Abstract
Wheat leaves normally produced very little ethylene, but following a water deficit stress which caused a loss of 9% initial fresh weight, ethylene production increased more than 30-fold within 4 hours and declined rapidly thereafter. The changes in ethylene production were paralleled by an increase and subsequent decrease in 1-aminocyclopropanecarboxylic acid (ACC) content. The level of S-adenosylmethionine was unaffected, suggesting that the conversion of S-adenosylmethionine to ACC is a key reaction in the production of water stress-induced ethylene. This view was further supported by the observation that application of ACC to nonstressed leaf tissue caused a 70-fold increase in ethylene production, while aminoethoxyvinylglycine, a known inhibitor of the conversion of S-adenosylmethionine to ACC, inhibited ACC accumulation as well as the surge in ethylene production if the inhibitor was applied prior to the stress treatment. Cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, effectively blocked both ethylene production and ACC formation, suggesting that water stress induces de novo synthesis of ACC synthase, which is the rate-controlling enzyme in the pathway of ethylene biosynthesis.
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