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Plant Physiology 78:29-33 (1985)
© 1985 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Interaction between Senescence and Wounding in Oat Leaves 1

G. Giridhar and Kenneth V. Thimann2

The Thimann Laboratories, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064

A study was made of the influence of wounding on the senescence of standard oat leaf segments in the dark. Wounding was by either subdividing the 3 centimeter long segments into 5 millimeter subsegments, gently scraping the adaxial surface of the segments with a sharp blade, making transverse linear cuts, or by making many small holes with a needle. Wounding considerably delayed the loss of both chlorophyll and protein in the dark and the amount of inhibition was roughly proportional to the intensity of wounding. With surface wounding, the inhibition of senescence was detectable from the first day of dark incubation; other methods caused moderate promotion of senescence for the first 2 days but decreased the loss of chlorophyll and protein thereafter. A number of senescence-modifying substances acted similarly on both unwounded and wounded segments, but the amount of chlorophyll and protein in the wounded segments was always more than in the respective controls. Cytokinins, however, provided an exception, since their effect was actually decreased by wounding. The proteases operating at pH 4.1 and 6.6 were both clearly less active in the wounded leaves than in controls. The possible mechanism of this inhibitory effect of wounding on senescence is discussed.

2 Present address: AREC, 18905 S. W. 280th Street, Homestead, FL 33031.

1 Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation to K. V. T. (No. PCM 80-21584).






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