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Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 52, No. 359, pp. 1179-1190, June 1, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press


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Anoxic stress leads to hydrogen peroxide formation in plant cells

Olga B. Blokhina, Tamara V. Chirkova1 and Kurt V. Fagerstedt2

Department of Biosciences, Division of Plant Physiology, Viikki Biocenter, PO Box 56, FIN-00014 Helsinki University, Finland

Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was detected cytochemically in plant tissues during anoxia and re-oxygenation by transmission electron microscopy using its reaction with cerium chloride to produce electron dense precipitates of cerium perhydroxides. Anoxia-tolerant yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus) and rice (Oryza sativa), and anoxia-intolerant wheat (Triticum aestivum) and garden iris (Iris germanica) were used in the experiments. In all plants tested, anoxia and re-oxygenation increased H2O2 in plasma membranes and the apoplast. In the anoxia-tolerant species the response was delayed in time, and in highly tolerant I. pseudacorus plasma membrane associated H2O2 was detected only after 45 d of oxygen deprivation. Quantification of cerium precipitates showed a statistically significant increase in the amount of H2O2 caused by anoxia in wheat root meristematic tissue, but not in the anoxia-tolerant I. pseudacorus rhizome parenchyma. Formation of H2O2 under anoxia is considered mainly an enzymatic process (confirmed by an enzyme inhibition analysis) and is due to the trace amount of dissolved oxygen (below 10-5 M) present in the experimental system. The data suggest oxidative stress is an integral part of oxygen deprivation stress, and emphasize the importance of the apoplast and plasma membrane in the development of the anoxic stress response.

Key words: Anoxia, apoplast, hydrogen peroxide, hypoxia, oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species.


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