Studies on Wheat Peroxidase

Abstract

Recently, workers in this laboratory have studied the increased synthesis of peroxidase in senescing tobacco leaf disks (Parish 1968a, 1968b) and the relationship between lignification and peroxidase activity in wheat internodes (Parish and Miller 1968). The present paper reports four simple experiments designed to further clarify the interrelationships between lignification, maturation, and peroxidase activity.