Claim · model-written summary
Under red light, leaf folate content was higher than in endosperm or roots and more sensitive to light.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- leavese4
- Treatment
- red lighte4
- Outcome
- folate contente4
- Direction
- highere4
- Comparator
- endosperm or rootse4
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Verbatim
e4“under red light, the folate content of leaves was higher and more sensitive to light than that of endosperm or roots”
t0“in wheat seedlings”
Title
Red light enhances folate accumulation in wheat seedlings
Jianwei Chang; Chong Xie; Pei Wang; et al. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B 2021. doi:10.1631/jzus.b2100266
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Red light significantly increased total folate content in wheat seedlings compared with darkness.
- Intervention effect Red light at 30 µmol/(m2·s) gave maximum total folate accumulation, a 24% increase over darkness.
- Observation 5-CH3-THF is the dominant folate component in wheat seedlings.
- Association Red light irradiation significantly increased 5-CH3-THF.
- Association Red light up-regulated the expression of GCH1.
- Association Red light up-regulated the expression of ADCS.
- Association Red light enhanced the activity of GCH1 and ADCS.
- Association Red light increased the content of folate synthesis precursors, including pterin and p-aminobenzoic acid.
- Mechanism Light-promoted folate accumulation is attributed to higher folate precursor content, enzyme activity and gene expression.