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Plant Physiology 41:831-841 (1966)
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Hormonal Relations in the Phototropic Response IV. Light-Induced Changes of Endogenous Auxins in the Coleoptile 1

J. Shen-Miller and S. A. Gordon

Division of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Beside indoleacetic acid (IAA), 3 auxins were found by chromatographic resolution of acidic fractions of Avena and Zea coleoptile tips. One of these auxins, designated P, occurred at levels of activity approaching those of IAA. The other 2 auxins, termed F and M, occurred at lower levels of activity. When the auxins of the excised coleoptile tips were isolated immediately after equilateral or unilateral irradiation with blue light at first positive energies, the ratio of IAA to the other auxins increases. This rise is the result of a decrease in P and F, and probably an increase in IAA. Light did not affect materially the total auxin content. It is suggested that P and F might be associated with the basipetal transport inequalities of IAA in phototropism.

P has been partially characterized. Its RF on chromatograms developed in ammoniacal isopropanol is about 0.65. It is converted to IAA in vitro by heat. The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of chromatographically resolved P also suggests an indolyl complex. P is not readily transported basipetally, and the slope of its relative concentration-response curve (Avena section test) is lower than that of IAA. P does not appear to be any of the chemically characterized native auxins.

1 Work supported by the United States Atomic Energy Commission.




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