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. 1982 Jul;70(1):132-5.
doi: 10.1104/pp.70.1.132.

Relationships of leaf Fatty acids to cold hardening of citrus seedlings

H E Nordby  1 , G Yelenosky
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Relationships of leaf Fatty acids to cold hardening of citrus seedlings

H E Nordby et al. Plant Physiol. 1982 Jul.

Abstract

Three cultivars of citrus with different sensitivities to freezing temperatures (citron, Citrus medica L.; rough lemon, C. limon Burm. F; sour orange, C. aurantium L.) were cold hardened for 4 weeks. Lipids from leaves of hardened and control seedlings were fractionated and analyzed for fatty acids. The absolute amount of triglycerides and phospholipids increased in the leaves upon hardening. With hardening, total linoleic acid also increased 141% in citron, 210% in rough lemon, and 233% in sour orange. Specific increases in linoleic acid were found in triglycerides, in the four phospholipids (phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol), and in neutral lipids more polar than triglycerides. Trans-3-hexadecenoic acid was found only in phosphatidylglycerol.

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