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RESPONSE TO BORON DEFICIENCY: A COMPARISON WITH RESPONSES PRODUCED BY CHEMICAL METHODS OF RETARDING ROOT ELONGATION
Author(s) -
ROBERTSON G. A.,
LOUGHMAN B. C.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1974.tb01310.x
Subject(s) - auxin , kinetin , vicia faba , meristem , elongation , boron , chemistry , horticulture , phosphate , mitosis , colchicine , biochemistry , botany , biophysics , shoot , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , in vitro , organic chemistry , materials science , genetics , explant culture , ultimate tensile strength , metallurgy , gene
S ummary Seedlings of Vicia faba L. were subjected to treatments with IAA, 2,4‐D, tri‐iodobenzoic acid, kinetin, 2‐chloroethanephosphonic acid as well as those designed to prevent normal division in the primary meristem. Where division was inhibited with colchicine, trifluralin, dinitramine or surgical excision, a radial expansion of the root tip occurred. However, the anatomical aspects of the responses and their effects on phosphate absorption and incorporation were quite distinct from the effects produced in both boron deficiency and excess auxin treatments. Kinetin gave similar effects to mitotic inhibitors. The possibility that boron deficiency is associated with an excess level of endogenous auxin was examined. The effects of boron deficiency were compared with those associated with the presence of excess auxin.