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. 1992 Jan;98(1):39–43. doi: 10.1104/pp.98.1.39

Biochemical Characteristics of Thylakoid Membranes in Chloroplasts of Dark-Grown Pine Cotyledons 1

Kenji Shinohara 1,2, Akio Murakami 1,2, Yoshihiko Fujita 1,2
PMCID: PMC1080147  PMID: 16668641

Abstract

Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) cotyledons were found to synthesize chlorophylls in complete darkness during germination, although the synthesis was not as great as that in the light. The compositions of thylakoid components in plastids of cotyledons grown in the dark and light were compared using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis patterns of polypeptides and spectroscopic determination of membrane redox components. All thylakoid membrane proteins found in preparations from light-grown cotyledons were also present in preparations from dark-grown cotyledons. However, levels of photosystem I, photosystem II, cytochrome b[ill]/f, and light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein complexes in dark-grown cotyledons were only one-fourth of those in light-grown cotyledons, on a fresh weight basis. These results suggest that the low abundance of thylakoid components in dark-grown cotyledons is associated with the limited supply of chlorophyll needed to assemble the two photosystem complexes and the light-harvesting chlorophyll-protein complex.

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