Abstract
Cytokinin treatment is known to promote expansion of light-grown excised radish (Raphanus sativus L. cv Crimson Giant) cotyledons. This expansion, at least in part, seems to be related to an increased accumulation of osmotically active reducing sugars. Kinetin treatment did not cause increased levels of isocitrate lyase activity over the controls, but stimulated increased levels of two invertase forms, designated types I and II. Type I was soluble and type II was insoluble after homogenization in 10 millimolar tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane-HCl (pH 7.0). Both types were soluble after homogenization in 300 millimolar NaCl. At low salt concentration, type II was retained on a diethylamioethyl-cellulose column and type I was not. Type II was then eluted from the column at high salt concentration. Types I and II exhibited pH optima of 5.3 and 4.3, Michaelis constants of 4.96 and 1.23 millimolar sucrose, and molecular weights of 65,000 and 57,000 daltons, respectively. The kinetin promotion of reducing sugar accumulation may be related to increased levels of the two invertase forms, but is probably not a result of direct cytokinin-stimulated glyoxysomal activity.
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