The Mechanism of Calcium Action on Flower Induction in Pharbitis nil
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Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart
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Calcium ions, calcium ionophores A23187 and ionomycin, as well as caffeine, stimulated the flowering of Pharbitis nil when applied just before and 2 h after starting a subinductive, 14-h long dark period. Effectiveness of all the mentioned compounds decreased over successive hours and when used from 6 h after the onset of the dark period they had no effect or inhibited flowering. Intracellular calcium modulators, ryanodine and thapsigargicin, which are active in animal cells had no effect on flowering. These results suggest that an increase in free Ca2 + before and during the first 2 h of the dark period increases the flowering responses, whereas after the 6th hour it decreases it. We postulate that the targets for calcium action are stomata, which are open before the dark period and remain closed during the first 4 - 5 h of the dark period. The significance of stomata in flower induction was confirmed in experiments with abscisic acid (ABA), a plant hormone which regulates stomatal movements. Treating the cotyledons of plants with ABA at the 8th and 10th hour of the dark period, resulted in plants with about 50 % less flower buds than the control, however, this phytohormone had no effect on flowering when used before the subinductive dark period.
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Calcium, calcium ionophores, caffeine, flowering, Pharbitis nil, stomata
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Journal of Plant Physiology vol. 144 (4-5), 1994, pp. 562-568
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