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Development and Growth Regulation

The Endogenous Gibberellins of Dwarf Mutants of Lettuce ¹

Sinsheimer Laboratories, Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 ITS, United Kingdom

The gibberellin (GA) content of E-1, a tall genotype of early flowering lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), and of three selected GA-responsive dwarfs, dwf1, dwf2, and dwf2¹, has been determined using ¹³C-labeled internal standards and gas chromatographymass spectrometry (GC-MS). In the shoots of the E-1 parent, GA₁, 3-epi-GA₁, GA₃, GA₅, GA₈, GA₁₉, GA₂₀, GA₂₉, and GA₅₃ were identified by full scan GC-MS and Kovats retention indices. Purification by immunoaffinity chromatography selective for 13-hydroxy GAs, was necessary for GA identification. Relative to the parent E-1, the concentrations of GA₁, GA₈, GA₂₀, and GA₂₉ in the shoots of dwf2 plants were reduced to about 10% and in shoots of dwf2¹ plants to less than 50%. In dwf1 the levels of GA₁, GA₈, and GA₂₉ were also reduced to less than 50% of the parent E-1, but the level of GA₂₀ was fivefold higher than in E-1. Plant height was correlated with the endogenous levels of GA₁ and GA₈.

¹ Financial support from the California Iceberg Lettuce Research Program (W. W.) and the Agricultural and Food Research Council, UK (J. MacM.) is gratefully acknowledged.

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