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Photosynthetic potential of plant cell cultures

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Plant Cell Culture

Part of the book series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology ((ABE,volume 31))

Abstract

Photoautotrophism is an outstanding characteristic of plant metabolism. Cultured green cells from higher plants now provide new potentials for research into photosynthesis, and the establishment of photoautotrophism in cultured cells is helping to advance studies on the productivity of plant cells.

Photoautotrophic cultures of various types of green cells able to grow relatively well for long periods were isolated in the late 1970s. The research which established such cultures demonstrated that the production of successful photoautotrophic cultures of green cells depends on the selection of highly chlorophyllous cells with high photosynthetic potential.

Both photoautotrophically and photomixotrophically cultured green cells mainly fix CO2 through the Calvin cycle, but they also have a special carboxylation pathway (PEPCase) which is much more active than the usual carboxylation pathway present in intact plant cells. Very active 14CO2-fixation into malate in the light was found for both types of cultured cells from C3 plants; dark fixation alone could not account for this.

The study of photoautotrophism in plant cell cultures is of a fundamental nature, but the findings are important in the development of applications such as the improvement of photosynthesis, resistance to herbicides and the production of useful compounds.

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Yamada, Y. (1985). Photosynthetic potential of plant cell cultures. In: Plant Cell Culture. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0002537

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