Salt Hardiness and Dye Reduction by Potato Tissue and Mitochondrial Fractions as Influenced by Previous Storage of the Tubers

AUTOR(ES)

Craft, C. C.

RESUMO

Oxygen uptake and tetrazolium reduction occurred at higher rates in discs from potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum L.) stored at 0° than in discs from tubers stored at 12.8°. Tetrazolium reduction was at a higher rate in mitochondrial fractions from tubers stored at 0° than in mitochondrial fractions from tubers stored at 12.8°. These physiological activities were more resistant to hypertonic KCl treatments in tissue and mitochondrial fractions from tubers stored at 0° than in tissue and mitochondrial fractions from tubers stored at 12.8°. Inhibition of O2 uptake and tetrazolium reduction progressively increased with increasing concentrations of KCl for tissue and mitochondrial fractions from tubers stored at 0 and 12.8°, but inhibition was more severe and occurred at lower concentrations of KCl for the material from tubers stored at 12.8°. Tissue from tubers stored at 0° was at the same time more sensitive to hypotonic solutions and more resistant to hypertonic solutions than corresponding tissue from tubers stored at 12.8°. Adaptive changes brought on in the tubers by the stress of cold storage were demonstrated in the discs and mitochondrial fractions prepared from cold-stored tubers.

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