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METABOLIC BASIS FOR INJURY TO PLANTS FROM COMBINATIONS OF O3 AND SO2. STUDIES WITH MODIFIERS OF POLLUTANT TOXICITY
Citation:
Olszyk, D. AND D. Tingey. METABOLIC BASIS FOR INJURY TO PLANTS FROM COMBINATIONS OF O3 AND SO2. STUDIES WITH MODIFIERS OF POLLUTANT TOXICITY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-85/120 (NTIS PB86101417), 1985.
Description:
Pisum sativum L. cv Alsweet (garden pea) and Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. flacca (mutant tomato) were chosen to evaluate the metabolic basis for plant injury from combinations of O3 + SO2. The plants were exposed under conditions reported to specifically alter O3 or SO2 toxicity; light versus dark exposures, and treatment with the fungal metabolite fusicoccin (FC), the O3 injury inhibitor. Thus, a metabolic mechanism affected by both pollutants may be associated with the combination injury, e.g. effects the plasma membrane.