Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Root growth and gravireaction: endogenous hormone balance

  • Chapter
Structure and Function of Plant Roots

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 4))

Abstract

The role originally ascribed to indolyl-3-acetic acid (IAA) in the classical hypothesis first proposed by Cholodny [1] and Went [17] has been filled — for root growth and gravireaction — by abscisic acid (ABA) which could be considered [4, 18] as one of the endogenous growth inhibitors [16] produced (at least for maize roots) by the cap cells and moving in the basipetal direction [4–8; 19, 20].

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Cholodny, N. 1926 Beitrage zur Analyse der geotropischen Reaktion. Jahrb. wiss. Bot. 65, 447–459.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Elliott, M.C. 1977 Auxins and the regulation of root growth. In: Pilet P. E.(ed.), Plant Growth Regulation, pp. 100–108. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Pilet, P. E. 1961 Auxins and the process of aging in root cells. In: Klein R. M. (ed.), Plant Growth Regulation, pp. 167–178. Iowa State University Press, Ames.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Pilet, P. E. 1975 Abscisic acid as a root growth inhibitor: physiological analyses. Planta 122, 299–302.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Pilet, P. E. 1976 The light effect on the growth inhibitors produced by the root cap. Planta 130, 245–249.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Pilet, P. E. 1976 Effects of gravity on the growth inhibitors of geostimulated roots of Zea mays L. Planta 131,91–93.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Pilet, P. E. 1977 Growth inhibitors in growing and geostimulated maize roots. In: Pilet P. E. (ed.), Plant Growth Regulation, pp. 115–128. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Pilet, P. E. 1979 Kinetics of the light-induced georeactivity of maize roots. Planta 145,403–04.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Pilet, P. E. and Chanson, A. 1980 Effect of absicis acid on maize root growth. A critical examination. Plant Sci. Lett, (in press).

    Google Scholar 

  10. Pilet, P. E. and Elliott, M. C. 1981 Some aspects of the control of root growth and georeaction: the involvement of IAA and ABA. Plant Physiol, (in press).

    Google Scholar 

  11. Pilet, P. E., Elliott, M. C. and Moloney, M. M. 1979 Endogenous and exogenous auxin in the control of root growth. Planta 146, 405–408.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. Pilet, P. E. and Rivier, L. 1980 Light and dark georeaction of maize roots: effect and endogenous level of abscisic acid. Plant Sci. Lett. 18, 201–206.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Reinhold, L. 1978 Phytohormones and the orientation of growth. In: Letham, D. S., Goodwin, P. B. and Higgins, T. J. V. (eds.), Phytohormones and related compounds: a comprehensive treatise, Vol. II, pp. 251–289. Amsterdam: Elsevier, North-Holland.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Rivier, L. and Pilet, P. E. 1974 Indolyl-3-acetic acid in cap and apex of maize roots: identification and quantification by mass fragmentography. Planta 120, 107–112.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Rivier, L., Milon, H. and Pilet, P. E. 1977 Gas chromatography-mass spectrometric determinations of abscisic acid levels in the cap and the apex of maize roots. Planta 134, 23–27.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  16. Wain, R. L. 1977 Root growth inhibitors. In: Pilet P. E. (ed.), Plant Growth Regulation, pp. 109–114. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Went, F. W. 1928 Wuchsstoff und Wachstum. Ree. Trav. bot. neerl. 25, 1–116.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Wilkins, H. and Wain, R. L. 1975 Abscisic acid and the response of the roots of Zea mays L. seedlings to gravity. Planta, 126, 19–23.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Wilkins, M. B. 1977 Geotropic response mechanisms in roots and shoots. In: Pilet, P. E. (ed.), Plant Growth Regulation, pp. 199–207. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Wilkins, M. B. 1979 Growth control mechanisms in gravitropism. In: Haupt, W. and Feinleib, M. E. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology NS Vol. 7, Physiology of Movements, pp. 601–626.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Plant Biology and Physiology of the University, CH-1005, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Paul Emile Pilet

Authors
  1. Paul Emile Pilet
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Botanical Laboratory, State University of Utrecht, Lange Nieuwstraat, 106-3512 PN, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    R. Brouwer

  2. Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 885 34, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    O. Gašparíková

  3. Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology SAV, 885 34, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    J. Kolek

  4. Department of Agricultural Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PP, Oxford, UK

    B. C. Loughman

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1981 Martinus Nijhoff/Dr W. Junk Publishers, The Hague/Boston/London

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Pilet, P.E. (1981). Root growth and gravireaction: endogenous hormone balance. In: Brouwer, R., Gašparíková, O., Kolek, J., Loughman, B.C. (eds) Structure and Function of Plant Roots. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8314-4_16

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8314-4_16

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Print ISBN: 978-94-009-8316-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-009-8314-4

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation