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Plant Physiology 46:782-785 (1970)
© 1970 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Effects of Growth Regulators on Ribonucleic Acid Metabolism of Barley Leaf Segments

Rozanne Poulson and Leonard Beevers

1 Department of Horticulture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Illumination or gibberellic acid treatment of etiolated barley leaf segments stimulates unrolling and results in an increased level of RNA. In contrast, segments treated with abscisic acid do not unroll and have a lower content of RNA. Gibberellic acid treatment enhanced the capacity of segments to incorporate radioactivity from 32P-orthophosphate into all the RNA components detected by gel electrophoresis; abscisic acid greatly restricted the incorporation of precursors into all the RNA fractions. In conjunction with a changed capacity for RNA synthesis it was observed that abscisic acid-treated segments had a lowered soluble DNA-dependent RNA polymerase level in comparison to gibberellic acid-treated or illuminated segments. However, the influence of growth regulators on RNA polymerase content of the segments was associated with general effects on protein level rather than a specific effect on the synthesis of polymerase enzyme.

Ribosomal preparations from gibberellic acid-treated segments had a greater percentage of polysomes and a greater capacity for amino acid incorporation in vitro into proteins than similar preparations from abscisic acid-treated segments.






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