Effects of simazine [2-chloro-4,6-bis(methylamino)-s-triazine] on the photochemical reactions of isolated spinach chloroplasts and crude thylakoids of Anabaena inequalis UTEX B-381 were compared.
Simazine inhibited photosynthetic O_2 evolution and increased the chlorophyll fluorescence in whole cells of Anabaena. The electron transfer from diphenylcarbazide to 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol was inhibited by simazine treatment in spinach chloroplasts, but not in crude thylakoids of Anabaena. In spinach chloroplasts, the chlorophyll fluorescence was increased by simazine treatment in the presence of diphenylcarbazide and ferricyanide, but not in the presence of diphenylcarbazide and silicomolybdate. In crude thylakoids of Anabaena, simazine treatment did not increase the chlorophyll fluorescence in the presence of either diphenylcarbazide and silicomolybdate, or diphenylcarbazide and ferricyanide.
These results suggest that the inhibitory site of simazine on photosynthetic electron transport chain of Anabaena is different from that of spinach chloroplasts. And there may be a possibility that the inhibition site of simazine in Anabaena lies on the donor side of photosystem Ⅱ, before the site of electron donation by diphenylcarbazide.
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