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In synchronous populations ofScenedesmus quadricauda the RNA amount in the cells increases in waves: periods of a high rate of RNA synthesis alternate with periods of a low rate in the course of the cell cycle. Each wave usually leads to the doubling of the RNA amount per cell. In cells growing under normal conditions the waves of RNA synthesis seem to be linked with consecutive rounds of DNA replication. The pattern of RNA synthesis in the course of the cell cycle, however, does not change, if DNA replication is prevented by application of 5-fluoro-deoxyuridine. In darkness the rate of RNA synthesis drops to zero and thereafter the RNA amount per cell decreases. In cells which have been induced to cellular division RNA synthesis may become restored in the dark in newly formed daughter cells. The lowering of RNA amount and its new increase during the dark period become more pronounced with increasing irradiance in the previous light period as well as with its increasing length. In the period of protoplast fissions RNA synthesis is arrested even if the cells divide in the light; whether a similar inhibition occurs during mitoses is not clear.
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Zachleder, V., Setlík, I. Effect of irradiance on the course of RNA synthesis in the cell cycle ofScenedesmus quadricauda . Biol Plant 24, 341–353 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02909100
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