Rapid phytochrome regulation of wheat seedling extension: light pretreatment extends coupling time, increases response lag, and decreases light sensitivity.

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  • H Smith
  • G M Jackson
چکیده

Rapid effects of light on wheat seedling extension growth were monitored by sensitive transducer techniques. Seedlings grown in complete darkness responded to light by a marked deceleration of extension growth after a mean latent period of 10.4 minutes. Pulses (5 minutes) of red (660 nanometers), green (530 nanometers), and far-red (730 nanometers) light caused marked extension rate depression, and the red effect could not be reversed by 730 nanometers far-red. Pulses of 1 second red (72 micromoles per square meter) were effective, and were reversible by immediate long wavelength (759 nanometers) far-red. Seedlings pretreated with 2 minute broadband green light (0.6 micromole per square meter), 28 hours prior to the experimental light treatments, displayed similar extension rate decelerations in response to red light, but after a longer mean lag of 23.75 minutes. No response was observed with red light treatments of less than 1 minute, and the effects of 5 minutes of red light were fully reversible by 5 minutes of 730 nanometers far-red. Fluence-response curves showed that nonpretreated seedlings were approximately 100 times more sensitive to far-red-absorbing form of phytochrome than were those given prior light treatment. Although the fluence-response relationship for nonpretreated seedlings matched the photoconversion kinetics of phytochrome reasonably well, that for the pretreated seedlings indicated a requirement for repeated photoconversions for maximum action. The results are discussed in relation to the possibility that phytochrome may regulate the availability, or the activity, of a component of its own transduction chain.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Plant physiology

دوره 84 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1987