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When [1-14C]indol-3yl-acetic acid ([1-14C]IAA) was applied to the upper surface of a mature foliage leaf of garden pea (Pisum sativum L. cv. Alderman), 14C effluxed basipetally but not acropetally from 30-mm-long internode segments excised 4 h after the application of [1-14C]IAA. This basipetal efflux was strongly inhibited by the inclusion of 3.10−6 mol· dm3 N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid (NPA) in the efflux buffer. In contrast, when [14C] sucrose was applied to the leaf, the efflux of label from stem segments excised subsequently was neither polar nor sensitive to NPA. The [1-14C]IAA was initially exported from mature leaves in the phloem — transport was rapid and apolar; label was recovered from aphids feeding on the stem; and label was recovered in exudates collected from severed petioles in 20 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. No 14C was detected in aphids feeding on the stems of plants to which [1-14C]IAA had been applied apically, even though the internode on which they were feeding transported considerable quantities of label. Localised applications of NPA to the stem strongly inhibited the basipetal transport of apically applied [1-14C]IAA, but did not affect transport of [1-14C]IAA in the phloem. These results demonstrate for the first time that IAA exported from leaves in the phloem can be transferred into the extravascular polar auxin transport pathway but that reciprocal transfer probably does not occur. In intact plants, transfer of foliar-applied [1-14C]IAA from the phloem to the polar auxin transport pathway was confined to immature tissues at the shoot apex. In plants in which all tissues above the fed leaf were removed before labelling, a limited transfer of IAA occurred in more mature regions of the stem.
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Abbreviations
- IAA:
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indol-3yl-acetic acid
- EDTA:
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ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
- NPA:
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N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid
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We are grateful to the Nuffield Foundation for supporting this research under the NUF-URB95 scheme and for the provision of a bursary to A.J.C. We thank Professor Dennis A. Baker for constructive comments on a draft of this paper and Mrs. Rosemary Bell for her able technical assistance.
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Cambridge, A.P., Morris, D.A. Transfer of exogenous auxin from the phloem to the polar auxin transport pathway in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Planta 199, 583–588 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00195190
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