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Development and Growth Regulation

Auxin Effect on the Transmembrane Potential Difference of Wild-Type and Mutant Tobacco Protoplasts Exhibiting a Differential Sensitiity to Auxin ¹

Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 78000, Versailles, France

The effects of 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) and other auxin analogs on the transmembrane potential difference (Em) were compared on tobacco protoplasts isolated from two genotypes differing in their sensitivity to auxins. For both types, NAA modifies Em by inducing at low doses a hyperpolarization, the amplitude of which increased with auxin concentration. Above an optimal concentration this hyperpolarization was reduced and even nullified. However, for the mutant type, this electrical response was shifted toward higher NAA concentrations, as its growth response. In the presence of structural analogs of auxin which have been showed to modify the dose-response curve for growth, the Em was altered: the growth-stimulatory molecule (picloram) initiated hyperpolarization, whereas the growth-inhibitory substance (4-bromophenylacetic acid) caused depolarization. These results provide evidence for a specific action of auxin at the membrane level related to its biological activity.

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