Role of cytokinins in growth correlations between roots and stems in pea (Pisum sativum L.) seedlings

H. Fišerová, J. Šebánek, J. Hradilík, P. Doležel and H. Vítková
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H. Fišerová: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic
J. Šebánek: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic
J. Hradilík: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic
P. Doležel: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic
H. Vítková: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2006, vol. 52, issue 4, 159-163

Abstract: Pea seeds were swollen in solutions with different concentrations of cytokinin benzyladenine (BA). As compared with controls, a low concentration of BA (0.05 mg/l) did not affect the growth of stems and roots of twelve-day-old seedlings but concentrations of 0.20-4.00 mg/l showed an inhibiting effect; this inhibition was proportional to the concentration of BA. In controls the ratio between the lengths of stems and roots was equal to 1.14, while in seedlings influenced by BA in concentration of 0.20 mg/l its value was significantly lowered to 0.91. Also in six-day-old pea seedlings cultivated under in vitro conditions, BA concentrations of 0.70 and 3.30 mg/l inhibited the growth of roots and epicotyls and significantly increased the production of ethylene (by 150 and 330%, respectively). Three hours after the amputation of the root of five-day-old pea seedlings the level of cytokinin trans-zeatin increased in the apical part of the stem. Within the interval of 48 hours after the amputation of the root the concentration of this plant hormone gradually decreased again. The initial increase in the zeatin level in the stem indicates that the absence of the root induces a reduction of growth-inhibiting effects of roots, which negatively influences the zeatin level in the stem apex at the beginning of germination.

Keywords: benzyladenin; trans-zeatin; ethylene (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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