Abstract
Three experiments of in vitro ear culture were conducted to evaluate how the substrates of C (carbon) and N (nitrogen) supply in liquid medium regulate the grain growth and synthesis of protein and starch in two winter wheat cultivars. Increasing glutamine supply with constant sucrose concentration increased the contents of total protein and protein components of albumin and globulin in grain, and the activity of glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT) across most treatments, while markedly reducing the contents of total starch and components of amylose and amylopectin as well as the activities of soluble starch synthase (SSS) and granule bounded starch synthase (GBSS). The opposite patterns were observed in the experiment of increasing sucrose supply at constant glutamine concentration. When simultaneously increasing sucrose and glutamine supply at constant ratio, the contents of total protein, albumin and globulin in grain were slowly enhanced, whereas the contents of total starch, amylose and amylopectin and the activities of SSS, GBSS and GPT increased only to a certain extent and then decreased. Negative correlations were found between the contents of protein or protein components in grains and the relative ratio of sucrose to glutamine concentrations in the culture medium, while positive correlations were seen between the contents of total starch or starch components and the ratio of sucrose to glutamine. These results implied that the composition of protein and starch in wheat grain could be readily manipulated by varying the concentrations of sucrose and glutamine and their ratio in the culture medium.
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