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The system may provide a test system to investigate the biochemical basis of disease resistance.
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- test system to investigate the biochemical basis of disease resistancee6
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t0“CATECHOL OXIDASE IN MAIZE”
e6“This system of enzyme and modifier fits the requirements of hypersensitive disease resistance in plants and may provide a test system to investigate the biochemical basis of disease resistance”
Title
THE GENETIC CONTROL AND BIOCHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF CATECHOL OXIDASE IN MAIZE
Tony Pryor; Drew Schwartz Genetics 1973. doi:10.1093/genetics/75.1.75
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Three catechol oxidase isozyme variants are determined by alleles of gene Cx.
- Observation Gene Cx is located on chromosome 10 less than 0.1 recombination units from the endosperm marker du(1).
- Mechanism The extractable form of the enzyme is modified by an endogenous modifier that appears to function as an enzyme substrate.
- Observation Modified enzyme has altered kinetics.
- Observation Modified enzyme does not migrate in electrophoresis.
- Mechanism Modified enzyme most probably results from tanning of the enzyme by reaction products.
- Intervention effect Maleic hydrazide causes a ten-fold reduction in the modifier content of seedlings.
- Intervention effect Maleic hydrazide allows the enzyme to be extracted in an unmodified form.
- Observation The unmodified enzyme will migrate in electrophoresis.
- Observation Enzyme and modifier are functionally isolated in intact cells.
- Observation The enzyme and modifier system fits the requirements of hypersensitive disease resistance in plants.
- Observation The content of modifier varies in different lines and is genetically determined by genes independent of Cx.