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Ethylene Production by Plant Cell Cultures

Variations in Production during Growing Cycle and in Different Plant Species ¹

^a National Research Council of Canada, Prairie Regional Laboratory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Suspension cultures of Rosa sp., soybean (Glycine max L.), wheat (Triticum monococcum L.), sweet clover (Melilotus alba Desc.), Haplopappus gracilis Nutt., and rue (Ruta graveolens) produced ethylene. The amount varied with the species. The rate of formation in rose and Haplopappus cells paralleled growth but accelerated when the stationary phase was reached, after which the rate declined sharply. Light was not required for ethylene production. Exogenous ethylene could not replace 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or naphthalineacetic acid in the cell cultures, and there was no stimulation of growth in the normal medium. Ethylene at 20 mM reduced growth of Ruta and rose cells by 30 and 20%, respectively. The amounts of ethylene produced by the cultures do not affect growth.