Cytokinin, acting through ethylene, restores gravitropism to Arabidopsis seedlings grown under red light.

AUTOR(ES)

Golan, A

RESUMO

Cytokinin replaces light in several aspects of the photomorphogenesis of dicot seedlings. Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings grown under red light have been shown to become disoriented, losing the negative hypocotyl gravitropism that has been observed in seedlings grown in darkness or white light. We report here that cytokinin at micromolar concentrations restores gravitropism to seedlings grown under red light. Cytokinin cancels the effect of red light on the gravity-sensing system and at the same time replaces light in the inhibition of hypocotyl elongation. Furthermore, application of the ethylene precursor 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid acts similarly to cytokinin. Cytokinin cannot restore gravitropism under red light to an ethylene-insensitive mutant that is defective at the EIN2 locus. Stimulation of ethylene production, therefore, can explain the action of cytokinin in restoring negative gravitropism to the hypocotyls of Arabidopsis seedlings grown under continuous red light.

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