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Metabolism of Tritiated Gibberellin A₉ by Shoots of Dark-grown Dwarf Pea, cv. Meteor ¹

^a Department of Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary T2N 1N4, Alberta, Canada

Tritium-labeled gibberellin A₉ (³H-GA₉) was metabolized by etiolated shoots of dwarf pea (Pisum sativum cv. Meteor) to GA₂₀, GA₁₀, 2,3-dihydro-GA₃₁, and a number of highly polar, acidic GA-like substances. Identifications were made by gasliquid radiochromatography and combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Kinetic studies showed that GA₃₀ and 2,3-dihydro-GA₃₁ were produced within 5 hours following ³H-GA₉ application to pea shoots. The polar GA-like substances were produced between 5 and 10 hours after ³H-GA₉ application. Levels of GA₁₀ increased with time, and since no GA₁₀ was produced during the purification procedures, GA₁₀ was, in all probability, produced from ³H-GA₉ within the plant tissue. The radioactive interconversion products produced by pea from ³H-GA₉ have chromatographic properties similar to biologically active GA-like substances present in etiolated shoots of dwarf pea. Large scale applications of ³H-GA₉ with very low specific activity to etiolated pea shoots showed that the radioactivity of the interconversion products was correlated exactly with biological activity as assayed by dwarf rice (Oryza sativa cv. Tan-ginbozu).

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¹ This work was supported by a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science Research Council (London, U.K.) postdoctoral fellowship to I.D.R., by grants from the National Research Council of Canada (A-2585) to R.P.P., and a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Research Grant to J. MacMillan and R.P.P.

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