Showing papers on "Gibberellic acid published in 1987"

Gibberellins regulate seed germination in tomato by endosperm weakening: a study with gibberellin-deficient mutants

Abstract: The germination of seeds of tomato [Lycopersicon esculentum (L.) Mill.] cv. Moneymaker has been compared with that of seeds of the gibberellin-deficient dwarf-mutant line ga-1, induced in the same genetic background. Germination of tomato seeds was absolutely dependent on the presence of either endogenous or exogenous gibberellins (GAs). Gibberellin A4+7 was 1000-fold more active than commercial gibberellic acid in inducing germination of the ga-1 seeds. Red light, a preincubation at 2°C, and ethylene did not stimulate germination of ga-1 seeds in the absence of GA4+7; however, fusicoccin did stimulate germination independently. Removal of the endosperm and testa layers opposite the radicle tip caused germination of ga-1 seeds in water. The seedlings and plants that develop from the detipped ga-1 seeds exhibited the extreme dwarfy phenotype that is normal to this genotype. Measurements of the mechanical resistance of the surrounding layers showed that the major action of GAs was directed to the weakening of the endosperm cells around the radicle tip. In wild-type seeds this weakening occurred in water before radicle protrusion. In ga-1 seeds a similar event was dependent on GA4+7, while fusicoccin also had some activity. Simultaneous incubation of de-embryonated endosperms and isolated axes showed that wild-type embryos contain and endosperm-weakening factor that is absent in ga-1 axes and is probably a GA. Thus, an endogenous GA facilitates germination in tomato seeds by weakening the mechanical restraint of the endosperm cells to permit radicle protrusion.

Rapid clonal propagation of guava through in vitro shoot proliferation on nodal explants of mature trees

Abstract: In vitro clonal propagation of guava ‘Banaras local’ was achieved by culturing nodal explants of mature trees on Murashige and Skoog (MS) revised medium supplemented with 4.5 μM 6-benzyladanine (BA) alone or in combination with either 0.6 μM indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), 0.5 μM indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) or 0.3 μM gibberellic acid (GA3). Multiple shoots were induced to form by enhancement of axillary branching and BA (4.5 μM) without any auxin and gibberellin was found to give best shoot multiplication rate. In this medium 3–6 shoots developed on explants collected from field-grown plants and 5–10 shoots developed on explants taken from in vitro proliferated shoots within 12 wk of culture. A prior transfer of shoot clumps to a medium containing a lower concentration of BA (0.5 μM) before harvesting of cuttings for rooting allowed rapid extension growth and increased the number of usable shoots per culture. Adventitious rooting occurred after subculturing excised shoots on a medium containing 1/2 strength MS salts, 1.5% sucrose, 1 μM each of IBA and α-naphtha-leneacetic acid (NAA), and 1 gl-1 activated charcoal. Regenerated plantlets were successfully established on soil.

Gibberellin and Abscisic Acid in Germinating Cereals

Abstract: Study of the response of cereal aleurone to gibberellic and abscisic acids (GA and ABA, respectively), particularly with reference to α-amylase synthesis, has made a significant contribution to our understanding of GA action in plant cells especially as it relates to the control of protein synthesis. While much of the work has been carried out using isolated aleurone from a single cultivar of barley (“Himalaya”), it seems so far that the principles which have emerged from this system can be applied to in vivo behaviour of other cereal grains.

Endogenous Abscisic Acid and Indole-3-Acetic Acid and Somatic Embryogenesis in Cultured Leaf Explants of Pennisetum purpureum Schum. Effects in Vivo and in Vitro of Glyphosate, Fluridone, and Paclobutrazol

Abstract: Effects of application in vivo of glyphosate, fluridone, and paclobutrazol to glasshouse-grown donor plants of Pennisetum purpureum Schum. on endogenous levels of abscisic acid (ABA) and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in young leaves and on somatic embryogenesis in cultured leaf explants were studied. Treatment of plants with glyphosate (100 milligrams per liter) resulted in elevated levels of endogenous ABA and IAA in young leaves. In contrast, paclobutrazol (50% active ingredient; 200 milligrams per liter) did not alter the endogenous levels of ABA and IAA. Fluridone (100 milligrams per liter) markedly inhibited synthesis of ABA and leaf explants from fluridone-treated plants lost the capacity for somatic embryogenesis. Explants from glyphosate- or paclobutrazol-treated plants did not show any reduction in embryogenic capacity when compared with untreated control plants. Glyphosate and fluridone were also incorporated into the culture media at various concentrations (0 to 20 milligrams per liter) to study their effects in vitro on somatic embryogenesis in leaf explants from untreated, field-grown plants. Glyphosate was inhibitory to somatic embryogenesis but only at concentrations above 5 milligrams per liter. Fluridone inhibited somatic embryogenesis at all concentrations tested. Inhibition of somatic embryogenesis by fluridone, by either in vivo or in vitro application, could be overcome partially by (±)-ABA added to the culture medium. Exogenous application of (±)-ABA enhanced somatic embryogenesis and reduced the formation of nonembryogenic callus. Application of IAA or gibberellic acid (GA3; >5 milligrams per liter) was inhibitory to somatic embryogenesis. These results indicate that endogenous ABA is one of the important factors controlling the embryogenic capacity of leaf explants in Napier grass.

Plantlet formation from callus and shoot-tip culture of Helianthus annuus (L.)

Abstract: A method for callus induction, adventitious bud regeneration, shoot multiplication and rooting of in vitro formed shoots of Helianthus annuus L. var. Argentario is described. Hypocotyl and cotyledon explants formed callus on medium containing 2 mgl−1 naphthalene acetic acid and 0.5 mgl−1 benzyladenine. Adventitious buds were formed on hypocotyl segments on medium containing 0.5–2 mgl−1 benzyladenine. The optimal level of sucrose concentration for shoot regeneration from hypocotyls was 1.5%. Multiplication from shoot apices was promoted by kinetin (2 mgl−1) plus gibberellic acid (5 mgl−1), benzyladenine (2 mgl−1) plus gibberellic acid (10 mgl−1) or at lower frequency by benzyladenine (1 mgl−1). A general feature of the plantlets formed in vitro was the “precocious flowering”.

Phytohormone effects on cell division in Chlorella pyrenoidosa Chick (TX-7-11-05) (Chlorellaceae)

Abstract: Phytohormone effects on cell division of synchronous cultures ofChlorella pyrenoidosa (TX-7-11-05) were studied under different photo flux densities. The time required for initiation of incipient cell division was reduced significantly by treatment with kinetin (6-furfurylaminopurine), gibberellic acid, and indole-3-acetic acid. Data show that kinetin was more effective than gibberellic acid, which was more effective than indole-3-acetic acid. Studies with combinations of the phytohormones revealed no antagonistic, additive, or synergistic effects.

The Influence of Girdling and Gibberellic Acid Application at Fruitset on Ruby Seedless and Thompson Seedless Grapes

Abstract: The effects of girdling and gibberellic acid (GA) on berry weight, soluble solids concentration, and yield of Ruby Seedless and Thompson Seedless table grapes were determined. Treatments included trunk girdling and GA application (40 mg/L) to entire vines, shoots only, or clusters only at fruitset. Berry growth and development were monitored several times between fruitset and harvest. Girdling increased berry weight approximately 0.8 g for both cultivars. GA applied to entire vines or to clusters only significantly (p

Potential of fed-batch culture in solid state fermentation for production of gibberellic acid

Abstract: Fed-batch culture technique, applied to the solid state fermentation process for the production of gibberellic acid, improves the yield by 182% as compared to a conventional batch solid state fermentation

Gibberellin-Induced Changes in the Populations of Translatable mRNAs and Accumulated Polypeptides in Dwarfs of Maize and Pea

Abstract: Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis was used to characterize the molecular mechanism of gibberellin-induced stem elongation in maize and pea. Dwarf mutants of maize (d-5) and pea (Progress No. 9) lack endogenous gibberellin (GA1) but become phenotypically normal with exogenous applications of this hormone. Sections from either etiolated maize or green pea seedlings were incubated in the presence of [35S] methionine for 3 hours with or without gibberellin. Labeled proteins from soluble and particulate fractions were analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and specific changes in the patterns of protein synthesis were observed upon treatment with gibberellin. Polyadenylated mRNAs from etiolated or green maize shoots and green pea epicotyls treated or not with gibberellin (a 0.5 to 16 hour time course) were assayed by translation in a rabbit reticulocyte extract and separation of products by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Both increases and decreases in the levels of specific polypeptides were seen for pea and corn, and these changes were observed within 30 minutes of treatment with gibberellin. Together, these data indicate that gibberellin induces changes in the expression of a subset of gene products within elongating dwarfs. This may be due to changes in transcription rate, mRNA stability, or increased efficiency of translation of certain mRNAs.

Hybridization between diploid (Gossypium arboreum) and tetraploid (Gossypium hirsutum) cotton through ovule culture

Abstract: With in vitro culture of ovules, interspecific hybrids have been obtained in an otherwise incompatible cross between a diploid (Gossypium arboreum) and a tetraploid (G. hirsutum) cultivated cotton. The early abortion of the embryo was prevented by repeated treatment of the flowers, immediately after pollination with a solution of gibberellic acid and naphthalene acetic acid. The ovules excised three days after pollination and cultured in a liquid medium underwent profuse proliferation, whereas on an agar-solidified medium supplemented with casein hydrolysate, indoleacetic acid and kinetin they germinated to form hybrid plants.

Use of an in vitro tuberization system to study tuber protein gene expression

Abstract: Nodal cuttings from micropropagated potato plantlets give rise to microtubers when placed on Murashige and Skoog medium containing 6% sucrose and 2.5 mg/liter kinetin and incubated in the dark at 19 degrees C. Microtubers produced from the cultivar Superior were shown to contain the same characteristic group of proteins as field-grown tubers. As with field-grown tubers, the 40,000-dalton major tuber glycoprotein, patatin, accumulated to high levels in microtubers, reaching 3.7 +/- 0.2 mg/g fresh weight after 90 d. Also in agreement with field-grown plants, stems and leaves of micropropagated plantlets did not contain detectable levels of patatin, but small amounts of an electrophoretically distinct form accumulated transiently in roots. Patatin mRNA is readily detectable in developing microtubers 15 d after transfer of the cuttings to inductive medium. Patatin mRNA was also present in roots, but as with field-grown plants, was 50- to 100-fold less abundant and could be distinguished from that in tubers by primer extension. Microtuber development and patatin accumulation were inhibited by gibberellic acid.

Does gibberellic acid induce the transfer of lipase from protein bodies to lipid bodies in barley aleurone cells

Abstract: We have examined the effect of gibberellic acid (GA3) on the distribution of the enzyme responsible for mobilizing storage triacylglycerol in aleurone cells of Hordeum vulgare L. cv Himalaya. Using cellular fractionation techniques, we find that, in cells that have not been exposed to hormone, neutral lipase activity is principally associated with a pellet containing the membranes of protein bodies. If the cells are exposed to GA3 for at least 1 hour, the majority of the lipase activity becomes associated with the lipid body fraction. The nature of the in vivo association between lipid bodies and protein bodies was examined using ultrarapid freezing followed by freeze-fracture electron microscopy. Our analysis indicates that the phospholipid monolayer surrounding the lipid body is directly continuous with the outer leaflet of the bilayer surrounding the protein body. Based on our data, we propose that lipase can be transferred from protein bodies (storage form) to lipid bodies (active form) by lateral diffusion within the plane of the fused phospholipid monolayer, and that the transfer can be controlled by gibberellic acid by an unknown mechanism.

An auxin-induced polypeptide in dicotyledonous plants.

Abstract: Antisera were raised to a 70-kD (kilodalton) soybean (Glycine max) protein encoded by a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) inducible mRNA, GH3. These antisera have been used to probe protein blots to study the kinetics and specificity of the GH3 induction response as well as the species specificity and intracellular location of the protein. Detectable levels of the GH3 protein are induced by 2,4-D within 2 h in elongating hypocotyl sections, root sections, and etiolated plumules, and within 30–60 min in soybean suspension cells. Synthesis of the GH3 protein is induced by a variety of auxins. Other plant hormones such as gibberellic acid, cytokinin and ethylene added with or whithout 2,4-D do not alter the level of GH3 protein induction. The GH3 protein is found only in the S100 fraction and is not associated with the nucleus or cell wall. This antiserum also reacts with a 2,4-D-inducible 70-kD protein in other dicots.

Gibberellic acid effects on the ultrastructure of endocarp cells of unpollinated ovaries of Pisum sativum

Abstract: Ultrastructural changes of endocarp cells of unpollinated pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Alaska) ovaries treated and non-treated with gibberellic acid (GA3) were studied. Following treatment with GA3, the differentiation of cells of the middle zone of the endocarp into sclerenchyma occurred in 3 phases: initial, elongation and maturation. In the initial phase a proliferation of endocarp cells was produced in both GA3treated and non-treated ovaries. Changes in the cell membrane system (Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, plasmalemma) and the formation of primary and secondary cell wall were observed in the 2nd and 3rd phases of treated ovaries. In nontreated ovaries senescence followed the initial phase. These results indicate that GA3 induced the processes involved in the elongation and maturation phases.

Hormone directed sucrose transport during fruit set induced by gibberellins in Pisum sativum

Abstract: A new system has been developed to study hormone-directed transport in intact plants during parthenocarpic fruit set induced by gibberellins. Gibberellic acid (GA3) and gibberellin A1 (GA1) applied to unpollinated ovaries of pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Alaska) promoted sucrose transport from the leaf to the site of hormone application. In vivo experiments showed an early (30 min) accumulation of [14C]-sucrose in ovaries of pea stimulated by gibberellins. This activation of sucrose transport appears to be mediated by gibberellins (GA1, GA3), increasing both loading of phloem with sucrose in the leaf (source) and sucrose unloading in the ovary (sink). The ability of pea tissue segments to take up sucrose in vitro was not affected by the hormonal treatment.

Net CO2 Assimilation Rate of Grapevine Leaves in Response to Trunk Girdling and Gibberellic Acid Application

Abstract: Net CO(2) assimilation rate (A), stomatal conductance (g(s)), and weight per unit leaf area (W) were determined on Thompson Seedless grapevines grown in the field. Treatments included fruit set applications of gibberellic acid (40 milligrams gibberellic acid (GA(3)) per liter) to vines, shoots and clusters, alone and in combination with trunk girdling. Leaf A and g(s) were measured prior to and 3, 6, and 13 days after fruit set. Weight per unit leaf area was determined on leaves collected subsequent to gas exchange measurements. Leaf A of girdled vines was reduced approximately 30% when compared to the control 13 days after treatment. The reduction in A due to girdling was not as great when vines were sprayed with GA(3). GA(3) sprays alone had no significant effect on A. Stomatal conductance was reduced by girdling 13 days after treatment. Weight per unit leaf area was 17% greater for trunk girdled vines when compared to the controls. Results indicate GA(3) affected net CO(2) assimilation rate only on girdled vines, a treatment which increased weight per unit leaf area.

Effects of growth regulators on light‐dependent anthocyanin production in Zea mays seedlings

Abstract: Rengel, Z. and Kordan, H. A. 1987. Effects of growth regulators on light-dependent anthocyanin production in Zea mays seedlings. The effects of ethylene, indolyl- and naphthylacetic acids, zeatin, benzyladenine, gib-berellic acid and triiodobenzoic acid on anthocyanin production in seedlings of Zea mays L. cv. Golden Bantam were investigated. Endogenously produced and exogen-ously supplied ethylene, as well as the other growth regulators tested markedly suppressed anthocyanin formation. Except for triiodobenzoic acid, the other growth regulators stimulated ethylene production, the amounts produced in the light being larger than those in the dark. Absorption of ethylene by permanganate as well as inhibition of ethylene production or action by Co2+ or Ag+ increased anthocyanin formation in maize seedlings above the level found in the control plants. The inhibiting effect of auxins and cytokinins on anthocyanin production was reversed by Co2+ or Ag+. In contrast, decreased anthocyanin formation caused by gibberellic acid or triiodobenzoic acid seemed unrelated to ethylene and could not be alleviated by Co2+ or Ag+.

Effect of abscisic and gibberellic acids on malate synthase transcripts in germinating castor bean seeds.

Abstract: Several clones complementary to malate synthase mRNA have been identified in a complementary-DNA library to mRNA from castor bean endosperm. One of these clones has been used as a probe to measure levels of transcripts during seed germination and the effects of gibberellic acid and abscisic acid on these levels have been examined.

Shoot growth in willow (Salix viminalis) in relation to abscisic acid, plant water status and photoperiod

Abstract: The decline in growth rate of field-grown willow trees in Aberystwyth, U.K., began in mid-summer and was followed by the senescence and abortion of shoot tips. These events were not triggered by a decline in the length of the natural photoperiod but were coincident with low leaf water potentials that developed in summer. Transient increases in the abscisic acid (ABA) content of shoot tips were observed during the period of declining water potential. These increases were roughly coincident with the onset of growth decline and preceded abortion and senescence of shoot tips. Under controlled conditions growth of both rooted cuttings and potted plants was arrested by short days (8 h) without any increase in tip ABA levels. Growth of rooted cuttings under long days (16 h) was inhibited by exogenous ABA; this inhibition could be relieved by addition of gibberellic acid (GA3) to the nutrient solution. Growth of aseptically cultured apices was also inhibited by ABA; this inhibition was relieved by joint application of GA9 and zeatin riboside.

Induction of somatic embryogenesis and embryo development in Rumex acetosella L.

Abstract: Axillary buds of the dioecious plant Rumex acetosella L. were isolated and cultured in vitro. The callus tissue which developed at the basal parts of the explants displayed a high capacity for shoot formation. This morphogenetic pattern was predominant on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 2% sucrose, 2.2 mgl-1 benzylaminopurine and 0.17 mgl-1 indole-3-acetic acid. Somatic embryogenesis was induced when the osmolality of the medium was increased by adding 6% sucrose instead of 2%, or hexitols in addition to 2% sucrose. Most of the embryogenic calli were formed on the basal parts of leaf laminae and bracts. Development and maturation was strongly promoted by transferring the tissue to a solid or liquid medium lacking benzylaminopurine and indole-3-acetic acid and supplemented with 10 mgl-1 gibberellic acid. The embryos germinated and developed into normal rosette plants when transferred to vermiculite moistened with hormone-free, half-strength MS salt solution. The histology of successive embryogenic stages is presented.

Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in callus culture derived from immature seeds and mature zygotic embryos of Dysosma pleiantha (Hance) Woodson.

Abstract: Callus was induced on the wounded immature seeds and mature zygotic embryos of Dysosma pleiantha (Hance) Woodson (Berberidaceae) on a medium based on Murashige and Skoog's (1962) formula supplemented with 1 mg/l 2,4-dichlorophenoxy-acetic acid (2,4-D). Spontaneous embryoid formation occurred on the media containing low concentrations of 2,4-D (0.1–0.5 mg/l). These embryoids germinated in either MS or B5 medium containing 1 mg/l N6-benzyladenine and 1 mg/l gibberellic acid. The regenerated plantlets were successfully transferred to soil.