Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024.
Plant Physiol. 1986 Oct;82(2):428-31. doi: 10.1104/pp.82.2.428.
Water samples from photosynthetic tissues of C(3) and Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants that grew together in the field were extracted and the stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios determined. During the day, (18)O/(16)O and deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) ratios of water from CAM plants were lower than those observed in water from C(3) plants. The patterns of diurnal variation (or lack thereof) in isotope ratios of plant water are consistent with the gross anatomical and physiological characteristics of the plants studied here. Our observations support the previously advanced hypothesis that high D/H ratios in cellulose nitrate prepared from CAM plants relative to those for C(3) plants are not caused by greater deuterium enrichment in the water in CAM plants, but rather by isotopic fractionations associated with different biochemical reactions in the two types of plants.
从在野外共同生长的 C(3)和景天酸代谢 (CAM) 植物的光合组织中提取水样,并测定其稳定的氧和氢同位素比值。在白天,CAM 植物的水中的 (18)O/(16)O 和氘/氢 (D/H) 比值低于从 C(3)植物中观察到的比值。植物水同位素的昼夜变化(或缺乏)模式与这里研究的植物的总解剖和生理特征一致。我们的观察结果支持先前提出的假设,即与 C(3)植物相比,从 CAM 植物制备的硝酸纤维素中高的 D/H 比值不是由于 CAM 植物中水的氘富集更大,而是由于与两种类型植物中的不同生化反应相关的同位素分馏。