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Photocontrol of Anthocyanin Synthesis

IV. Dose Dependence and Reciprocity Relationships in Anthocyanin Synthesis ¹

^a Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027

Under continuous far red light, anthocyanin synthesis in young, dark-grown cabbage seedlings (Brassica oleracea cv. Red Acre) is irradiance-dependent and fails to follow the reciprocity (irradiance x time = constant) relationships. Under intermittent far red treatments extended over a prolonged period of time, anthocyanin synthesis becomes dose dependent, and reciprocity relationships are valid. Intermittent far red treatments with short dark intervals between successive irradiations are as effective as continuous treatments, if the total radiation doses applied with the two types of treatments are equal and are applied over equally long periods of time. The high effectiveness of inter-mittent treatments, the dose dependence, and the validity of the reciprocity relationships suggest that cycling between red-absorbing form of phytochrome and far red-absorbing form of phytochrome and the formation of electronically excited far red-absorbing form of phytochrome, or the involvement of a second photoreactive system, besides phytochrome, may play only a minor role in high irradiance reaction anthocyanin synthesis brought about by prolonged exposures to far red irradiation.

¹ Research was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grants GB-35460 and BMS74-19976 to A.L.M.

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