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. 1971 Jul;68(7):1631–1633. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.7.1631

Hormone-Controlled Synthesis of Endoplasmic Reticulum in Barley Aleurone Cells

Warren H Evins 1,*, J E Varner 1
PMCID: PMC389256  PMID: 5283956

Abstract

The rate of synthesis of the endoplasmic reticulum in barley aleurone cells after treatment with gibberellic acid was determined by measurement of [14C]-choline incorporation into acid-insoluble material in a semipurified fraction containing the endoplasmic reticulum. 94% of the 14C incorporated into this fraction is extractable by lipid solvents and only 9% is removed by procedures for nucleic acid extraction. Gibberellic acid increases the rate of synthesis of the endoplasmic reticulum 4- to 8-fold, starting about 4 hr after addition of the hormone (at about the same time as polysome formation). Abscisic acid inhibits this gibberellic acid-enhanced increase in the rate of synthesis of endoplasmic reticulum.

Keywords: gibberellic acid, abscisic acid

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