monogalactosyldiacylglycerol/glycine max

Norflurazon is a bleaching herbicide known to block carotenoid biosynthesis by inhibiting phytoene desaturase activity. Soybean plants were treated with norflurazon, and we examined the effects on the desaturation of lipid molecular species in leaves using ammonium [1-(14)C] oleate labeling. In

Lipid molecular species compositions of chloroplast thylakoid membranes of mesophyll cells from Spinacia oleracea, Glycine max, Oryza sativa and Zea mays and of bundle sheath cells from Zea mays have been quantitatively determined. No significant difference in the lipid molecular species composition