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Does the Induction of Flowering by Photoperiod Change the Polarity or Other Characteristics of Indole-3-acetic Acid Transport in Petioles for the Short Day Plant, Xanthium? ¹

Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

To test the hypothesis that photoinduction acts by changing the ability of the plant to transport hormones, rather than by changing the ability of organs to synthesize them, the transport of carboxy-labeled indole-3-acetic acid was measured in the short day plant Xanthium pensylvanicum. Plants grown under noninductive conditions were matched for developmental stage, then assigned by a mathematically random method to either short day or noninductive conditions of "short day + light break." After the plants had been subjected to one to seven cycles, the movement of auxin was followed through sections cut from the middle of petioles of various ages. Photoinduction, even with as many as seven cycles, had no effect on auxin movement in either the basipetal or acropetal direction. Auxin movement in vegetative Xanthium was similar to that in Coleus and Phaseolus: strongly polar in a basipetal direction through younger petioles, but with polarity declining with increasing petiole age and concomitant decreasing elongation.