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Plant Physiology 47:417-422 (1971)
© 1971 American Society of Plant Biologists

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The Regulation of Cambial Division and Secondary Xylem Differentiation in Xanthium by Auxins and Gibberellin 1

Terry L. Shininger2

a Botany Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

Cambial division continued in decapitated Xanthium plants without concomitant xylem fiber differentiation. The application of indoleacetic acid to these plants did not affect the production of cambial derivatives or induce xylem fiber differentiation. When naphthaleneacetic acid was applied either to the second internode or to the stump of a lateral shoot, xylem fiber differentiation was induced in the newly formed cambial derivatives on the xylem side of the cambium in the stem. When naphthaleneacetic acid was applied unilaterally, xylem fiber differentiation was restricted to that side of the stem in the first internode and hypocotyl. Naphthaleneacetic acid also enhanced the production of cambial derivatives. Gibberellic acid enhanced cambial derivative production but did not affect the differentiation of xylem fibers. Similar numbers of cambial derivatives were produced in some naphthaleneacetic acid-treated plants in which xylem fiber differentiation was induced and in gibberellic acid-treated plants which did not differentiate xylem. When naphthaleneacetic acid was applied 72 hours after decapitation, the oldest of the cambial derivatives on the xylem side failed to develop into fibers although younger cells did. These results suggest that auxin has its direct effect on the induction of xylem differentiation rather than the induction of divisions prerequisite to differentiation.

2 Present address: Botany Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 55455.

1 This work was supported by a National Defense Education Act Title IV Predoctoral Fellowship.






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