Abstract
Irradiation with ultraviolet light causes in the hypocotyl of dark-grown gherkin seedlings the partial conversion of trans-hydroxycinnamic acids to the cis-isomers. The trans-hydroxycinnamic acids inhibit the development of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity, and the transformation of these compounds to the much less inhibitory cis-isomers forms a ready explanation for the increase in phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity in the hypocotyl of gherkin seedlings irradiated with ultraviolet light. Arguments are advanced that the increase in phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity caused by irradiation with blue light is also (at least in part) initiated by trans-cis isomerisation of the hydroxycinnamic acids.
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