Abstract
The treatment of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) bark with chloro-2-ethyl phosphonic acid (ethrel), an ethylene-releasing chemical, induced, after a lag period of 13 to 21 hours, a marked increase in the total adenine nucleotides (essentially ATP and ADP) of latex cells. This rise in the latex adenylate pool was concomitant with a marked decrease in the [ATP]/[ADP] ratio without significant changes in the adenylate energy charge. The apparent equilibrium constant for the adenylate kinase, which appeared to behave as a key enzyme in maintaining the adenylate energy charge in the latex, was considerably reduced, probably as a consequence of the alkalinization of the latex cytosol induced by the treatment with ethrel. To reduce the “sink effect” and activation of the metabolism induced in Hevea bark by regular tapping, the latex was collected by micropuncture (few drops) at increasing distance (5-50 centimeters) above and below an ethrel-treated area on the virgin bark of resting trees. The effect of ethrel was shown to spread progressively along the trunk. The increase in the adenylate pool (essentially ATP) was detectable as early as 24 hours after the bark treatment and was maximum after 6 or 8 days, 5 centimeters as well as 50 centimeters above and below the stimulated bark ring. The correlative vacuolar acidification and cytosolic alkalinization, i.e. the increase in the transtonoplast ΔpH, induced in the latex cells by ethrel were shown to be concomitant with the rise in ATP content of the latex. This suggests that the tonoplast H+-pumping ATPase, which catalyzes vacuolar acidification in the latex, is directly and essentially under the control of the availability of its substrate (i.e. ATP) in the latex. The results are discussed in relation to energy-dependent activation of metabolism, and increased rubber production, as induced by the stimulation of rubber trees with ethrel.
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