Abstract
To investigate the abscisic acid (ABA) production of tomato (Mill.) plants in response to diurnal stressful temperatures, five-week old seedlings were exposed to day/night temperatures of 10/5, 15/10, 25/15, 35/25, or 45/35 C. The daylength was 16 hours with a light intensity of approximately 400 microeinsteins per meter per second. Plant tops were sampled at 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours. Free, alkaline-hydrolyzable (conjugated), and total ABA quantities were measured using standard gas chromatographic techniques. All temperature regimes significantly increased both free and conjugated ABA levels over concentrations in control plants (25/15 C). The highest ABA levels were observed in plants exposed to the coolest temperature of 10/5 C. Since normal water potentials were obtained in plants of all treatments, the observed ABA response was not due to temperature-induced water stress. Therefore, temperature stress, like several other environmental stresses, induces the plant to produce high levels of ABA. Because of the similar involvement of ABA in temperature-induced and other environmental stresses, ABA may be a common mediator for all plant stresses.
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