The Correlation of Profiles of Surface pH and Elongation Growth in Maize Roots1
AUTOR(ES)
Peters, Winfried S.
FONTE
American Society of Plant Physiologists
RESUMO
High-resolution profiles of surface pH and growth along vertically growing maize (Zea mays) primary root tips were determined simultaneously by pH-sensitive microelectrodes and marking experiments. Methodological tests were carried out that proved the reliability of our kinematic growth analysis, while questioning the validity of an alternative technique employed previously. A distal acidic zone around the meristematic region and a proximal one around the elongation zone proper were detected. This pattern as such persisted irrespective of the bulk pH value. The proximal acidic region coincided with maximum relative elemental growth rates (REGR), and both characters reacted in a correlated manner to auxin and cyanide. The distal acidic band was unrelated to growth, but was abolished by cyanide treatment. We conclude that: (a) the pattern of surface pH as such is a regulated feature of growing root tips; (b) the correlation of extracellular pH and growth rate suggests a functional relationship only along proximal portions of the growing root tip; and (c) the distal acidic band is not caused by pH buffering by root cap mucilage, as suggested previously, but rather is controlled by cellular activity.
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