Biologia plantarum 43:637-640, 2000 | DOI: 10.1023/A:1002824721597

Effects of Cold Acclimation and Salicylic Acid on Changes in ACC and MACC Contents in Maize during Chilling

G. Szalai1,*, I. Tari2, T. Janda1, A. Pestenácz2, E. Páldi1
1 Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvásár, Hungary e-mail
2 Department of Plant Physiology, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary

The effect of 0.5 mM salicylic acid (SA) pretreatment and of growing at hardening temperatures on chilling-induced changes in 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) and malonyl 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (MACC) was investigated in young maize (Zea mays L.) plants grown in hydroponic solution at 22/20 °C. Chilling at 5 °C caused an increase in ACC content;however, this increase was less pronounced in plants cold acclimated at 13/11 °C 4 d before the chilling treatment, and in those which were pretreated with SA for 1 d before the cold stress. Changes in MACC at low temperature showed no correlation with chilling tolerance in maize.

Keywords: 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC); ACC oxidase; ACC synthase; cold stress; malonyl 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (MACC); Zea mays
Subjects: ACC oxidase, ACC synthase, chilling; 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, ACC, chilling; cold acclimation, salicylic acid; maize, chilling, salicylic acid; malonyl 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, MACC, chilling; salicylic acid, chilling; Zea mays

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Szalai, G., Tari, I., Janda, T., Pestenácz, A., & Páldi, E. (2000). Effects of Cold Acclimation and Salicylic Acid on Changes in ACC and MACC Contents in Maize during Chilling. Biologia plantarum, 43(4), 637-640. doi: 10.1023/A:1002824721597.
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