Plant Physiology 54:863-869 (1974)
© 1974 American Society of Plant Biologists
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Growth Rate and Turgor Pressure
Auxin Effect Studies with an Automated Apparatus for Single Coleoptiles 1
Paul B. Green and
W. Raymond Cummins2
a Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Because turgor pressure is regarded as the driving force for cell extension, any general theory of plant growth requires quantitative information on the relationship between steady irreversible growth rate and turgor pressure. To investigate contrasting views of this relation an automated apparatus was constructed which perfused both the outer and inner epidermis of a single coleoptile while its growth rate was continuously recorded. Turgor was altered abruptly by perfusing with solutions of varying tonicity. With specially grown rye coleoptiles the half-time of the osmo-elastic response was reduced to 2 minutes or less. After decay of this response, however, rate continued to change (so as to partially compensate the effects of the turgor shift in question) for 30 to 60 minutes. Only then could a steady rate be taken. A characterization of steady rate versus turgor covering five turgor values for a single coleoptile thus required many hours. The conclusions are as follows. (a) The change in steady rate, per unit change in turgor, was much greater +IAA than –IAA. (b) Both auxin and turgor act to reset an apparent stabilizing system whose presence is shown in the partial compensation of the initial response to turgor shifts. The above "extensibility" changes are operational only. They need not reflect changes in the immediate physical extensibility of the wall; they could reflect changes in a process acting on the wall. (c) The growth rate versus turgor relation shows some hysteresis.
2 Present address: Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
1 This investigation was supported by National Science Foundation Grant GB 28667A1.
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