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Activities of RNasea were studied in cotyledons of dormant and afterripenedAgrostemma githago seeds. Activity of RNase increases during imbibition and germination. This increase in activity cannot be observed in variants which are not able to germinate (dormant seeds and seeds blocked by higher temperature). The development of RNase activities during germination cannot be inhibited by concentrations of cycloheximide or actinomycine D completely preventing phosphatase synthesis. These results may be indicative for the assumption that the increase of RNase during germination is caused by enzyme activation and not by enzyme synthesis. Cytokinins and a combination of cycloheximide and gibberellic acid stimulate the activity of RNase in dormant cotyledons, whereas neither cycloheximide nor gibberellic acid, applicated by themselves, show any effect. Cytokinins and gibberellic acid do not influence the activity of RNase of afterripened cotyledons, abscisic acid inhibits the increase of enzyme activity.
There are characteristic changes in the pattern of RNases during germination revealed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The increase in RNase activity of dormant cotyledons caused by cytokinins is accompanied by obvious changes in the RNase pattern on polyacrylamide gel. Treating dormant cotyledons with cytokinins dormancy is partially overcome. In consequence of the application of cytokinins the differences in the electrophoretic RNase pattern between dormant and afterripened cotyledons can be nearly balanced.
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Schmerdee, B., Hecker, M. Untersuchungen über rnasen in kotyledonen von nachgereiften und dormantenagrostemma githago-samen. Biol Plant 18, 351–358 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922461
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