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Chenopodium rubrum plants, induced to flower by three cycles of 12 h darkness and 12 h light, produced 42% less ethylene than vegetative plants kept under continuous light. Plants that had each dark cycle broken by 2 h light in the middle did not flower and produced almost as much ethylene as the vegetative plants. Shoots and roots of plants of all three experimental treatments had a similar content of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC), the mean amounting to about 2 nmol · g−1 dry weight. Also the content of N-malonyl-ACC (MACC) was similar in shoots of all three treatments. MACC content in roots was shown to be much higher, especially in the treatments with three dark periods (about 85 nmol · g−1 dry weight). When labeled [2,3-14C] ACC was administered, the relative contents of ACC and MACC were very similar among all three treatments. The only process influenced by flower induction was ACC conversion to ethylene. Induced plants converted 36% less ACC than the vegetative ones. Plants subjected to night-break converted almost as much ACC to ethylene as vegetative plants. It is concluded that flower induction in the short-day plantChenopodium rubrum decreases ethylene production by decreasing their capability of converting ACC to ethylene.
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Macháčková, I., Ullmann, J., Krekule, J. et al. Ethylene production and metabolism of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid inChenopodium rubrum L. as influenced by photoperiodic flower induction. J Plant Growth Regul 7, 241–247 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02025266
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