Burst of Ethylene upon Horizontal Placement of Tomato Seedlings

1 August 1984

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology

Vol. 75 (4) , 1167-1169
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.75.4.1167

Abstract

Seedlings of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv Rutgers emit a pulse of ethylene during the first 2 to 4 minutes following horizontal placement. Because this burst appears too rapid and brief to be mediated by increase in net activity of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase, it might result from accelerated transformation of vacuolar 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid to ethylene.

Keywords

SEEDLINGS
CARBOXYLIC ACID
ESCULENTUM MILL
ACID SYNTHASE
AMINOCYCLOPROPANE
HORIZONTAL PLACEMENT
RUTGERS EMIT

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Rapid Production of Auxin-induced Ethylene
Plant Physiology, 1978