Specific tropism caused by ultraviolet C radiation in Phycomyces |
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Authors: | Virginia Martín-Rojas Heribert Greiner Theodor Wagner Leonid Fukshansky Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo |
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Affiliation: | (1) Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Sevilla, Apartado 1095, E-41080 Sevilla, Spain;(2) Institut für Biologie II, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg i. Br., Germany;(3) Present address: Hoffmann-LaRoche, AG 65/303, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | The giant sporangiophores of Phycomyces blakesleeanus turn towards blue and away from ultraviolet C sources (wavelength under 310 nm). We have isolated fifteen mutants with normal blue tropism but defective ultraviolet tropism. Wild-type sporangiophores described a double turn when exposed successively to blue and ultraviolet beams coming from the same side; under certain conditions, the mutants turned only to the blue. The new uvi mutations modified the behaviour in heterokaryosis and were lethal in homokaryosis, i.e., they affected essential cellular components. The responses of the wild type and one of the mutants were registered and evaluated with a computer-aided device. The mutant behaved normally under blue light, but took longer than the wild type to turn away from the ultraviolet source. With very weak ultraviolet stimuli (10(-8) and l0(-9) W m-2), the wild type turned towards the source, but the mutant did not respond. Calculations of absorbed-energy distributions in the sporangiophore showed that Phycomyces responds differently to similar spatial distributions of blue and ultraviolet radiations. Wild-type and mutant sporangiophores had the same high ultraviolet absorption due to gallic acid. We conclude that ultraviolet tropism is not just a modification of blue phototropism due to the high ultraviolet absorption of the sporangiophores. Phycomyces has a separate sensory system responsive to ultraviolet radiation, but not to blue light. |
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Keywords: | Blue light Gallic acid Phycomyces (uvi mutants) Tropism Ultraviolet-C radiation |
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