Abstract
Dark recovery of blue light-induced in vitro phosphorylation in oat (Avena sativa L.) seedlings after in vivo preirradiation with blue light revealed different recovery kinetics for the coleoptile base and tip. Although, in both cases, maximum in vitro phosphorylation was observed 90 min after in vivo blue light treatment, the phosphorylation levels for the entire base were about 3-fold higher than those found in nonpreirradiated plants. The tip response only slightly exceeded that of the dark controls. The fluence applied during preirradiation determined the extent of the increase in phosphorylation. Consequently, unilateral irradiation and subsequent dark incubation resulted in a more pronounced increase in phosphorylation in the irradiated than in the shaded side of the coleoptile base. Furthermore, blue light-irradiation conditions, known to induce neither first- nor second-positive curvature in nonpreirradiated plants, stimulated both asymmetric distribution of protein phosphorylation and second-positive phototropic curvature in the coleoptile base when administered to blue light-pretreated plants. Based on these data, we conclude that photosensitivity of the coleoptile base increases upon exposure to blue light in a time-and fluence-dependent manner, providing an excellent explanation of the invalidity of the Bunsen-Roscoe reciprocity law for second-positive phototropism.
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