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. 1971 Oct;48(4):402–406. doi: 10.1104/pp.48.4.402

Regulation of Auxin Levels in Coleus blumei by Ethylene 1

Leland C Ernest a,2, Jack G Valdovinos a
PMCID: PMC396876  PMID: 16657808

Abstract

An investigation of the effects of ethylene pretreatment on several facets of auxin metabolism in Coleus blumei Benth “Scarlet Rainbow” revealed a number of changes presumably induced by the gas. Transport of indoleacetic acid-1-14C in excised segments of the uppermost internode was inhibited by about 50%. Decarboxylation of indoleacetic acid-1-14C by enzyme breis was not affected by the pretreatment. Levels of extractable native auxin in upper leaf and apical bud tissue of the pretreated plants were approximately one-half of those present in untreated plants. The rate of formation of auxin from tryptophan by enzyme breis from pretreated plants was approximately one-half that occurring in incubation mixtures containing the enzyme system from untreated plants. The conjugation of indoleacetic acid-1-14C in a form characterized chromatographically as indoleacetylaspartic acid was increased 2-fold in the upper stem region of plants pretreated with ethylene.

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