PHYTOCHROME-MEDIATED PHOTOTROPISM AND DIFFERENT DICHROIC ORIENTATION OF Pr AND Pfr IN PROTONEMATA OF THE FERN ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS L. |
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Authors: | Akeo Kadota Masamitsu Wada Masaki Furuya |
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Institution: | Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan |
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Abstract: | Abstract— Single-celled protonemata of Adiantum capillus-veneris were cultured under continuous red light for 6 days and then in the dark for 15 h. Brief local exposure of a flank (5 times 20 /mi) of the subapical region of a protonema to a microbeam of red light effectively induced a phototropic response toward the irradiated side. The degree of the response was dependent upon the fluence of the red light. Red/far-red reversibility was typically observed in this photoreaction, showing that phytochrome was the photo-receptive pigment. When the flank was irradiated with a microbeam of linearly polarized red and far-red light, red light with an electrical vector parallel to the cell surface was most effective. However, the far-red light effect was most prominent when its electrical vector was normal to the cell surface. These polarized light effects indicate the different dichroic orientation of Pr (red-light-absorbing form of phytochrome) and Pr (far-red-light-absorbing form of phytochrome) at the cell flank. |
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