The action spectrum for maximal photosensitivity of germination |
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Authors: | K M Hartmann A Mollwo |
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Institution: | Universit?t Erlangen-Nürnberg, , Germany e-mail: karl.hartmann@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de Tel.: +49-9131-8528224 Fax: +49-9131-8528215, Institut für Botanik I, Staudtstra?e 5, 91058 Erlangen, DE
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Abstract: | Fruits of Garden Lettuce, imbibed in 0.01 M KNO3, were depleted of maternal active phytochrome B by saturating deep-red exposure and photosensitized by chilling for 1 week
at 4 °C. Twenty saturated fluence-response curves for photoinduced germination were elaborated between 300 and 800 nm, using
exposure periods from 6 to 600 s at 22.5 °C; there is linear and closely parallel regression in the logarithmic probability
net. The reciprocals of the half-response fluences obtained gave the apparent conversion spectrum of the controlling pigments
and this was corrected for the transmittance of the seed-coat. It is a phytochrome spectrum of P
r with photoconversion cross-sections of 1.2·109 and 4.5·103 m2 mol–1 at 666 and 800 nm, respectively. This means that for half-saturated germination of sensitized seed, fewer than 1 out of 200,000
phytochrome A molecules have to be photoconverted to P
fr, and no photo-reversibility by deep-red was found. Therefore, all spectral colours of nightly moon- or skylight should stimulate
the germination of sensitized weed seeds if they are exposed at the soil surface between sequential tillage operations.
Received: 28 April 2000 / Accepted in revised form: 28 July 2000 |
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