Planta

, Volume 136, Issue 1, pp 65–70 | Cite as

Mild temperature “stress” and callose synthesis

  • M. M. Smith
  • M. E. McCully
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Abstract

Seedlings of Zea mays L., Sorghum vulgare, Pisum sativum L., Phaseolus aureus, Glycine max L. and Lycopersicum esculentum were grown at 20°C and at 26°C. The seedlings were fixed in glutaraldehyde and sections were examined for aniline-blue-induced fluorescence, which is supposedly indicative of β-1,3-glucans or callose. There was much more aniline-blue fluorescence in Zea, Glycine and Phaseolus seedlings grown at 20°C compared with 26°C whereas Pisum and Lycopersicum seedlings grown at 26°C showed more fluorescence than those grown at 20°C. In Zea, large deposits of fluorescent material were particularly noticeable in the walls of elongating cells around the shoot apex and in root-cap cells, and appeared to be closely associated with a few of the pitfields. The remaining pitfields showed the normal, low level of aniline-blue fluorescence.

Key words

Callose Temperature stress 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • M. M. Smith
    • 1
  • M. E. McCully
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of BiologyCarleton UniversityOttawaCanada

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