement. These measurements were performed continuously under conditions which favor transitions to either state 1 or 2, showing that the transition to state 2 was considerably inhibited. Simultaneous measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence induction at 680 and 730 mm at room temperature were also used to probe changes in energy distribution between PSII and PSI and indicated that the transition from a dark adapted state to state 2 was also affected in water-stressed leaves. The saturation curve of the far-red light effect in Emerson enhancement was not changed by the stress, giving another independent evidence for the drought resistance of PSI activity. This apparent preservation of the imbalance in photochemical activities in favor of PSII, despite the fact that PSII is strongly inhibited, and PSI is not, supports a previous suggestion that the electron transfer between the two photosystems is not random but that a large extent of PSII and PSI units are specifically linked.
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