Abstract
Phytochrome controls the appearance of many enzymes in the mustard (Sinapis alba L.) cotyledons. The problem has been whether the effect of phytochrome on the appearance of enzymes in this organ is due to a common initial action of Pfr, e.g. due to the liberation of a “second messenger”. We have compared the modulation by light (phytochrome) of the appearance of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL)+ and ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase (Carboxylase)+. PAL becomes detectable in the mustard cotyledons at 27 h after sowing while Carboxylase starts to appear only at 42 h after sowing (starting points, 25° C). The starting points cannot be shifted by light. As a major result, in the case of PAL the inductive effect of continuous red light (given from the time of sowing) remains fully reversible by 756 nm-light up to the starting point (27 h after sowing) while with Carboxylase full reversibility in continuous red light is lost at approximately 15 h after sowing. While the induction of Carboxylase is already saturated at a very low level of Pfr (e.g. continuous 756 nm-light saturates the response) and does not depend on irradiance (e.g. continuous 675 mW m-2 red light and 67.5 mW m-2 red light lead to the same time course), PAL induction is a graded response over a wide range of Pfr doses and depends strongly on the fluence rate (high irradiance response, HIR). It is concluded that PAL induction and Carboxylase induction are not only separated in time but differ in every regard except that both responses are mediated by phytochrome.
The present data support the previous conclusion that the specification of the temporal and spatial pattern of development is independent of phytochrome even though the realization of the pattern of development can only occur in the presence of phytochrome (Pfr). It seems that there is no feedback from pattern realization to pattern specification.
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Abbreviations
- Pfr :
-
the far-red absorbing, physiologically active form of phytochrome
- Pr :
-
the red absorbing physiologically inactive form of phytochrome
- Ptotal :
-
[Pr]+[Pfr]
- PAL:
-
phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (EC 4.3.1.5)
- Carboxylase:
-
ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.39)
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Frosch, S., Drumm, H. & Mohr, H. Regulation of enzyme levels by phytochrome in mustard cotyledons: Multiple mechanisms?. Planta 136, 181–186 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00396196
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