Abstract
Submerged hypocotyl sections from Helianthus have been used to test the effect of neutral buffers on shoot geotropism. When hypocotyls have been abraded, it is found that increasing the molarity (0.25 to 20 mm) of pH 6.8 K-phosphate buffer, as well as other buffering systems, results in a strong inhibition of geotropic curvature. Buffer strength has no such effect on the curvature of nonabraded segments. One possible explanation for these data is that asymmetric shoot growth following geostimulation may require the establishment of a proton gradient across the cell walls of the shoot. When neutral buffers have access to the wall space (i.e. in abraded segments), they may prevent the establishment of such a gradient.
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