A State of PSI and PSII Photochemistry of Sunflower Yellow-Green Plastome Mutant
- 1 Department of Genetics, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- 2 Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
- 3 Zhdanov Don Experiment Station, All Russia Research Institute of Oil Crops, pos. Oporny, Rostov region, Russia
Abstract
Chlorophyll deficient mutants are appropriate model objects for a large number of investigations in the field of photosynthesis. In this study, we identified a state of Photosystem I (PSI) and Photosystem II (PSII) photochemistry and light responses of the sunflower yellow-green mutant line - en:chlorina-7, wherein mutations in chloroplast genes have been previously localized. The conducted research revealed low content of photo-oxidizable PSI and an impaired quantum yield of PSII photochemistry in the en:chlorina-7 line as compared with a wild type. Disturbances of PSI and PSII in yellow-green plastome mutant line of sunflower (en:chlorina-7) are associated with mutations in psaA and psbB, respectively.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ojbsci.2016.193.198
Copyright: © 2016 Maksim S. Makarenko, Nikolay V. Kozel, Alexander V. Usatov, Oleg F. Gorbachenko and Natalia G. Averina. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Yellow-Green Mutants
- Sunflower Plastome Mutant
- PSI and PSII Reduction
- psaA
- psbB