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Contents and Recovery of Gibberellins in Monoecious and Gynoecious Cucumber Plants ¹

MSU/AEC Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823

Diffusates from seedlings and root exudates from 6-week-old plants of a monoecious line of cucumber, Cucumis sativus L., contained considerably higher levels of gibberellin-(GA-) like substances than did those from plants of an isogenic gynoecious line. Most of the GA-like activity was found in a chromatogram region typical of GA₁ and GA₃; some activity, particularly in root exudates, appeared also at an R_F similar to that of GA₄ and GA₇.

When seedlings were treated with ³H-labeled GA₁, more radioactivity was found in the diffusates from monoecious seedlings than from gynoecious ones. The same was true of biological activity in root diffusates from older plants which had been treated with gibberellin A₄₊₇.

In conjunction with evidence present in literature, these results support the idea that endogenous GAs play a part in the regulation of sex expression in cucumber, relatively high levels favoring the formation of staminate flowers.

¹ This research was carried out under United States Atomic Energy Commission Contract No. AT-(11-1)-1338.