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Flowering behavior of 22 strains ofLemna paucicostata collected in Japan by Yukawa and Takimoto (1976) was re-examined. The critical dark periods of the short-day strains (N-1 and N-2 types) were shorter than those determined by Yukawa and Takimoto except for that of one strain. Particularly in strains 391, 381 and 321, the differences were as large as 2.25, 1.75 and 1.5 hr, respectively. Such differences were found to be due at least partly to the difference in night temperature; 25 C for the light and 23 C for the dark periods in the present experiment, and 25 C throughout the light and dark periods in the previous experiment. The S type strains did not flower under our experimental conditions (fluorescent light of 6,000 lux at 25 C) at any photoperiod tested, but flowered as a quantitative long-day plant under natural daylight or high-intensity light (12,000 lux). Addition of sucrose or ammonium ion to the medium suppressed the flowering of these strains under high-intensity light.
Addition of benzoic acid (1–5 μM) to 0.5 strength NH4 +-free Hutner's medium caused daylength-independent flowering in some N-1 type strains and in all N-2 type strains tested. S type strains cultured under fluorescent light of 6,000 lux also flowered rapidly in response to benzoic acid.
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Beppu, T., Takimoto, A. Further studies on the flowering ofLemna paucicostata in Japan. Bot. Mag. Tokyo 94, 69–76 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488265
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