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The stability of the postulated wall-loosening enzyme in acid-induced growth

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Long-term pretreatments with cycloheximide (CH) caused inhibition of subsequent acidinduced growth of Avena coleoptile segments, but only after 6 or more h of CH treatment. These results together with previous, published evidence with frozen-thawed tissue are consistent with the hypothesis that there exists a wall-loosening enzyme responsible for acid-induced elongation and that it has a half-life of at least 7–8 h.

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  1. Department of Botany, Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Morris G. Cline

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Cline, M.G. The stability of the postulated wall-loosening enzyme in acid-induced growth. Planta 145, 389–391 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00388366

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