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DEVELOPMENT AND HORMONE ACTION

Brassinosteroids Do Not Undergo Long-Distance Transport in Pea. Implications for the Regulation of Endogenous Brassinosteroid Levels¹

School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia

It is widely accepted that brassinosteroids (BRs) are important regulators of plant growth and development. However, in comparison to the other classical plant hormones, such as auxin, relatively little is known about BR transport and its potential role in the regulation of endogenous BR levels in plants. Here, we show that end-pathway BRs in pea (Pisum sativum) occur in a wide range of plant tissues, with the greatest accumulation of these substances generally occurring in the young, actively growing tissues, such as the apical bud and young internodes. However, despite the widespread distribution of BRs throughout the plant, we found no evidence of long-distance transport of these substances between different plant tissues. For instance, we show that the maintenance of steady-state BR levels in the stem does not depend on their transport from the apical bud or mature leaves. Similarly, reciprocal grafting between the wild type and the BR-deficient lkb mutants demonstrates that the maintenance of steady-state BR levels in whole shoots and roots does not depend on either basipetal or acropetal transport of BRs between these tissues. Together, with results from ³H-BR feeding studies, these results demonstrate that BRs do not undergo long-distance transport in pea. The widespread distribution of end-pathway BRs and the absence of long-distance BR transport between different plant tissues provide significant insight into the mechanisms that regulate BR homeostasis in plants.

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^* Corresponding author; e-mail g_symons{at}utas.edu.au; fax 61–3–62262698.

Received March 21, 2004; returned for revision May 16, 2004; accepted May 17, 2004.

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