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Plant Physiol, February 2000, Vol. 122, pp. 415-424
Gibberellin Requirement for Arabidopsis Seed Germination Is
Determined Both by Testa Characteristics and Embryonic Abscisic
Acid1
Isabelle
Debeaujon2 and
Maarten
Koornneef*
Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Dreijenlaan 2, 6703 HA Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The
mechanisms imposing a gibberellin (GA) requirement to promote the
germination of dormant and non-dormant Arabidopsis seeds were analyzed
using the GA-deficient mutant ga1, several seed coat
pigmentation and structure mutants, and the abscisic acid (ABA)-deficient mutant aba1. Testa mutants, which
exhibit reduced seed dormancy, were not resistant to GA biosynthesis
inhibitors such as tetcyclacis and paclobutrazol, contrarily to what
was found before for other non-dormant mutants in Arabidopsis. However, testa mutants were more sensitive to exogenous GAs than the wild-types in the presence of the inhibitors or when transferred to a GA-deficient background. The germination capacity of the
ga1-1 mutant could be integrally
restored, without the help of exogenous GAs, by removing the envelopes
or by transferring the mutation to a tt background
(tt4 and ttg1). The double mutants still
required light and chilling for dormancy breaking, which may indicate
that both agents can have an effect independently of GA biosynthesis.
The ABA biosynthesis inhibitor norflurazon was partially efficient in
releasing the dormancy of wild-type and mutant seeds. These results
suggest that GAs are required to overcome the germination constraints
imposed both by the seed coat and ABA-related embryo dormancy.
1
This research was financially supported by the
European Community (Human Capital and Mobility program grant no.
ERB4001GT930753 to I.D.).
2
Present address: Laboratoire de Biologie des
Semences, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Institut
National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Versailles, Route de
Saint Cyr, 78026 Versailles cédex, France.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail
maarten.koornneef{at}botgen.el.wau.nl; fax 31-317-483146.
© 2000 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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