Agricultural and Food Science in Finland Association of antioxidative enzymes with the synergistic effect of selenium and UV irradiation in enhancing plant growth Tailin Xue Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China Helinä Hartikainen Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, PO Box 27, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: helina.hartikainen@helsinki.fi Selenium (Se) is able to defend human and animal cells against UV(B) stress. Higher plants are gener- ally considered not to require Se but to have a low tolerance to it. However, recently it has been dem- onstrated that Se is able to protect also plants against UV-induced oxidative stress and even to pro- mote the growth of plants subjected to high-energy light. In the present study the effects of Se on anti- oxidative enzymes possibly associated with this synergistic effect were investigated. Ryegrass and lettuce were grown in soil supplemented with Se at 0, 0.1 or 1.0 mg kg -1 under normal light or sub- jected to UV episodes. Lipid peroxidation and the changes of antioxidative enzymes were measured at two growing stages. The positive synergistic effect of the lower Se dosage and UV was found to be at least partly associated with the antioxidative role of Se through increased glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and catalase (CAT) activity, whereas ascorbate peroxidase (APX) responded negatively to both factors. The contribution of the other enzymes studied seemed to be plant-specific: glutathione S-transferase (GST) increased in both ryegrass assays and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the first let- tuce assay. At the higher addition level Se acted as a pro-oxidant and diminished fresh weight yields. UV irradiation alleviated the toxicity coincidently with increase of CAT in ryegrass and SOD in let- tuce. Key words: ascorbate peroxidase, catalase, enzymes, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione S-trans- ferase, lipid peroxidation, selenium, superoxide dismutase, ultraviolet radiation Introduction The upward trends of UV(B) radiation linked to ozone depletion may be harmful to living organ- isms (Kerr and McElroy 1993). Selenium is an essential component of the glutathione peroxi- dase (GSH-Px) family, which has been shown to be able to resist UV radiation damages in human beings (Ruche and Cesarini 1991, Burke et al. 1992a, Leccia et al. 1993), experimental ani- A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Vol. 9 (2000): 177–186. 177 ÓAgricultural and Food Science in Finland Manuscript received June 1999 E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:09 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 mailto:helina.hartikainen@helsinki.fi mals (Burke et al. 1992b, Pence et al. 1994, Stewart et al. 1996) and even a human dermato- tropic poxvirus (Shisler et al. 1998). Agricul- tural plants are generally considered not to re- quire Se and to have usually a low tolerance to it. Its toxicity mechanisms have been discussed extensively (for references see e.g. Läuchli 1993), but recently Se has been demonstrated to exert beneficial effects on plants. At proper con- centrations it may increase their antioxidative capacity (Hartikainen et al. 1997). Since some of the detrimental effects of UV irradiation in plants are due to the oxidative stress it produces (Takeuchi et al. 1995, Hideg and Vass 1996), Se can be hypothesized to be able to increase the tolerance of plants against UV. In fact, a previous study of Hartikainen and Xue (1999) demonstrated that Se is able to pro- tect plants against UV-induced oxidative stress and even to promote plant growth under high- energy light. The positive interaction between Se and UV light was manifested e.g. as in- creased concentrations of nucleic acids and soluble proteins. The antioxidative function of Se was associated with the promotion of glu- tathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity. The ele- ment analysis proved that the positive interac- tion was not assisted by other nutrients (P, K, Mg, Ca, Mn, Fe, Zn, Cu). The objective of the present supplementary study was to gain more detailed information about the role of antioxidative enzymes in their p o s s i b l e a s s o c i a t i o n w i t h t h e s y n e r g i s t i c growth-promoting effect of Se and UV irradia- tion. In addition to glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), superoxide dismutase (SOD), cata- lase (CAT), glutathione S-tranferase (GST) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) were chosen as candidate enzymes due to their importance in cell defence systems. They are normally local- ised in different cell parts and scavenge differ- ent oxygen radicals. GSH-Px scavenges H 2 O 2 and converts the toxic lipid hydroperoxides to less toxic lipid hydroxide. CAT exists in peroxi- somes and catalyzes H 2 O 2 decomposition, while APX exists in chloroplasts and cytosol, but prin- cipally in chloroplasts, and scavenges H 2 O 2 pro- duced during photosynthesis (Nakano and Asada 1981, Mittler and Zilinskas 1991). The subcellular localization of plant GST is unclear, but in animal cells the substrates of GSH-Px and GST are similar, as both can scavenge organic hydroperoxides (Habig et al. 1974). In plants, SOD is so far the only enzyme found to specifi- cally scavenge O 2 - , an initiator in a series of radical chain reactions. This activated oxygen radical is produced in various reactions and metabolic processes involving oxygen, e.g. pho- tosynthesis (Elstner 1991) and respiration (Werf et al. 1991). In order to find out possible changes of antioxidative capacity in response to prolonged stress, the oxidative status of the plants and the enzyme activities were deter- mined at two growing stages. Material and Methods Pot Experiment Plant material and cultivation methods are de- scribed in our previous report (Hartikainen and Xue 1999). Briefly, ryegrass (Lolium perenne var. Prego) and lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. Aus- tralischer gelber) were cultivated in pot experi- ments in a greenhouse at 20–33°C with a coarse-textured soil. For both plants two sets of air-dried, sieved (3–5 mm) and homogenized soil samples weighing 4 kg each were treated with H 2 SeO 4 to create Se addition levels of 0, 0.1 and 1.0 mg kg -1 soil, respectively. Then 4.5 g of ground and homogenized NPK fertilizer (16- 16-16, Se background 0.1 mg kg -1 ) was mixed with a 3.5 kg portion of soil, and this soil mix- ture was put into plastic pots (4 l) and covered with the remaining soil. The seeds (2.5 g of rye- grass and 15 seeds of lettuce per pot) were sown onto the upper layer of the soil. After sowing, 100 g of soil without application of Se and NPK was added to cover the seeds. The experiment was performed in quadruplicate. 178 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Xue, T. & Hartikainen, H. Antioxidative enzymes with synergistic effect of Se and UV irradiation E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:09 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 During the experiment, daylight was supple- mented with Osram Vialox Nav-T 400W lamps to provide a photoperiod of 16 hours and a quan- tum flux density at the top of the pots of 160 mmol m -2 s -1 . Two weeks after sprouting, one pot set was illuminated every second day for one min by Philips TL-40W/12 Ultraviolet-B (Hol- land) lamps for two weeks and then for three min daily for the following two weeks. The UV intensity at the top of the pots (measured by Lighting Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology) was 0.177 (280–320 nm) and 0.077 (321–360 nm) mW cm -2 . According to cal- culations based on the radiation spectrum, a small amount of UV(C) light included in the ir- radiation episodes amounted to about 4% of the total energy. During the irradiation treatment the control pots without UV treatment were pro- tected by isolating them with black plastic cur- tains. The experimental plants were irrigated from below with deionized water applied to the plates. Plant analyses After the first 2-week round of UV irradiation, three small subsamples were randomly taken from the shoots in each pot and and used imme- diatedly for biochemical analysis as the first as- say After the second 2-week round of UV treat- ment, the whole shoot yield in each pot was har- vested. The fresh weight (FW) of the yield was measured and three subsamples were then ran- domly taken for biochemical analysis as the sec- ond assay. In statistical analyses of the results, the mean of three subsamples was taken to rep- resent the result of each pot. The fresh weight yields of the subsamples used for the first assay were added to the final yields. The fresh plant samples were analyzed for enzyme activities as follows: glutathione per- oxidase (GSH-Px, EC 1.11.1.9) by a modified method of Flohe and Gunzler (1984), catalase (CAT, EC 1.11.1.6) by the method of Aebi (1983), glutathione S-transferase (GST, EC 2.5.1.18) by the method of Habig et al. (1974), and ascorbate peroxidase (APX, EC 1.11.1.7) by the method described by Mittler and Zil- inskas (1991). Superoxide dismutase (SOD, EC 1.15.1.1) was analyzed by the method of Gian- nopolitis and Ries (1977), where the nitro- blue-tetrazolium (NBT) reaction mixtures were illuminated for 3 min with an Osram Vialox Nav-T 400 W lamp. In addition to the enzyme activities, the fresh plant material was also ana- lyzed for thiobarbituric reactive substances (TBARS) by a modified method of Yagi (1982) in order to monitor lipid peroxidation. The de- termination of dry weight (DW), Se and nutrient concentrations, and proteins used in the calcula- tions of enzyme activities are given in Hartika- inen and Xue (1999). Results As expected, the effect of added Se and UV irra- diation on FW yields (Table 1) followed the same patterns reported previously for DW (Har- tikainen and Xue 1999). Under normal light conditions, the lower Se addition did not affect plant growth, but the higher one exerted a toxic effect on both plants. Without added Se, UV ir- radiation did not affect the growth of ryegrass but diminished the lettuce yield. However, in combination with the high-energy light the lower Se dosage significantly increased FW yields, and the toxicity of the higher addition was alleviated to some extent (Table 1). UV did not affect the Se concentration in ryegrass but reduced it significantly in lettuce cultivated without added Se (Table 1). In both plants cultivated under normal light, TBARS increased upon prolonged cultivation (Table 2), which indicates enhanced lipid per- oxidation. In the control plants not supplied with Se, UV raised TBARS in both assays, dem- onstrating that the short-wavelength light pro- duced an extra oxidative stress. The added Se re- duced the lipid peroxidation irrespective of light conditions, except the higher dosage, which ex- 179 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Vol. 9 (2000): 177–186. E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:09 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 erted a pro-oxidative effect on the second let- tuce assay under normal light. Actually, in the young seedlings (the first assay) supplied with Se, UV did not have any effect on TBARS. In the second assay, the antioxidative effect of Se was relative more pronounced in the plants sub- jected to external UV stress. The pro-oxidative effect of the higher Se addition on lettuce disap- peared under UV. When no Se was added, the activity of all en- zymes analyzed decreased upon progressive plant growth (Tables 3 and 4). The added Se did not appear to reverse these decreasing trends. The growth-promoting effect of Se as triggered by UV irradiation was associated at least partly with the increased activity of GSH-Px in both assays (Tables 3 and 4). Irrespective of the light conditions, the lower Se addition increased the activity of GSH-Px in both plants, but the higher dosage depressed GSH-Px in the first lettuce as- say. In ryegrass, also UV enhanced GSH-Px ac- tivity in all treatments. In lettuce, on the con- trary, this response was found in the first assay in all Se-supplied plants but in the second assay 180 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Xue, T. & Hartikainen, H. Antioxidative enzymes with synergistic effect of Se and UV irradiation Table 1. The fresh weight (FW, g pot -1 ) and Se concentration (mg kg -1 dry weight) of the yields at various Se dosages without or with UV irradiation. Data are means of four replicates, values followed by a common letter do not differ at P£0.05 with Duncan test. Each plant and irradiation treatment is tested seperately. The effect of UV irradiation at each Se level is tested by the t-test: *= difference significant at P£0.05, **= difference significant at P£0.01. Table 2. Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (nmol malondialdehyde g -1 fresh weight) in shoots in two assays at various Se dosages without or with UV irradiation. Data are means of four replicates, values followed by a common letter do not differ at P£0.05 with Duncan test. Each plant and irradiation treatment is tested seperately. The effect of UV irradiation at each Se level is tested by the t-test: *= difference significant at P£0.05, **= difference significant at P£0.01. E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:11 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 only at the lower Se level. The activities of CAT, SOD, GST and APX were not affected or even diminished by the UV irradiation when no Se was added (Tables 3 and 4). Under normal light conditions, in most cases Se addition did not promote the activity of these enzymes, except for the higher dosage, which increased GST in both ryegrass assays (Table 3) and CAT in the second lettuce assay (Table 4). In combination with UV in ryegrass, both Se ad- ditions promoted CAT in the second assay and the lower dosage GST in both assays. In lettuce, in turn, UV treatment enhanced in the first assay the activity of SOD at both Se levels, and in the second assay CAT at the lower Se level. Discussion The present study was carried out under low background light conditions and some UV(C) light was present, which explains that the im- pacts of UV irradiation were significant despite short episodes. Nevertheless, the results ob- tained in both assays agree with those obtained by Takeuchi et al. (1995) with UV(B) showing that the high-energy light enhances the accumu- lation of lipid peroxidation products. In their study, this reaction pattern was reversed by ap- plication of exogenous scavengers of free radi- cals, such as hydroquinone. In the present study, 181 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Vol. 9 (2000): 177–186. Table 3. Activities of antioxidative enzymes 1) in two ryegrass assays at various Se levels without or with UV treat- ment. Data are means of four replicates, values followed by a common letter do not differ at P£0.05 with Duncan test. Each plant and irradiation treatment is tested seperately. The effect of UV irradiation at each Se level is tested by the t-test: *= difference significant at P£0.05, **= difference significant at P£0.01. E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:13 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 the added Se took this role and diminished the UV-induced increase in TBARS. However, it reduced the lipid peroxidation irrespective of light conditions, even though in the second as- say the antioxidative effect was relatively more pronounced in the plants subjected to the short- wavelenght light. Jansen et al. (1996) have reported that plants can defend themselves against UV irradiation damage by strengthening their antioxidative systems. The present study suggests that various antioxidative enzymes can be plant-specific and their responses to external stress can vary at dif- ferent growing stages (Tables 3 and 4). In rye- grass which showed a higher tolerance to UV, the activity of all enzymes, except that of GSH- Px was higher than in lettuce. Willekens et al. (1994) found that ozone, SO 2 and UV(B) had similar effects on mRNA accumulation of antioxidant genes in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia L. The effects of the different stresses were characterized by a decline in CAT1, a moderate increase in CAT3, and a strong increase in CAT2 and GSH-Px, whereas SODs and cyt APX were not affected. However, in the present study the only enzyme increasing in response to UV without Se application in rye- grass was GSH-Px, the scavenger of lipid hy- droperoxides and H 2 O 2 . In lettuce where UV di- minished the Se concentration and reduced 182 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Xue, T. & Hartikainen, H. Antioxidative enzymes with synergistic effect of Se and UV irradiation Table 4. Activities of antioxidative enzymes 1) in two lettuce assays at various Se levels without or with UV treatment. Data are means of four replicates, values followed by a common letter do not differ at P£0.05 with Duncan test. Each plant and irradiation treatment is tested seperately. The effect of UV irradiation at each Se level is tested by the t-test: *= difference significant at P£0.05, **= difference significant at P£0.01. E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:16 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 plant growth, all antioxidative enzymes re- sponded indifferently or negatively to UV. The antioxidative role of Se was confirmed by the observation that irrespective of light conditions it enhanced GSH-Px activity in ryegrass and strengthened the antioxidative capacity of let- tuce when added at non-toxic levels. The indifferent or negative responses of APX, CAT, GST and SOD to added Se under normal light conditions in the first assay indi- cate that the antioxidative role of Se diminish- ing TBARS was not mediated through these en- zymes (Tables 2, 3 and 4). Nevertheless, the added Se may have diminished their demand. As result of increased Se concentration GSH-Px ac- tivity was enhanced, and this made it possible to scavenge more lipid hydroperoxide and H 2 O 2 . Consequently, the need for enzymes using these radicals as substrate (APX, CAT, GST) may have diminished. Takeda et al. (1997) reported for Chlamydomonas cells that without Se- enrichment 40% of external H 2 O 2 was scav- enged by APX and the residual H 2 O 2 by CAT, while in Se-containing medium GSH-Px func- tioned primarily in the removal of external H 2 O 2 . Similar processes may also exist in higher plants. On the other hand, Se might indirectly decrease SOD that catalyses the dismutation of superoxide radicals (O 2 -⋅) to Η 2 O 2 . Superoxide radicals can be used in spontaneous dispropor- tion reactions producing H 2 O 2 and singlet oxy- gen (Thompson et al. 1987). Thus, it can be hy- pothesized that at the same time that Se pro- motes the scavenging of produced H 2 O 2 through increased GSH-Px, it also enhances the sponta- neous disproportion of superoxide radicals and thus reduces the need for SOD, their scavenger. Drotar et al. (1985) have hypothesized that GSH-Px scavenges hydrogen peroxide in cyto- plasmic compartment. There is, however, no agreement about the occurrence of Se-dependent GSH-Px in higher plants. On the other hand, it has been shown for animal cells, where GSH-Px and CAT are localized in different compart- ments, that H 2 O 2 produced, e.g. by mitochondria can diffuse into cytosol, where part of it can be scavenged by GSH-Px. The rest can penetrate further into peroxisomes and be decomposed by CAT (Lawrence and Burk 1978, Fang and Li 1989). When Se is applied, GSH-Px increases and more H 2 O 2 can be scavenged in the cytosol. Thus the quantity of H 2 O 2 penetrating into the peroxisomes is reduced and, accordingly, the demand for CAT is relatively decreased. Since GSH-Px and CAT do not compete for H 2 O 2 in the same compartment and H 2 O 2 scavenged by GSH-Px is only a fraction of the H 2 O 2 scavenged by CAT, an increase in GSH-Px activity cannot completely replace the function of CAT. Although UV irradiation generally dimin- ished the activities of enzymes other than GSH- Px irrespective of Se addition, in combination with Se it increased CAT in the second assays of both plants, SOD in the first lettuce assay and GST in the second ryegrass assay. This suggests that Se may increase the antioxidative capacity of plants by multiple systems that act alone or synergistically and are likely different at differ- ent growing stages. For instance, in the second assay the antioxidative capacity of ryegrass against UV was strengthened by simultanoeus increase in CAT, GST and GSH-Px. On the other hand, depressed GSH-Px activ- ity due to Se toxicity in the first lettuce assay co- incided under UV with enhanced SOD activity. Although GSH-Px and SOD do not share com- mon substrates and GSH-Px cannot scavenge superoxide anion radicals (O 2 -⋅) directly, the en- hancing influence of Se addition on SOD might be caused by increased demand for antioxida- tive capacity to counteract Se toxicity. It is pos- sible that the spontaneous disproportion of su- peroxide radicals producing H 2 O 2 and singlet oxygen (Thompson et al. 1987) was retarded when the scavenger of H 2 O 2 , GSH-Px, was di- minished. Therefore, more SOD activity was needed to detoxify superoxide radicals and to prevent their accumulation. Similarly, GST and CAT were enhanced as response to increased demand of antioxidative capacity to counteract Se toxicity. It is notewor- thy that APX did not increase in order to resist 183 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Vol. 9 (2000): 177–186. E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:16 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 UV-induced oxidative stress and always re- sponded negatively to added Se, although it shares a common substrate H 2 O 2 with GSH-Px and CAT. Analysis of SOD and APX expression carried out by Willekens et al. (1994) in ozone- sensitive Nicotiana tabacum L. cv PBD6 re- vealed that the induction of cytosolic cop- per/zinc SOD and cyt APX under ozone stress occurs only with the onset of visible damage. In the present study, the Se toxicity resulted in visible symptoms, whereas those caused by UV remained less distinct. The results show that the synergistic effect of UV and Se added at non-toxic levels on plant growth is at least partly associated with the anti- oxidative role of Se through increased activity of GSH-Px. 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Val- litsevan käsityksen mukaan korkeammat kasvit eivät tarvitse Se:ä, vaan pikemminkin ovat sille varsin ar- koja. Äskettäin on kuitenkin osoitettu, että sopivan alhaisina pitoisuuksina Se pystyy suojaamaan myös kasveja UV-säteilyn aiheuttamalta hapetusstressiltä ja jopa edistämään säteilyä saaneiden kasvien kas- vua. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitettiin Se:n vaikutuksia antioksidatiivisiin entsyymeihin, jotka mahdollisesti liittyvät havaittuun synergismiin. Kasvihuoneesssa toteutetussa kokeessa kasvatettiin raiheinää ja salaat- tia maassa, johon oli lisätty Se:ä 0,1 mg tai 1,0 mg kg -1 (H 2 SeO 4 :nä) tai jätetty ilman Se-lisäystä. Puolet koekasveista kasvoi normaaleissa valaistusolosuh- teissa, puolet altistettiin 1–3 minuutin episodeina an- netulle UV-säteilylle. Kaksi ja neljä viikkoa kasva- neista kasveista mitattiin lipidien hapettumista mää- rittämällä tiobarbituurihapporeaktiivisten aineiden pitoisuudet (TBARS). Lisäksi niistä määritettiin glu- tationiperoksidaasin (GSH-Px), superoksididismu- taasin (SOD), katalaasin (CAT), glutationi- S-trans- feraasin (GST) ja askorbaattireduktaasin (APX) ak- tiivisuudet. Ilman Se-lisäystä UV-säteilytys pienensi salaatti- satoa (22 %), mutta ei vaikuttanut raiheinän kasvuun. Pienempi Se-lisäys toimi antioksidatiivisesti ja vä- hensi kummassakin kasvissa valaistusolosuhteista 185 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Vol. 9 (2000): 177–186. E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:17 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 riippumatta lipidien hapettumista (TBARS pieneni). Yhdessä UV:n kanssa Se-lisäys edisti molempien kasvien kasvua. Ainakin osittain tämä positiivinen synergistinen vaikutus liittyi lisääntyneeseen GSH- Px:n ja CAT:n aktiivisuuteen, mutta APX reagoi ne- gatiivisesti sekä Se-lisäykseen että UV-säteilyyn. Muiden tutkittujen entsyymien yhteys havaittuun sy- nergismiin näytti olevan kasvilajikohtaista: raihei- nässä se liittyi GST:n aktiivisuuden lisääntymiseen kummassakin kasvuvaiheessa, sen sijaan nuoressa salaatissa nousi SOD. Suurempi Se-lisäys oli toksi- nen ja pienensi kuiva-ainesatoja. Mielenkiintoista oli kuitenkin havaita, että UV-säteilylle altistuneissa kasveissa toksisuus lieveni samalla kun CAT nousi raiheinässä ja SOD salaatissa. 186 A G R I C U L T U R A L A N D F O O D S C I E N C E I N F I N L A N D Tuorila, H. Consumer perceptions and acceptance of nutritionally modified foods E:\asfsjulkaisu\Tailin\Tailin.vp Tue May 30 10:07:17 2000 Color profile: Disabled Composite Default screen 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 0 5 25 75 95 100 Title Introduction Material and Methods Results Discussion References SELOSTUS