Studies of Electron Transport in Dry and Imbibed Peanut Embryos

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Abstract

The respiration of isolated peanut (Arachis hypogea) embryos has been studied with dry and wet embryos and mitochondria prepared after various times of imbibition. Dry seeds respire slowly, apparently via a respiratory chain which is deficient in cytochrome c. Cytochrome c-deficient mitochondria have been prepared from the embryos up to 16 hours following imbibition. These mitochondria can metabolize reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and succinate, without respiratory control by ADP, but they do phosphorylate. Added cytochrome c increases both respiration and phosphorylation of these embryonic mitochondria. When growth starts, mitochondria appear which are similar to those isolated from other mature plant tissues; they have respiratory control and can actively metabolize succinate, malate, and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. These latter mitochondria contain a concentration of cytochrome c comparable to that found in mitochondria isolated from other mature plant tissues. It is suggested that the earliest type of mitochondria may be required to control respiration in the dry and the recently wetted embryo.

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