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Influences of plant hormones on photoperiodic flowering in Pharbitis nil, var. Violet was re-evaluated by assaying them with a newly developed perfusion technique which can directly treat mesophyll cells with sample solution. Gibberellin A3 promoted the flowering response and indole-3-acetic acid, trans-zeatin and abscisic acid inhibited it when they were perfused immediately before an inductive dark treatment. The promotion or inhibition of flowering was not or hardly observed when solutions containing these plant hormones were applied by the dropping method to surface of cotyledons or plumules of the assay plants. The detection of clear flower-promoting and -inhibiting effects of the plant hormones may be due to the improved efficiency of incorporation of applied substances into plant tissue in the perfusion technique.
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Takeno, K. Influences of plant hormones on photoperiodic flowering in Pharbitis nil: re-evaluation by the perfusion technique. Plant Growth Regul 20, 189–194 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00043307
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