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Plant Physiology 96:1131-1135 (1991)
© 1991 American Society of Plant Biologists

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Development and Growth Regulation

Inhibition by Ethylene of Auxin-Promotion of Flower Bud Formation in Tobacco Explants Is Absent in Plants Transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes

Marinus J. M. Smulders, Anton F. Croes, Anke Kemp, Karin M. Hese, Frans Harren and George J. Wullems

Molecular Plant Physiology Research Group, Department of Experimental Botany, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The in vitro regeneration of flower buds was studied in pedicel explants from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L., cv Petit Havana) transformed with Agrobacterium rhizogenes, pRi 1855 (agropine type). At a low concentration (0.1 micromolar) of 1-naphthalene-acetic acid, pedicel strips from phenotypically aberrant plants regenerated two to three times more flower buds than explants from untransformed tobacco. Intermediate bud numbers were observed in transformants with a less extreme phenotype. The results can be explained by an increased sensitivity of the transformed explants to auxin with respect to flower bud regeneration. The effect of transformation on the auxin response is fully accounted for by the absence of a negative interaction of endogenous ethylene with 1-naphthaleneacetic acid, a phenomenon normally encountered in untransformed tissues. Three observations led to this conclusion. Application of 1 micromolar AgNO3 to untransformed explants increased the number of flower buds to the level observed in transformed tissues but had no effect on transformed pedicel strips; exposure to 10 microliters per liter ethylene strongly reduced the response to auxin at all concentrations in untransformed explants but was almost ineffective in the transformed tissues; and endogenous ethylene synthesis occurred at the same rate in both types of explants.






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