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Cytokinin activities ofN 6-benzyladenosine derivatives hydroxylated on the side-chain phenyl ring

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Cytokinin activities ofN 6-benzyladenosine (bzl6Ado) and its derivatives hydroxylated on the side chain phenyl ring inortho, meta, andpara positions were compared in four bioassays based on stimulation of growth of tobacco callus, retention of chlorophyll in excised wheat leaves, dark induction of betacyanin synthesis inAmaranthus cotyledons, and release of lateral buds of pea from apical dominance. In all these bioassays hydroxylation of the phenyl ring of bzl6Ado inortho andpara positions significantly decreased cytokinin activity. Compared with bzl6Ado, the activity was decreased about 10× in the tobacco callus bioassay and wheat leaf chlorophyll retention test, 100× in theAmaranthus betacyanin bioassay, and 20× and 200×, respectively, in the pea bud test. Hydroxylation of the phenyl ring inmeta position increased activity in the tobacco callus, and wheat leaf chlorophyll retention bioassays, 9× and 1.7×, respectively, decreased activity about 2.4× in the pea bud test and was without effect in theAmaranthus bioassay. Cytokinin activity of themeta hydroxy derivative,N 6-(m-hydroxybenzyl) adenosine, was as high as that oftrans-zeatin in all four bioassays. Possible regulation of biological activities of cytokinins by positionally specific hydroxylation of the side chain phenyl ring is discussed with respect to the reported occurrence of natural purinyl cytokinins with aromatic side chains.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ke dvoru 15, 166 30, Prague 6, Czechoslovakia

    M. Kamínek & Václav Motyka

  2. Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo n. 2, 166 10, Prague 6, Czechoslovakia

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Kamínek, M., Vaněk, T. & Motyka, V. Cytokinin activities ofN 6-benzyladenosine derivatives hydroxylated on the side-chain phenyl ring. J Plant Growth Regul 6, 113–120 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02026460

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