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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 55, Issue 406, Pages 2179-2189Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erh235
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Geum montanum; leaf life span; methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside; NMR spectroscopy; pathway compartmentation; taxonomic distribution
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Using C-13-NMR, methyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (MeG) was characterized as a major compound in the leaves of the alpine herb Geum montanum L. MeG continuously accumulated during the life span of G. montanum leaves, and accounted for up to 20% of the soluble carbohydrates in aged overwintering leaves, without being reallocated during senescence. Incubating intact plant tissues, culture cells, and purified organelles with C-13-labelled substrates showed that MeG was synthesized in the cytosol of cells, directly from glucose and methanol molecules. There was no contribution of the C-1 pathway. MeG was subsequently stored in the vacuole without being re-exported to the cytoplasm. All the dicots tested contained the enzymatic machinery permitting MeG synthesis from methanol and glucose, but the plants accumulating this compound at concentrations higher than 1 mumol g(-1) wet wt were mainly members of the Rosaceae family belonging to the Rosoideae subfamily. It is suggested that the synthesis of MeG may contribute to reduce the accumulation in the cytoplasm of methanol and its derived compounds.
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