title: Activity of glutathione transferase and reductase in tissues of bird cherry-oat aphid during its host-plant alternation.
abstract: Changes in activity of detoxifying enzymes, involved in metabolism of glutathione in bird cherry-oat aphid during its host alternation have been investigated. Glutathione transferase (GST) and glutathione reductase (GR) activity was found in homogenates from tissues of the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.). The highest activity of the enzymes was recorded in winged migrants that fly from bird cherry (Prunus padus L.), the winter host onto cereals a summer host. Before the migration an increase in activity of the glutathione transferase and glutathione reductase within tissues of winged migrants was observed. When the migrants started to feed on cereals, GST activity further increased and GR activity decreased. The significance of the R. padi glutathione transferase and reductase in detoxification of plant allelochemicals while the aphid host-plants alternation is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Agricultural & Pedagogic University, Siedlce, Poland.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Laskowska
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leszczynski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Markowski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001042:Aphids / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000254:growth & development; D002523:Edible Grain; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism*; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009249:NADP; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase