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. 1968 May;43(5):823–826. doi: 10.1104/pp.43.5.823

Response of Tissue With Different Phytochrome Contents to Various Initial Photostationary States 1

L Raymond Fox 1, William S Hillman 1
PMCID: PMC1086931  PMID: 16656846

Abstract

Pretreatment of etiolated pea plants with red light and with red combined with far-red light produced morphologically similar plants having 4-fold differences in spectrophotometrically detectable phytochrome. Stem segments from the variously pretreated plants respond in the same way to different percentage conversions of phytochrome to PFR. These results suggest that the PFR./PR ratio, rather than the concentration of PFR, governs pea stem segment elongation. However, the ratio hypothesis does not explain contradictions between spectrophotometric and physiological assays previously obtained with this tissue, nor does it explain similar contradictions obtained in other systems. The only hypothesis consistent with the data to date is that of the existence of bulk and active phytochrome fractions, with the latter present in insufficient quantities to be spectrophotometrically detectable.

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