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Dark-grown, 3-day-old soybean seedlings were sprayed with 1 mM 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid 24 hours before harvest. Mitochondria from 2,4-D-treated lower hypocotyls were found to be larger and showed greater incorporation in vivo, of amino acids into protein and phosphate into phospholipids and RNA, than mitochondria from untreated tissue. Mitochondria isolated from 2,4-D-treated hypocotyls showed an enhanced energy-dependent incorporation of amino acids into protein, although the incorporation of nucleoside triphosphates into the RNA of isolated mitochondria was not affected. No effect of 2,4-D, applied in vitro, was noted, and no enhancement of mitochondrial respiratory efficiency followed auxin treatment. A method of isolating mitochondria with a very low level of bacterial contamination is reported.
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Baxter, R., Hanson, J.B. The effect of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid upon the metabolism and composition of soybean hypocotyl mitochondria. Planta 82, 246–260 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00398203
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