Abstract
Experiments with lettuce seeds during the first hours of imbibition showed that oxygen is necessary to sustain high adenine nucleotide ratios and consequently, energy charge values are higher than 0.8 as is usually the case in normally metabolizing tissues.
The energy charge value (0.2) of dry seeds soaked in aerated water increased to normal values (0.8) within 30 minutes. The energy charge value of seeds imbibed under cyanide or nitrogen stayed at low values, about 0.3 for 30 minutes. Nitrogen and cyanide treatment of seeds imbibed in aerated water produced a decrease of energy charge to low values within 3 minutes. During the first minutes of imbibition, the oxygen uptake is cyanide-sensitive. The effect of the uncoupler carbonyl cyanide p-trifluoromethoxyphenyl hydrazone was not as clear-cut. However, results were obtained which agree with the occurrence of oxidative phosphorylation during the first hours of imbibition. These results indicate that a normal cytochromic pathway synthesizes ATP during the first minutes and hours following the imbibition of lettuce seeds.
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