Abstract
A technique is described for the processing of regenerated xylem and sieve tubes from the same wound area for microscopic and quantitative comparison.
Regeneration was examined in internodes of 2 developmental stages in Coleus: internode 2, elongating, characteristic of primary growth; and internode 5, non-elongating, characteristic of secondary growth.
Transport of indoleacetic acid (IAA) in excised number 5 internodes of Coleus is strictly polar, in a basipetal direction, judging by a regeneration bioassay involving both sieve tube strands and xylem cells. Similar results were obtained with tomato.
If isolated number 5 Coleus internodes are not treated with hormone, they regenerate no xylem cells and a small number of sieve tube strands. With increasing concentrations of IAA added apically, the number of regenerated sieve tube strands (and, with higher concentrations, of xylem cells) increases progressively up to 1% IAA, the highest concentration applied.
Internode 2 of Coleus regenerates fewer xylem cells or sieve tube strands than internode 5, whether on the otherwise intact plant or with a given concentration of IAA added apically. The amount of regenerated xylem increases with added apical IAA, except that the highest concentration gives no further increase. The number of xylem cells regenerated in intact plants occurs at the same interpolated IAA concentration as in number 5 internodes. No concentration of IAA tried provided replacement of intact number of sieve tube strands in internode 2.
IAA can exert a regenerative stimulus on both xylem and sieve tubes in the area immediately adjacent to the site of its application.
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