Modification of Apparent Phytochrome Synthesis in Pisum by Inhibitors and Growth Regulators
- 1 July 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 42 (7), 933-940
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.42.7.933
Abstract
The repeated exposure of Pisum [sativum] (pea) plants to red light brings into operation an apparent synthesis of phytochrome which is not observed in material kept in the dark. This process shows some temperature compensation but has an optimum at 26[degree]; it is irreversibly inhibited by 10-4 M cycloheximide and 10 [mu]g/ml actinomycin D. It is also inhibited by the auxins indoleacetic acid, naphthalene acetic acid and 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid at 10-4 M but in these cases the inhibition is completely reversed when the auxin is washed out of the tissue. Antiauxins 2, 4, 6-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and p-chloro-phenoxy isobutyric acid, while strongly inhibiting growth have little effect on apparent synthesis. Other growth regulators and the precursor of tetrapyrrole synthesis, [delta] -aminolevulinic acid, have no consistent effect on the process, but 3 x 10-4 M cobalt (II) nitrate is inhibitory. The capacity for apparent synthesis decreases as the cells approach maturity. The results may be explained by either de novo synthesis of phytochrome, or by a transformation process resembling in some respects the dark reversion of Pfr to Pr. The physiological role of apparent synthesis is suggested.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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