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PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 44, 期 3, 页码 262-268出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcg033
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anthocyanin; color variation; Hydrangea macrophylla; micro-spectrophotometry; proton selective microelectrode; vacuolar pH
Sepal color of hydrangea varies with the environmental conditions. Although chemical and biological studies on this color variation have a long history, little correct knowledge has been generated about color development. All colored sepals contain the same anthocyanin, delphinidin 3-glucoside. Thus, there must be some other system for developing the wide variety of colors. In hydrangea sepals the cells of the epidermis are colorless and only the second layer of cells contain pigment. We prepared protoplasts without any color change during enzyme treatment of sepals and measured the vacuolar pH of each of the colored cells. We could correlate the color of a single hydrangea cell with its vacuolar pH using a combination of micro-spectrophotometry and a proton-selective microelectrode. Values for the vacuolar pH of blue (lambdavismax: 589 nm) and red cells (lambdavismax: 537 nm) were 4.1 and 3.3, respectively, the vacuolar pH of blue cells being significantly higher.
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