ArticlePlanta2009
Influence of light on ascorbate formation and metabolism in apple fruits.
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- Apple Antioxidant Properties as an Effect of N Dose and Rate-Mycorrhization Involvement: A Long-Term Study.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Identification of key genes controlling L-ascorbic acid during Jujube (Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Production of ascorbic acid, total protein, callus and root in vitro of non-heading Chinese cabbage by tissue culture.Molecular biology reports · 2020Article
- Ascorbic Acid-The Little-Known Antioxidant in Woody Plants.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Vitamin C in Plants: From Functions to Biofortification.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Morphological and Physiological Stress Responses of Lettuce to Different Intensities of Continuous Light.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
- Hydrogen gas mediates ascorbic acid accumulation and antioxidant system enhancement in soybean sprouts under UV-A irradiation.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Transcriptional profiling of genes involved in ascorbic acid biosynthesis, recycling, and degradation during three leaf developmental stages in celery.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2016Article
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- Effects of location within the tree canopy on carbohydrates, organic acids, amino acids and phenolic compounds in the fruit peel and flesh from three apple (Malus × domestica) cultivars.Horticulture research · 2014Article
- Expression patterns and promoter characteristics of the gene encoding Actinidia deliciosa L-galactose-1-phosphate phosphatase involved in the response to light and abiotic stresses.Molecular biology reports · 2013Article
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- Allelic variation in paralogs of GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase is a major determinant of vitamin C concentrations in apple fruit.Plant physiology · 2012Article
- Light affects ascorbate content and ascorbate-related gene expression in tomato leaves more than in fruits.Planta · 2012Article
- Regulation of L-ascorbic acid content in strawberry fruits.Journal of experimental botany · 2011Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
To further understand the regulatory mechanism of light on the formation of ascorbic acid (AsA) in the sink organs of plants, a systematical investigation on AsA levels, activities of two key biosynthsis enzymes and their mRNA expression as well as the recycling was performed in the fruits of apple (Malus domestica Borkh), under different levels of shade. After the whole trees were shaded with the sun-light about 50-55% for 20 days, AsA levels were significantly decreased in fruit peel, flesh and leaves, while mRNA expression levels and activities of L-galactose dehydrogenase (L-GalDH, EC 1.1.1.117) and L-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase (L-GalLDH, EC 1.3.2.3) as well as activities of recycling enzymes was clearly declined in the leaf and peel but not in the flesh. By shading fruits only for 20 days, AsA levels, relative mRNA levels and activities of L-GalDH and L-GalLDH as well as activities of recycling enzymes all showed obvious decrease in the peel, but not in the flesh. However, their levels in the peel were markedly increased after the full shade was removed and re-exposed these fruits on natural light for 5 days. It is concluded that light affects AsA biosynthesis and recycling in the peel and leaf, but did not in the fresh. Results also suggest that apple fruit is potential to biosynthesize AsA via the L-galactose pathway, and AsA content in the fruits may depend partly on levels of AsA or other photochemistry controlled by light in the leaves.
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