The Stability of Conjugated Abscisic Acid during Wilting
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Experimental Botany
- Vol. 29 (5) , 1059-1066
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/29.5.1059
Abstract
Tomato and silverbeet shoots that had been fed (±)-[2-14C]abscisic acid (ABA) some days previously did not hydrolyse their alkali-saponifiable [14C]ABA fraction when they wilted. The content of alkali-saponifiable ABA in untreated plants did not fall on wilting so the endogenous conjugate is not hydrolysed either. In tomato and silverbeet, therefore, conjugation of ABA is irreversible.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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