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Meristematic Activity during Adventitious Root Primordium Development

Influences of Endogenous Auxin and Applied Gibberellic Acid

^a Institute of Forest Genetics, North Central Forest Experiment Station, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rhinelander, Wisconsin 54501

Intact brittle willows (Salix fragilis L.) were treated so that developing adventitious root primordia in the stems would be subjected to elevated gibberellic acid or reduced endogenous auxin levels. Observations were made of primordia that were initiated during the experiments and of primordia that were established before the experiments began. The results indicated that as primordia became older and contained more cells, auxin basipetally transported in the stem seemed to be of less importance in determining cell number per primordium. Thus, established primordia depended upon this auxin to a lesser extent than primordia which were being initiated. These observations were explained on the basis of differential contributions during primordium development of cell division in the cambium of the stem and in the primordia themselves. As opposed to the effects of reduced auxin levels, applied gibberellic acid reduced the cell number per primordium most in established primordia. Initiating primordia were least affected by gibberellic acid treatment. Gibberellic acid treatment seemed mainly to reduce intraprimordium cell division, on which continued development of established primordia most depends. Seemingly, at least in brittle willow, applied gibberellic acid blocks the action of auxin in primordium development subsequent to the initiation phase.

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