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Development and Growth Regulation

Phenotypic Expression of Wild-Type Tomato and Three Wilty Mutants in Relation to Abscisic Acid Accumulation in Roots and Leaflets of Reciprocal Grafts ¹

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv Rheinlands Ruhm (RR) and cv Moneymaker and the three wilty mutants flacca (flc), sitiens (sit), and sitiens^w (sit^w), together with most reciprocal grafts, were grown in pots and in solution culture. Detached leaflets, and control and steam-girdled intact plants, were left turgid or were wilted in air. Detached leaflets and the leaflets and roots of the intact plants were analyzed for their abscisic acid (ABA) content. Turgid RR leaflets contained about 2.9 ng ABA per milligram dry weight. On average, the flc and sit leaflets contained 33 and 11% of this amount, respectively. The lack of ABA approximately correlated with the severity of the mutant phenotype. Mutant roots also contained less ABA than wild-type roots. Wild-type scions on mutant stocks (wild type/mutant) maintained the normal phenotype of ungrafted plants. Mutant scions grafted onto wild-type stocks reverted to a near wild-type phenotype. After the wild-type leaves were excised from solution culture-grown mutant/wild-type plants, the revertive morphology of the mutant scions was maintained, although endogenous ABA levels in the leaflets fell to typical mutant levels and the leaflets became wilty again. When stressed in air, both leaflets and roots of RR plants produced stress-induced ABA, but the mutant leaflets and roots did not. The roots and leaflets of the grafted plants behaved according to their own genotype, with the notable exception of mutant roots grown with wild-type scions. Roots of flc and sit^w recovered the ability to accumulate stress-induced ABA when grafted with RR scions before the stress was imposed.

¹ Supported by the National Science Foundation through grant No. PCM 83-14321 and by the United States Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-76ER01338.

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