Endogenous light-on rhythm in respiration of a long-day duckweed, Lemna gibba G3 III. Relationship to frond production |
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Authors: | MlYATA HlSAO |
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Affiliation: | Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University Nagoya 464, Japan |
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Abstract: | Relationship between the C>2-uptake rhythm and frond productionin a long-day duckweed, Lemna gibba G3, was investigated. The rate of frond production and the amplitude of the rhythmwere dependent on light intensity. Photosynthetic inhibitors,CMU and DCMU, at concentrations effective in stopping frondproduction, abolished the O2-uptake rhythm after a lag of 1day. In the presence of inhibitors of protein and RNA syntheses,ETH, CH and TU, at concentrations which brought about completeinhibition of frond production, the O2-uptake rhythm disappeared.FUdR, an inhibitor of DNA synthesis, did not eliminate the rhythmalthough it suppressed frond production. This indicates a ratherindirect correlation between the rhythm and the rate of frondproduction which, in turn, is probably related to photosynthesis.The rhythm may be more directly correlated with the cell expansion. (Received July 27, 1971; ) |
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