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Plant Physiology 68:41-43 (1981) © 1981 American Society of Plant Biologists Hypocotyl Growth and Peroxidases of Bidens pilosus1EFFECT OF COTYLEDONARY PRICKINGS AND LITHIUM PRETREATMENT
Laboratoire de Phytomorphogenèse, 4, rue Ledru, 63000-Clermont-Ferrand, France, Laboratoire de Biologie végétale, 22, quai Van Beneden, 4020-Liège, Belgium
Pricking one cotyledon of young Bidens pilosus plants induces rapid inhibition of hypocotyl growth, essentially in its middle portion. Analysis of soluble peroxidases indicates rapid changes (increase of activity) in basic isoenzymes followed by more progressive enhancement of the acidic ones. Pretreatment of the plants with lithium prevents the inhibition of elongation due to pricking as well as the peroxidase changes. The phenomenon is similar to the previously described thigmomorphogenetic process in Bryonia dioica.
1 Research supported by the French CNRS (LA 45, RCP 474, ATP 4108) and by the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective (grant 2.9009 to T. G.). This article has been cited by other articles:
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