Abstract
Avena seedlings were germinated and grown while continuously rotated on the horizontal axis of a clinostat. The coleoptiles of these gravity-compensated plants were phototropically more responsive than those of plants rotated on a vertical axis. When the plants were compensated after unilateral irradiation, phototropic curvature of the shoot progressed for the next 6 hours, with the rate of curving decreasing about 3 hours after irradiation. The decrease in rate was less in the plants gravity-compensated before irradiation than in those vertically rotated. In the period 70 to 76 hours after planting, the growth rate of the compensated coleoptiles was significantly less than that of the vertically rotated seedlings. The greater phototropic curvature, the decreased growth rate, and the slower rate of straightening of the curved, compensated shoot can be correlated with several consequences of compensation: an increase in sensitivity to auxin, a lowering of auxin content in the coleoptile tip, and possibly, from an interaction between compensation and phototropic stimulation, an enhanced difference in auxin transport between the illuminated and shaded halves of the unilaterally irradiated shoot.
The phototropic response of the vertically rotated seedling was significantly different from that of the vertical stationary, indicating the importance of vertically rotated controls in clinostat experiments.
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