Indole auxins in spinach plants grown in long and short days |
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Authors: | Ljubinka Ćulafić Mirjana Nešković |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Science, and Institute for Biological Research, Institute of Botany, Beograd
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Abstract: | The endogenous auxin-like substances were analyzed in the shoot extracts of young spinach seedlings, exposed to photoperiodic induction. At least eight indole auxins were found. One of them was identified as tryptophan, the other one is most probably IAA. The plants grown in long days had a higher level of ether soluble auxins than the controls in short days. Separate extractions of plants after each of the eight inductive days showed that the auxin content was not constant, but subjected to irregular oscillations. However, parallel oscillations were also found in control plants grown in short days. Staminate plants were found to contain more endogenous auxins than the pistillate ones. It is concluded that the quantitative changes in auxins during the photoperiodic induction are probably not related to flowering, but to some other growth process, common to all plants in that phase of growth. The higher level of auxins in staminate plants may be the cause of their faster elongation before the onset of flowering. |
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