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Phytochrome-mediated flavone glycoside synthesis in cell suspension cultures of Petroselinum hortense after preirradiation with ultraviolet light

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Ultraviolet light was demonstrated to stimulate flavone glycoside synthesis in Petroselinum cell suspension cultures. The data presented suggest the involvement of phytochrome in this response: Flavone glycoside formation resulting from 1 h of ultraviolet irradiation was increased by subsequent continuous far-red light irradiation. However, the ultraviolet effect was reduced by a subsequent irradiation with 10 min of far-red. This far-red effect was fully reversed by a sub-sequent irradiation with 10 min of red. Red and far-red irradiations were ineffective without ultraviolet preirradiation. It is concluded that in this system ultraviolet irradiation is required in order to change the cells in such a way as to allow a physiological effectiveness of the phytochrome system.

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    Eckard Wellmann

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Wellmann, E. Phytochrome-mediated flavone glycoside synthesis in cell suspension cultures of Petroselinum hortense after preirradiation with ultraviolet light. Planta 101, 283–286 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386835

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