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. 1988 Jan;86(1):71–75. doi: 10.1104/pp.86.1.71

Effect of Shading Individual Soybean Reproductive Structures on Their Abscisic Acid Content, Metabolism, and Partitioning 1

Gary L Yarrow 1,2,2, William A Brun 1,2, Mark L Brenner 1,2
PMCID: PMC1054430  PMID: 16665897

Abstract

Pod set in soybean is related to carbon partitioning and may be, at least partially, regulated by abscisic acid (ABA) concentrations. The studies reported here examine the relationship between carbon and ABA partitioning, reproductive abscission and ABA metabolism. The partitioning of radiolabeled ABA and photoassimilates from leaves to flowers and endogenous ABA concentrations were determined in shaded and unshaded reproductive structures. Aluminum foil was gently placed over individual soybean reproductive structures for 48 hours at 0, 4, 12, 17, and 22 days after anthesis (DAA). Shading of flowers at 12, 17, and 22 DAA resulted in significantly reduced concentration of ABA. However, shading had no effect on the catabolism of exogenously supplied [3H] ABA. The shading treatment on the first four of the five dates reduced partitioning of photoassimilates and ABA from the subtending leaf to the flower. Shading of reproductive structures also caused a significant reduction in the amount of assimilate exported from the subtending leaf, at 17 DAA. We conclude that shade-induced premature reproductive abscission in soybean is not stimulated by high levels of ABA within reproductive structures, but that ABA may inhibit abscission of reproductive structures by playing a role in preferential assimilate partitioning.

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