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Auxin-induced growth, epidermal cell length, cellular osmotic potential, and cell wall composition of coleoptile segments excised from one normal and two dwarf rice strains were studied 2, 3, 4, and 5 days after soaking. The auxin-induced growth was higher at the early stages of coleoptile growth and decreased with age, being always higher in normal than in the two dwarf strains. A good correlation between auxin-induced growth and auxin-induced decrease in the minimum stress-relaxation time has been found, suggesting that the different growth capacity in response to auxin among the three different strains is due to differences in the structure of their cell walls. In fact, cell wall analysis revealed that (1) the relative α-cellulose content of the cell walls was higher in the two dwarf strains than in the normal one, and (2) the auxin-induced decrease in noncellulosic glucose was high, compared with dwarf strains, in the normal strain, which showed the higher auxin-induced growth, showing a highly significant correlation between the decrease in noncellulosic glucose and the growth in response to auxin. Thus, the different growth between normal and dwarf strains might be attributed to their different capacity to degrade β-glucan of their cell walls.
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Revilla, G., Zarra, I. & Masuda, Y. Growth capacity in response to auxin of coleoptile segments of normal and dwarf rice strains. J Plant Growth Regul 4, 159–168 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02266953
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