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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 256-265Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcf029
Keywords
apocarotenoids; arbuscular mycorrhiza; cyclohexenone derivatives; mycorradicin; yellow pigment; Zea mays
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The core structure of the yellow pigment from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) maize roots contains the apocarotenoids mycorradicin (an acyclic C-14 polyene) and blumenol C cellobioside (a C-13 cyclohexenone diglucoside). The pigment seems to be a mixture of different esterification products of these apocarotenoids. It is insoluble in water and accumulates as hydrophobic droplets in the vacuoles of root cortical cells. Screening 58 species from 36 different plant families, we detected mycorradicin in mycorrhizal roots of all Liliopsida analyzed and of a considerable number of Rosopsida, but also species were found in which mycorradicin was undetectable in mycorrhizal roots. Kinetic experiments and microscopic analyses indicate that accumulation of the yellow pigment is correlated with the concomitant degradation of arbuscules and the extensive plastid network covering these haustorium-like fungal structures. The role of the apocarotenoids in mycorrhizal roots is still unknown. The potential C,, carotenoid precursors, however, are more likely to be of functional importance in the development and functioning of arbuscules.
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