Light quantity and quality interactions in the control of elongation growth in light-grown Chenopodium rubrum L. seedlings |
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Authors: | A. Ritter E. Wagner M. G. Holmes |
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Affiliation: | (1) Biologisches Institut II der Universität, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-7800 Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany |
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Abstract: | The spectral control of hypocotyl elongation in light-grown Chenopodium rubrum L. seedlings has been studied. The results showed that although the seedlings responded to changes in the quantity of combined red and far-red radiation, they were also very sensitive to changes in the quantity of blue radiation reaching the plant. Altering the proportion of red: far-red radiation in broad waveband white light caused marked differences in hypocotyl extension. Comparison of the responses of green and chlorophyll-free seedlings indicated no qualitative difference in the response to any of the light sources used, although photosynthetically incompetent plants were more sensitive to all wavelengths. Blue light was found to act primarily of a photoreceptor which is different from phytochrome. It is concluded that hypocotyl extension rate in vegetation shade is photoregulated by the quantity of blue light and the proportion of red: far-red radiation. In neutral shade, such as that caused by stones or overlying soil, hypocotyl extension appears to be regulated primarily by the quantity of light in the blue waveband and secondarily by the quantity of light in the red and far-red wavebands.Abbreviations B blue - FR far-red - k1, k2 rate constants for photoconverison of Pr to Pfr and Pfr to Pr, respective - k1/k1+k2= phytochrome photoequilibrium - k1+k2= phytochrome cycling rate - Pr=R absorbing form of phytochrome - Pfr=FR absorbing form of phytochrome - Ptot Pr+Pfr - PAR photosynthetically active radiation = 400–700 nm - R red - WL white light |
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Keywords: | Chenopodium Cryptochrome Elongation growth and light Photoreceptor Photosynthesis Phytochrome |
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