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  • Title: Movement and metabolism of oligogalacturonide elicitors in tomato shoots.
    Author: Macdougall AJ, Rigby NM, Needs PW, Selvendran RR.
    Journal: Planta; 1992 Nov; 188(4):566-74. PubMed ID: 24178390.
    Abstract:
    We have studied the movement and metabolism of oligogalacturonides through shoots of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv Rutgers). Oligomers of polygalacturonic acid were prepared by enzyme digestion and gel filtration. These were end-reduced with [(3)H]NaBH4, using an improved reaction method, to yield oligoalditols. The radiolabelled oligomer of degree of polymerisation 6 was supplied to tomato shoots through their transpiration stream. Analysis of the distribution of radiolabel in the plant, and TLC of radiolabelled material recovered from the plant revealed the following: a) material recovered from the plant could be identified as an oligogalacturonide from its behaviour on TLC and susceptibility to digestion with polygalacturonase; b) end-reduced oligogalacturonides moved freely through the plant and were not complexed to high-molecularweight compounds and immobilised; c) during passage through the plant, modifications to the oligogalacturonide occurred, presumably as a consequence of metabolism in the apoplastic space. We found evidence of i) esterification of the molecule, and ii) shortening of the oligogalacturonide chain. The results show that in the assay for protease-inhibitor-inducing factor using cut shoots, oligogalacturonide elicitors can move into the leaves and act directly on the cells producing protease inhibitor.
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