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Plant Physiology 92:912-918 (1990)
© 1990 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Development and Growth Regulation

Inverse Relationship between Polyamine Levels and the Degree of Phenotypic Alteration Induced by the Root-Inducing, Left-Hand Transferred DNA from Agrobacterium rhizogenes

J. Martin-Tanguy, D. Tepfer, M. Paynot, D. Burtin, L. Heisler and C. Martin

Station de Physiopathologie Végétale, INRA, BV 1540, 21034 Dijon Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Biologie de la Rhizosphère, INRA, 78026 Versailles Cedex, France

Floral induction in plants is a paradigm for signal perception, transduction, and physiological response. The introduction of root-inducing, left-hand transferred DNA (Ri T-DNA) into the genomes of several plants results in modifications of flowering (D Tepfer [1984] Cell 47: 959-967), including a delay in flowering in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). Conjugated polyamines are markers for flowering in numerous species of plants. In tobacco their accumulation is correlated with the onset of flowering (F Cabanne et al. [1981] Physiol Plant 53: 399-404). Using tobacco, we have explored the possibility of a correlation between the expression of Ri TL-DNA and changes in polyamine metabolism. We made use of two levels of phenotypic change, designated T and T', that retard flowering by 5 to 10 and 15 to 20 days, respectively. We show that delay in flowering is correlated with a reduction in polyamine accumulation and with a delay in appearance of conjugated polyamines, and we propose that genes carried by the Ri TL-DNA intervene either directly in polyamine metabolism or that polyamine metabolism is closely linked to direct effects of Ri T-DNA expression.




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