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. 1990 Aug;93(4):1441–1448. doi: 10.1104/pp.93.4.1441

Herbicide Chlorsulfuron Decreases Assimilate Transport Out of Treated Leaves of Field Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Seedlings 1

Hank D Bestman 1,2, Malcolm D Devine 1,3, William H Vanden Born 1
PMCID: PMC1062692  PMID: 16667637

Abstract

Treatment of field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) leaves with the herbicide chlorsulfuron resulted in a decrease in the export of assimilate. Twelve hours after a spot application of 1 microgram, assimilate translocation was 70% of that in control leaves. In excised leaves treated with chlorsulfuron the total amounts of sugars and free amino acids were 150 and 170%, respectively, of the amounts in control leaves, 30 hours after herbicide treatment. The amount of sucrose was 247% of that in control leaves. The increase in the concentration of sucrose in the chlorsulfuron-treated leaves, combined with the absence of an effect of chlorsulfuron on carbon dioxide fixation, suggests that the decrease in assimilate transport is not due to an effect on the synthesis of assimilates, but rather to an effect on their movement out of the leaves. Supplying branched-chain amino acids to the field pennycress seedlings prior to the application of chlorsulfuron prevented the occurrence of the effects described.

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