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The effect of soaking injury in bean seeds on protein synthesis in embryonic axes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Johan C. Pretorius  and
J. G. Chris Small
Johan C. Pretorius
Affiliation:
Department of Botany and Genetics, University of the Orange Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
J. G. Chris Small*
Affiliation:
Department of Botany and Genetics, University of the Orange Free State, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
*
* Correspondence
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Abstract

The capacity for protein synthesis in embryonic axes of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Top Crop seeds was reduced markedly by soaking in airsaturated and CO2-saturated water. The former treatment induces soaking injury while the latter treatment prevents injury. After soaking, the capacity for protein synthesis in axes of seeds soaked in air-saturated water declined and the pattern of synthesis remained almost similar to that at the time of termination of soaking. However, the capacity and pattern of protein synthesis in axes of seeds soaked in CO2-saturated water recovered subsequent to soaking and approached that of non-soaked seeds.

Keywords

Phaseolus vulgarisprotein synthesissoaking injury
Type
Short Communication
Information
Seed Science Research , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , September 1991 , pp. 195 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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Footnotes

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Present address: Faculty of Applied Sciences, Technikon O.F.S., Private Bag X20539, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.

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